Archive for March, 2006

The Potent Power of Proposals

Neil Tortorella shares his view on the usefulness of proposal of getting projects, especially in design and consulting-oriented areas. Neil identifed 13 sections that worth to write about. They are:

1. Executive Summary
2. Current Situation
3. Project Goals
4. Competition
5. Audience
6. Creative & Marketing Strategies
7. Process
8. Fees & Reimbursements
9. Billing & Schedule
10. Conclusion
11. Company Overview
12. Clients
13. Awards

Very neat on separating into different sections. He puts all of the topics that customers would be… » Continue

March 31 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: document, proposal | no comments»

ROV Coaching: Gain Return on your Values

‘Values’ may be one of the most frequently used words we hear today, and yet bringing our values to the forefront of everything we do still does not happen as much as it should for our own good and well-being.

The ironic part about this is that we can’t turn them off; we don’t leave our values at work, or keep them only at home. Our values come with us wherever… » Continue

March 30 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: accomplishment, motivation, value | 4 comments»

20 of the all-time best hints for making household repairs

Al Carrell has a list of quick tips that you can use when you do your repair project for your house. It has tips for doors, windows, floors, and ceilings. Here is a taste for some doors repair tips:

An Easy Way to Sand
If a door is dragging on the floor or threshold–making
scraping sounds-place sandpaper on top of a stack of magazines and
position the pile under… » Continue

March 30 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: house, repair | no comments»

Getting out from under

Ellen McGirt of Fortune magazine editor has done an article on how today’s technology can overload and interrupt your work and flow. She gave some great stats and stories of information technology overload. Interesting but I will let you to read them yourself. The section that catches me is the practical tips that she mentioned at the end of the article:

Keep your meetings rare.
Show your technology who’s boss.
Give yourself a

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March 30 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Productivity | no comments»

30 Disposable Email Services

Many times you need an email address to register an account online but you don’t want to get spammed - What should you do? There are services called Disposable Email Services, which they provide you a temporary email address for register accounts. The emails will be forwarded to your real address. This way you do not need to exposure your real address, so you will be worry free on spam.

Listible… » Continue

March 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: email, service, spam | 3 comments»

Quick Excel Tips and Techniques

At Contextures, they have a list of tips for Excel. Many tips should get you resolve your work, and your personal life that involves spreadsheet. Things like AutoFilter, functions, comments, data vaildation, pivot tables and so on.

Excel Tips and Techniques - [Contexture]… » Continue

March 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: software, tips | no comments»

10 rules to manage your boss

Boss management - an unusal term but sometimes it is true that you need to give your boss a hand and to be more proactive on managing yourself, and your boss. Jacques Horovitz has 10 rules on how to manage your boss, in order to be more effective, faster in actions and gain trust:

Decisions: If you do not want a ‘no’ or procrastination, give him/her a hand
Manage her time: You

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March 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: managememt | 3 comments»

Pouring Ketchup Technique

Okay, I just like how Internet has varies topic for life - including a how-to guide on pouring ketchup (or tomato sauce)! Robert Allgeyer shows what are the right and wrong ways of pouring the ketchup - guess what? The traditional, holding the bottle upside down, and tapping the bottom is not the most effective way to pour the ketchup. The most effective way is to hold it side way… » Continue

March 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: food, Lifehack | 6 comments»

Be smarter at work, slack off

Anne Fisher, Fortune senior writer has an article talking about why ‘less is more’. The main point to note in the article: when human brain is tired and stressed out, it becomes harder to come up with new ideas. It is suggested that sometimes it is good to spend some time to rewind, and look for connections between ideas:

…What scientists have only recently begun to realize is that people may… » Continue

March 28 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: idea, overwork, Productivity | 3 comments»

Is Getting Less Sleep Better Than using Sleeping Pill?

There are beliefs that getting more sleep can improve health, and hence one encounters sleeping disorder, people may think there are needs to take sleeping pills. But now there are study to show more sleep does not improve your health, and taking sleeping pills will definitely increase some risks of your health:

Still, more sleep is no guarantee for overall health, and more sleeping pills might not bring it on either.

A… » Continue

March 28 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: health, sleep | 6 comments»

More evidence of green tea’s brain benefits

Further study shows that green tea can improve reference and working memory-related learning ability, reported by Nutra Ingredients. Abdul Haque from Shimane University Faculty of Medicine studies this improvement from rats through study its learning ability through radial maze:

… The new study, published in the April issue of the Journal of Nutrition (Vol. 136, pp. 1043-1047), reports the effects of green tea extracts in the form of Mitsui Norin’s commercial… » Continue

March 28 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: drink | no comments»

The Simplest Path to Success

Too many of us swallow the prevailing myths of our society: that our problems all lie outside ourselves; and we have to spend time getting our minds and emotions in order—or motivating ourselves—before we can tackle the problems in our lives. Believe either of them and you’ll never advance much beyond where you are today. Here’s the truth. » Continue

March 27 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, behavior, motivation, success | 23 comments»

Free Personal Development Toolkit

At Life Tools, they provide a free personal development toolkit to assist you with tips and tricks for your life. Covered areas such as missions and goals, time management, stress management, relationships, behavior & attitude, managing fear, decision making, finances, personal safety and career. You can download all of the life tools techniques in one PDF (link at the first paragraph), or browse different topics and download a separate… » Continue

March 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: life, pdf, tips | 1 comment»

Unskilled and Unaware of It

Alan Bellows has noted an interesting phenomenon - average person tends to believe he or she is better than average. Alan highlights two men’s predictions on their investigation and those predictions are well proved by their study:

Justin Kruger and David Dunning made the following predictions before beginning their investigation:

1. Incompetent individuals, compared with their more competent peers, will dramatically overestimate their ability and performance relative to objective… » Continue

March 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: competence, smart | 2 comments»

How to Have a 36 Hour Day

The title is kind of catchy, but that’s what Jon Bischke has named his blog entry. Jon won’t teach you on how to increase your daily given time from 24 hours to 36 hours, but instead he has a bunch of tips that save you time throughout the day. There are different areas of his 36 hours strategies: