Archive for October, 2006

Your Perception IS Your Reality

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” - Albert Einstein

“Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.” - Douglas Adams

Take a minute to scan your surroundings. Are you in a familiar place or somewhere new? Stop reading this, and just… » Continue

October 31 2006 | By Tony | Tagged: mind, perception, reality | 6 comments»

10 Interview Bloopers

You may be good at what you do, but still you have to make a good impression in the interview to score the job. Interviewers look for your performance in the interview for comparison among candidates.

Deborah Walker at QuintCareers has listed top 10 interview blunders - try to avoid those are you are one step closer to get the job:

Poor handshake
Talking too much
Talking negatively about current or past employers/managers
Showing up

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October 31 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Communication, interview | 4 comments»

Download: Microsoft Office Accounting Express

There is a new product called Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 (long name, and yes MS Windows only), which allows small business to handle many aspects related to finance from one application. The most interesting integration that I see with this software is with the eBay and PayPal, which you can track sales activity and handle PayPal invoices easier.

Best of all - It is available for free:

Microsoft® Office Accounting… » Continue

October 31 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: accounting, software | 9 comments»

How to Have Better Conversations

In my opinion, it is hard to get a good conversation sometimes, because conversation involves more than yourself - both parties need to be aware of the pitfalls and work together to make the conversation enjoyable.

A way to improve it is to send the following article to your friend. Marcus Vorwaller at Best Tool For the Job has a good article on how to have better conversations. Marcus first analyzes… » Continue

October 30 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Communication, conversation | 1 comment»

88 Tips for Succeeding in College

For people who are currently attending college, you may find it is quite different to your high school life - the expectation, life and study style are new to you. OEDb has gathered 88 tips on every common aspects of students may find problem on their early college life and make them to excel quicker. It covers number of categories: Seize the Day, Class and Note Taking, Studying, Test Taking… » Continue

October 30 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: college, student, studying | 9 comments»

List of Free Software for Microsoft Office

If you are a Microsoft Office users, this resource is quite useful for you. The blog The Road to Know Where consolidates a list of over 150 pieces of free software, add-ins and templates for Microsoft Office. It covers Office system, Access, Excel, Frontpage, OneNote, Outlook, Powerpoint, Project, Visio, and Word.

Ultimate List of Free Office Software from Microsoft - [The Road to Know Where]… » Continue

October 30 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: office, software | 2 comments»

Focusing on What Matters (and Ignoring What Does Not)

As I look back at this week’s postings on Slow Leadership, I notice that most of them were concerned with helping people stop wasting their time and energy on fruitless endeavors.

Take the first post, entitled: To Succeed, First Forget About Leadership Technique. In it, I argued that belief that success—in just about any business or leadership —comes from one simple source (applying the correct “leadership technique), is both… » Continue

October 30 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: civilized-work, decision-making, firstthingsfirst, freedom, Hamburger-Management, lifebalance, Lifehack, Management, overwork, prioritization, problem, problemsolving, technique, timemanagement, work-life, work/life-balance, working, worklife | 1 comment»

Get Rid of Your Clutter!

Some of the most tedious tasks that we need to do at times is to sift through all the paper, bills and faxes that we accumulate over time. This chore that throws itself on ourselves is a time guzzler that we can all gladly do without. The endless slips of paper that we gather around us pile up day after day to become unending ream of paper that one… » Continue

October 27 2006 | By Vishal | Tagged: clutter, timemanagement | 5 comments»

Improve your resume layout

Chanpory Rith at LifeClever gives 4 steps to improve your resume into more elegant. The result speaks for itself:

The facelift will not take you 10 minutes to complete, and as you see, the improvement are huge. He recommends:

Pick a better typeface
Remove extra indentations
Make it easy to skim
Apply typographic detailing

The best moves in my opinion are using gray color for text of dates and locations, and also adding horizontal rules… » Continue

October 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: improvement, resume | 6 comments»

An Analog Clock that links to Google Calendar

I want one. Ambient Clock has the cool factor - It is a new clock design (not yet manufactured) that syncs with Google Calendar.

Eager to try it out? No problem. It has an online version now for your Google Personalized Homepage where you can try it out now online. Now that’s an innovation - develop a web application to test for a real product market.

If you like… » Continue

October 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: clock, hardware | 7 comments»

Open Wider

Starbucks doesn’t sell coffee. They create an experience with an environment, complete with accessories, lifestyle choices, and culture.

Home Depot isn’t a hardware store. It’s a solution to your improvement projects, a trusted resource for your redecorating needs, and a supplier for your new home.

There are dozens more cases that come right to mind. If you twist my arm, I’ll list many more. But the point I’m illustrating is this… » Continue

October 26 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: career, motivation, self-improvement | 4 comments»

Why work?

Imagine something with me for a moment. You are unbelievably wealthy and debt-free. You don’t have to work for the income it brings you, but still, you do work. Because you aren’t concerned with the amount of your paycheck, you are able to choose the work you want to do for the pure joy and pleasure of it. What would you choose? What would you do?

Do you have an answer… » Continue

October 26 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: intention, joy, motivation, passion, purpose, value, work, worth | 20 comments»

Free eBook: Getting Real

Getting Real by 37signals is an ebook that I bought it when it releases. It consists a bunch of essays to create and manage a better software company.

Based on 37signals’ software design philosophy, it forces you to think again on your business and development model:

Getting Real delivers better results because it forces you to deal with the actual problems you’re trying to solve instead of your ideas about those… » Continue

October 26 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: business, Management, software | 7 comments»

How to take a better photograph

By looking at Kelly Abbott’s photos at Dandelife company blog, I can say they are pretty impressive.

The article introduces number of ways to take some great photos, even if you only have your cheap camera. Shoot from hip, no flash, and I especially like the tip on photograph kids:

As an adult it’s always a challenge to photograph kids. Here’s a couple of things to keep in mind. Kids love it… » Continue

October 26 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: photograph | 1 comment»

Super Glue

A short while back I did a series of articles on the greatest tools of all time. The response was pretty fair. But, it has come to my attention that I may have left out one tool that may be the greatest of all.

Ladies and gentlemen I give you Cyanoacrylate. CA to closest friends.

Super glue is so strong that a single square inch bond can life a ton of weight.

Here… » Continue

October 26 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: enjoyment, fun | 6 comments»

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