Archive for August, 2007

15 Quick Ways to Give Value and Make a Positive Impression

Making a positive impression on someone you met through a networking event or online need not be a difficult or use much of your time or resources. The following 15 quick ways to make a positive impression are designed to be easy to implement and most only take a few minutes to do, depending on where you are at.

The list is geared toward network-savvy professionals, especially those who are… » Continue

August 31 2007 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: impression, networking, value | 13 comments»

Holding It All Together On the Go

This week marks the beginning of the Fall semester for me, and as usual, I have a crazy schedule. I thought I might share some of the things I do to manage the frenzy that the life of an adjunct can be, in the hopes that it might give you some ideas about how to deal with the craziness of your own schedule.

First, some background. I’m an adjunct… » Continue

August 31 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: adjunct, computer, mobility, office, Productivity, routine, schedule, working | 14 comments»

How Ice Cube Trays Will Save You Money

I had to laugh: this article is entitled, Ice Cube Trays: Your Passport to Huge Savings. Apparently using your ice cube tray to store and freeze left over food items could save you a lot of money.

This is a pretty neat idea for the more thrifty readers. I’ve always found that little bit of left over sauce isn’t worth keeping. Could this attitude change?

Soup Stock: Chicken, beef, vegetable… » Continue

August 31 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: kitchen | 8 comments»

5 Ways To Better Manage Your Virtual Team

At times managing a team project via the internet can be difficult. What kinds of things do you focus on and what do you sacrifice?

These five tips to managing a group of people working on a project could put you on the right path.

Personalize your creative brief. I’ll be honest, I don’t know what the common industry practice is around the use of creative briefs. But in my… » Continue

August 31 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: people, team | 2 comments»

Master The Simple Science of Positive Thinking!

Just by simply spending some effort and time, staying positive every day can be easily achieved. All that is required is a fraction of your time, 10-15 minutes a day to cultivate the positive you! But first, what is really positive thinking? Do you have to be in an upbeat, cheerful and enthusiastic mood all day to be positive minded? No. Positive thinking simply means the absence of negative… » Continue

August 31 2007 | By George | Tagged: affrimation, mind, positive, subconscious, thinking | 14 comments»

Create A Cubicle Door

I’ve never worked in a cubicle, so please excuse my ignorance on the subject. There’s a site that manufactures cubicle doors called CubeDoors.

It’s a retractable screen that you stretch over the opening of your cubicle much like a sideways projector screen. Not a bad idea, I thought.

Having an indicator to when you are not available is pretty important. Especially when you don’t have any doors! Closing things up… » Continue

August 30 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: workplace | 30 comments»

A Huge List Of Personal Development Sites

Priscilla Palmer has put together this massive list of personal development websites. As usual you can check the comments for more.

The list isn’t categorized, which is a shame, and mentions Lifehack.org as a collaborative site. It would be nice to have a list that divides sites into focus. For instance General, GTD, etc.

In any case, great list!

Personal Development List - [PriscillaPalmer]… » Continue

August 30 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: personaldevelopment, web | 8 comments»

Why You Should Plan Your Week This Friday

Ihateyourjob.com has 3 simple reasons why doing your following week’s planning on the Friday afternoon works best.

1. Bring closure to the week.

2. You can relax all the way through Sunday evening.

3. Avoid getting behind on Monday.

Read the post to get a breakdown of each idea.

3 Reasons to Plan Your Week On Friday Afternoon - [IHateYourJob]

Some ideas:

One thing that you may find is a negative to this line… » Continue

August 30 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: planning | 3 comments»

Communication 101

A commenter on my blog sent me this little morsel:
A project manager was running a piece of work with a geographically dispersed team. The team leader was tasked with communicating some bad news to the team members in another city, so he phoned them all and had a conversation with them.

A couple of weeks later, during a tele-conference with the whole team, this piece of bad news was raised. There… » Continue

August 30 2007 | By Rowan | Tagged: attitude, clarity, Communication, empathy, listening | 5 comments»

Nine Tips to Productive Revision

Without a doubt, revision is the most tedious, irritating, necessary task involved in writing well. The act of taking a finished piece of work, tearing it apart, and rebuilding it is a process that some writers think waste too much time to be worth the process. Nevertheless, writing a piece perfectly on the first try is an extremely rare occasion.

Rather than worrying about whether or not revision is necessary… » Continue

August 30 2007 | By Rory | Tagged: revision, writing | 10 comments»

You: The Science Experiment

I don’t expect you’ll be drinking mystery potions or hooking yourself up to a car battery anytime soon. But conducting personal experiments are probably the best way to find answers. By actually testing (instead of assuming) your habits, beliefs, methods and systems you can make real improvements.

Stop Theorizing, Look at Results

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in his book The Black Swan, recommends against using complex theories if they… » Continue

August 30 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: experiment, habit, science, test, theory | 4 comments»

How to Find Time for Yourself

Do you ever find yourself longing for some time for yourself? Many of us are so busy with work, school, and home life that often there is no time left over to do something that you enjoy. What follows are some ways to carve out that essential time you need to slow down, enjoy life, and rejuvenate yourself.

Scheduling Time with Yourself

1. Evenings with Yourself. Try to… » Continue

August 29 2007 | By K. | Tagged: personal, Productivity, rejuvenate, time | 21 comments»

Sticky Ideas Workshop (Part 5): Emotional

If you want to connect — I mean, really connect — with an audience, you have to hit ‘em square in their emotions. Movie makers know this, and exploit it to the fullest, making us laugh, cry, punch the air in triumph, jump out of our seats in terror, and even swell with love for all humanity — almost on demand.

A lot of times this is pretty cheap… » Continue

August 29 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: emotion, ideas, madetostick, malcolmgladwell, psychology, tippingpoint | 4 comments»

5 Things You Don’t Want To Know About Self-Improvement

There’s an odd stigma attached to ’self-improvement’. Usually associated with quick-fixes and Tony Robbins. However, the fundamental basics of self-improvement - improving one’s self - is something that I think does a lot of good for people.

One thing that I think should become common knowledge is how ’self-help’ can work in different ways for different people. No one thing works the same for everybody, so you must get used… » Continue

August 28 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: self-improvement | 6 comments»

25 Tips For Workplace Happiness

Want to try a few new things at work that’ll make for a happier and more productive day? Take a look at these 25 tips to doing just that.

Turn off Your Computer. “What?!” you say. “Everything is done on my computer!” Well is it really? What percentage truly is? Plan to have your computer on only for that amount of time each day. Plan out blocks of time for… » Continue

August 28 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: Productivity, workplace | 6 comments»

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