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Do you need to read more but find you don’t have enough time? Welcome to the club. I’ve been falling way behind in my reading, particularly business books, and have found it difficult to catch up. There are so many good business books being released that it’s impossible to pick the right ones let alone [...]
Read more... Read more with book summaries
have you ever tried to explain something verbally or written that would be faster and easier with a screen capture or even a short video? It’s easy to do with Jing, the free screen capture and screen recording software from Techsmith. Here’s a short video that shows you how it works and how to get [...]
Read more... Get your point across faster with Jing
If you’ve listened to even a little of my training you know I harp about the evils perils of attempting to multitask. You can’t actually do two things at once you can only switch quickly between them, "switchtasking" it’s been called. I won’t repeat myself here, but I will refer you to an excellent discussion [...]
Read more... Multitasking is a Myth – Here’s a good resource
Automated message alerts in e-mail software and cell phones interrupt your concentration than you think. Fortunately you have the ability to disable them. Earlier this week I promised to show you how to disable the message alert lights and alarms for several popular software tools and smart phones. This by no means an exhaustive list [...]
Read more... How To Deactivate Message Alerts
It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a post about gratitude. I saw a speaker the other day who said that scientific studies about happiness revealed that the the key is gratitude. I think she’s right. If we focus our energy on the good things in our lives then we use less on the not so good. [...]
Read more... Gratitude with an Edge
My wife and I have discussed joining Weight Watchers for the past several months. She’s in great shape and doesn’t need it, but I love to eat and it was time for some moderation. We signed up over the weekend and I began to use Weight Watchers’ online tracking program. You use it to plug [...]
Read more... Watch Your Calories – Track Your Time
I’ve been on a quest this week to find new ideas and thoughts about keeping things simple. I found some pretty cool stuff when searching the net so I thought I’d share a few of the good ones with you. These are in no particular order. Marketing blogger Andy Sernovitz kept it simple with a [...]
Read more... Roundup of Keeping Things Simple