Tag Archive | productivity

Your Key To Success – Win Your Morning, Win Your Day

Oct18
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Do you go to bed at night with good intentions of starting your day off better tomorrow?

But then when the alarm goes off, you hit snooze again and again?

When you get up you’re in a rush and you’re grouchy because you’re late.

Then you yell at the kids and feel bad about that. You can’t find your car keys and that adds to your frustration.

Several blocks away from home you realize you left your mobile phone behind and have to turn around to get it, which makes you even later and more grouchy.

By the time you get to work, you’re late, exhausted, and have a bad attitude.

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Six Things To Do Instead of Multi-task

Feb17

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It’s a myth that multi-tasking is the answer to getting more done in the same number of hours. And it’s actually creating habits that cause you to mismanage time.

Although, some people can juggle a phone call and typing a report at the same time, don’t think that if you do three things at once, you’re being more productive.

Actually, you create more potential for making mistakes because your attention is divided in several ways. Nothing muddles time management worse than trying to multi-task.

The human body and mind have limits and those limits cannot be extended by multi-tasking. Rather than depend on multi-tasking as your strategy, look again at some of the tried and true time management principles.

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Spelling Sets You Apart As a Writer

Nov9

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Grammarly Writing Support at www.xtreme-assistant.comComputer spell check software is great, but it sometimes doesn’t inform you to a misspelled word. And, you might be spelling a word correctly, but it isn’t the word that you should be using in the context of the sentence.

For example, what if you wrote this sentence with a typo in it:  He tackled the breast and killed it. Well obviously, you didn’t mean to put that R in there – it should have said, He tackled the beast and killed it.

But spell check wouldn’t catch it because they’re both words and both spelled properly. But one isn’t correct and it could cause you a lot of embarrassment. So you can’t rely on spell check to save you.

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5 Reasons Why Your Business Should Go Remote

Oct4

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Remote work is becoming the new nine to five. Between gadgets, teams, clients, and everything in between, mobile technology is making it super easy to go remote.

According to Global Workplace Analytics, employees are not at their desk 50-60% of the time. Today most work can be done at a beach-side café with an internet connection while sipping on a hot cup of joe.

So why not adopt a flexible work-from-anywhere culture? Studies prove that going remote isn’t exactly a terrible idea. Here are five reasons why your business should go remote:

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How To Have A More Effective Business Meeting

Sep12
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A lot of business meetings are considered to be unproductive and a waste of time.

About 40% of meetings actually. But some are worse than others.

I’m sure at some point you’ve attended a bad business meeting.

What defines a “bad” business meeting?

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