Boost Your Income by Boosting Your Attitude Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. – W.C. Fields A positive attitude energizes work and study, stimulating creativity. Boosting your attitude on a daily basis will [...]
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The Power of the To-Do List
Time is money. As a business owner, or manager, in order to be competitive today, you must quickly learn to sort through the multitude of tasks facing you each day and narrow down to only the key revenue-generating activities, while letting the majority of the “noise” fade away. How you work and your effectiveness in [...]
Work, Life, and the Butterfly Effect
How does the Chaos Theory and the Butterfly Effect apply to our lives? Can implementing these principles improve personal and organizational performance? Most people have heard of Chaos Theory and the Butterfly Effect, the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings over the Atlantic can cause hurricanes in Florida. A huge, dynamic system, like the [...]
Seven Steps to Simplifying Your Life
Demands and deadlines are an inherent characteristic of modern life, often leading to an unsustainable work-life balance. Success may aid an affluent lifestyle, yet it is often at the expense of healthy well-being. Simplifying areas of your life can seem impossible, particularly when demands upon your time and expertise is great. These Seven Steps to [...]
Will Creative Thinking Make You More Successful?
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs In our knowledge-driven economy, creative thinkers excel. They have learned the art of managing their thought processes in a productive way. Creative thinkers are the pioneers and problem solvers in their chosen fields. Creative thinkers are constantly expanding their mental horizon, which helps them [...]
Making Your Workplace More FUN: FUNdamentals
Making Your Workplace More FUN: FUNdamentals “Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.” – Mikhail Baryshnikov Internationally respected leadership expert, speaker, and author Dr. John C. Maxwell once said: “When you are truly having fun in your work, creativity flows freely.” Yet, how many of us really have fun in our workplace? Successful people, and [...]
How to Get Your Emails Read
How to Get Your Emails Read Emails are the backbone of the internet, speeding up communication and changing the way that we do business. Whether you are dealing with someone on the other side of the planet, or you need to send a message to a colleague in the next office, email is a quick [...]
Working Smarter: 22 Proven Time-Saving Tips
Working Smarter: 22 Proven Time-Saving Tips “You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.” – Brian Tracy Are you putting in extra hours at the office, or spending an hour [...]
Is Multitasking Making You Stupid?
“To do two things at once is to do neither.” – Publilius Syrus, Roman slave, first century B.C. 7 “94% of all failure is due to the system, not the person.” – W. Edwards Deming The ability to multi-task is something that managers are increasingly having to display. This talent, however, is not something that [...]
Got Goals?
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra Are you like most people who make New Year’s resolutions? You may recall that you set some New Year’s resolutions last year. . .but they were long forgotten. Or perhaps, you didn’t set any new goals to achieve this [...]
How to Reduce the Stress of MultiTasking
One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.” – Malcolm S. Forbes In the modern workplace, it is impossible to completely avoid having to multi-task, but a few simple measures can lessen the effects. A little organization and planning helps a lot. 1. Focus on your goals and objectives – [...]
Success Tips: Your First 90 Days
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, [...]
7 Steps to Becoming a High Performer
7 Steps to Becoming a High Performer What is a high performer? — A self-starter who takes the initiative to “make things happen.” High performers deliver results consistently. They initiate new projects and make improvements, and “make things happen.” When you earn a reputation as a high performer, you increase your value and become recognized [...]
Strategies for Success During a Recession
“The purpose of a business should be to cultivate a following of customers.” – Peter Drucker How will you, your business, your employees, or your employer survive the recession? Is it possible to emerge from the recession ahead of your competitor? What should you focus on? Here are a few ideas to help you, [...]
How to Eliminate 50% of Your Work with the 80-20 Rule
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.” – Ancient Chinese Proverb What is the 80-20 Rule? In 1906 the Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto, constructed a mathematical formula to describe the distribution of wealth in his country – that 20% of the people owned 80% of [...]