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How to Get Into Deep Focus at Work
Deep focus at work doesn't happen because you decided to concentrate harder. It happens because you set the right conditions. Your environment, your…
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Emails $1.00 each
Thanks! Okay. Got it! Thought this might interest you. If you had to pay a $1.00 every time you sent an email, how much would that cut down on unnecessary garbage? I’ve written many times about how I don’t like receiving Thanks! and Okay as acknowledgments (sincerely…
Meeting and Networking Vacations
Do you fill your time with networking events, luncheons, happy hours and meetings in the name of building your business? Is Overwhelm or Busy a word in your everyday vocabulary? Discrimination can be a healthy word. One of my clients is a networking queen. She attends…
Is your work also your hobby?
Do you choose to work instead of reading, running, watching movies or playing games? Do your friends or family say that you spend too much time working? Can your work be your hobby when you really love what you do? When I first started my company, it was called…
Huatulco Health and Productivity Intensive Retreat
January 31 – February 14, I spent two glorious weeks on a working vacation as a client intensive retreat in Huatulco, Mexico. Some people may think that is an oxymoron, but it worked well for me, my business didn’t suffer, I made money and had a ton of time for playing. I was at the Secrets Resort, which is gorgeous. The town is only 10,000 people so it isn’t touristy yet and is safe to visit and walk around.
Teach People How You Work From the Start
A couple of my clients have recently started new positions and are developing their habits with a new company culture. Both clients thought they should work like everyone else is working, and then later slowly ease back into the good habits that they had formed before…
When Good Enough Beats Perfection
Do you spend hours researching something to save a few bucks? Do you craft and recraft that perfect email to send that will just be skimmed by the reader? Break free of perfection and embrace good enough. I used to have some perfectionistic qualities, whether it was…
Multitasking, Switchtasking, Background Tasking or Hypertasking
Would you rather listen instead? Click here for a the 7-minute audio recording Multitasking, Switchtasking, Background Tasking, or Hypertasking. Which are you guilty of? Do you work at a company that still uses multitasker as a quality that they want in an employee?…
How to be Safe in a Hotel
Have you ever left something in a hotel, never to be found again?
Have you ever been awakened in the middle of the night by a stranger trying to get in your door?
Tips to protect yourself, stay safe and be smart in a hotel.
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