Jack Canfield, in chapter 6 of The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, admonishes us to become “inverse paranoids.” If you’ve ever known anyone with paranoid tendencies, you know that no matter what someone says or does, this person will be suspicious of their motives. Becoming an “inverse paranoid” means we begin to assume that the… » Continue
January 31 2006 | By Barbara | Tagged: attitude, life, paranoid | 2 comments»
FastCompany has an article on working in cubicle. Some people think cubicle is good for communication, other thinks office is better for concentration. What is the best way? Well there are no best ways, but the article touches base on some issues and solutions behind cubicle and office design:
… The solution, Tompkin says, is to customize space to various types of work. Give those who need uninterrupted time a quiet… » Continue
January 31 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Management, office | 1 comment»
There is an interesting article of a young retired person who talks about the joys, challenges, and some practical aspects. It is interesting to see there are so many challenges and issues one will face when retried. Couple of areas that the author has touched are:
January 31 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Money, retiring, time | no comments»
The doorway to real change isn’t open often, so the times when it is (those “teachable moments”) are too precious to waste. Here’s how to use them to the full. » Continue
January 30 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, brainstorm, change, creativity, idea | 1 comment»
When young people are first starting out in life, either as college students or young workers, debt looks like an easy solution to the shortage of money that seems to go with this period of life. It’s only a temporary fix, however, and will set a person back in the long run. Suze Orman, in The Courage to Be Rich, points out the outrageous amount of money that… » Continue
January 30 2006 | By Barbara | Tagged: debt, finance, Management, Money | 8 comments»
Over at ActiveHowto.com, they have a quick howto on tweaking Windows’ default setting to improve your computer performance. Most of the tips there are pretty simple to perform, to disable some unnecessary services or remove some eye candy features. For instance, this one is quite useful to increase the shutdown speed:
IMPROVE XP SHUTDOWN SPEED
This tweak reduces the time XP waits before automatically closing any running programs when you give it… » Continue
January 30 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: software, tips, windows | 2 comments»
Where do you want to be 5 years from now, 10 years from now, or even this time next year? These places are your goal destinations and although you might know that you don’t want to be standing still in the same place as you are now, it’s not always easy to identify what your real goals are.
Many people think that setting a goal destination is having… » Continue
January 27 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: destination, goal, motivation, planning, step | 14 comments»
TrueCrypt is a free open source which allows you to encrypt your disk. This is really useful for securing your USB thumbdrive as you wouldn’t want your documents and datas exposed to third party when it got stolen or lost. Main features are:
January 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: software, usb | 4 comments»
“Anything worth having is worth working for. Persistence is often the defining quality between those who fail and those who succeed.”
—On Ho‘omau, the Hawaiian value of persistence and perseverance, in Managing with Aloha, Bringing Hawaii’s Universal Values to the Art of Business
Persistence is one of those work qualities that we universally value in business. We believe that the obstacles which test us can actually make us stronger. However I have… » Continue
January 26 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: decision, Management, persistence | 4 comments»
One of the seventeen principles of success in the book Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude by Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone is that of “inspirational discontentment.” The idea is that a person needs to be just discontented enough with his or her income or standard of living that it inspires them to greater success. At first glance there is a lot of logic in this statement… » Continue
January 26 2006 | By Barbara | Tagged: discontentment, inspiration, success | 1 comment»
Alexander Davidson at Times Online has posted an article on some important aspects and definitions on financial. It should give you enough special terms to understand financial pages in the newspaper. Pretty useful:
… Business-to-consumer
This describes a business model where the company provides goods or services directly to the public. Within e-commerce, it is the least proven model. This type of internet company must buy items from producers and store them… » Continue
January 26 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: definition, finance, Money | no comments»
In entrepreneurship, it is not the end of the world if you cannot get venture capital. Without any funds from venture capital, you still could launch your product or services by bootstrapping your business. Guy Kawasaki has posted an article called The Art of Bootstrapping which talks this exact topic - how to pull off a sucessful bootstrapping business:
January 26 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: business, entrepreneurship | no comments»
Whether we’re webmasters, bloggers, or just students, we want our writing to be the best it can be. This is particularly true when writing about persuasive essay topics. The whole reason for writing the persuasive essay is to change someone’s mind about something. Hopefully, we have chosen a topic about which we feel passionately. When taking a test or writing for school, however, we may find… » Continue
January 25 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: blog, online, student, writing | 5 comments»
During K.G. Schneider’s study, she tries to improve her writing by learning from other writers, such as teachers and other students. She came up with 18 things that she has learned from others on writing:
January 25 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: tips, writing | 8 comments»
There is a service called Jabphone which allows you to connect to any phone by using Jabber Instant Messaging System with Jingle audio support (such as Google Talk). Normally it charges with good rates but they give 15 minutes of free time for any new account. So give it a try.
Every new account is credited with approximately 15 minutes of free calling time (when calling the USA -… » Continue
January 25 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: phone, software | 5 comments»
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