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...

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 about the subject that took place on the Marketing Online Live podcast a few weeks ago.  This...

New membership site development service – WishList Master. Since we began to offer our online Outlook program I’ve received a number of inquires about how we made it happen.  It seems many of our readers have produced content like  training, articles, coaching or consulting services that  lend themselves to online deliver Here’s a quick explanation how our system is put together. Workload Master is a very special kind...

When you begin to think of your time as an asset (like money) you begin to think differently about how you are using it. Try to apply common money terminology to determine if we are making the best use of yours. First a major distinction. You can always get more money (or any other resource for that matter). But you can never get any more time. You get what you get and that’s it. Invest…Spend….Waste We tend to use the...

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. - Alan Saporta During physical activity, your mind is stimulated and potentially very  creative; yet few people take full advantage of this opportunity. Use the time you spend doing physical work or exercising to come up with new ideas or resolve problems. When you do come up with solution ideas immediately pause to jot them down. So don’t just “zone out” when doing...

Just before the holidays I used Survey Monkey to conduct a time management survey among people who work form home. Since then many of the participants asked to see the results, so please accept my apologies for the delay. However it took this long to get enough responses. My objective going into this was to determine the market potential for a home-based specific time management course. For that reason can’t share the results of...

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age. - Albert Einstein When is “good enough”, good enough? That’s a question that haunts many of us. Perfectionism, while important in brain surgery, can become a roadblock. One of the best examples of “good enough” is the MP3 audio file format. It delivers less that perfect fidelity, but because of its ability to compress...