Improving personal finances is the number five New Year’s Resolution. When you’re worried about money, either now or for your future, it makes it hard to relax and enjoy your life. The sooner you get a hold of your financial health, the sooner you’ll be able to live your life in a more meaningful way.
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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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We become what we think. This quote has been proven over and over again.
If we perceive something bad is going to happen to us, many times it does.
On the contrary, if we believe something good is going to happen, this often becomes true as well.
Science has affirmed the link between positive affect and its impact on an individual’s motivation and performance.
If we expect the best or we expect the worst, we’re usually not disappointed. Each time we perceive a positive thought, it increases our own perceptions of positive expectancy.
For motivation to last, it requires constant thinking with daily positive reinforcement.
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Whether you are shopping in your neighborhood or from the comfort of your home, be sure to keep your information protected. Identity theft and fraudulent transactions can affect your credit rating and finances.
You have lots to do this holiday season. Let’s not make solving an identity theft problem one of them! Follow these tips to help you stay protected: Continue reading
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Computer 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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