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The World’s Best Frozen Margarita Recipe

It’s the weekend!

Put those quick recipes aside for a moment and relax with an ice cold beverage. Take the time…you’ve earned it.

My drink of choice is the frozen margarita. I’ve been drinking them for years and I’ve put that experience to good use; I have come up with the perfect recipe. This is an awesome drink to have at the end of a hard week at the office. Here, ladies and gentlemen, is my frozen margarita recipe:

Pour the following ingredients into a blender.

3 ounces of your favorite tequila. I swear by Jose Cuervo Gold.
1 ounce of your favorite triple sec.
1 ounce of Grand Marnier.
1 ounce of Rose’s Lime Juice.
The juice of one fresh lime.
Load up with ice.

Run your blender until the liquid is a frothy mixture. Make sure you add enough ice so that there is a decent thickness to the liquid. Slice a small wedge of lime and coat the rim of your margarita glass with the juice. Pour some sea salt onto a dish and place the glass upside down so that the salt adheres to the glass rim. When your drink is through blending, pour into the glass and enjoy!

I believe that this will be the best margarita you have ever tasted. Take it from what my friends call me: Margarita Man. Click Here to Read Article …

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4 Simple Steps for Letting Go of Stress

Sarah Nagel 17th July General Leave a Comment

We’re always on our way somewhere else. We hustle to get to work. Once we’re at work, we make mental to-do lists for chores we have to get done at home. When we make it back home, we’re often too exhausted to spend much time finishing up that to-do list. Instead, we mull over all the big projects coming up at work. The habit of constantly looking ahead to the next thing becomes a cycle of worry and stress that prevents us from appreciating the only thing we really have control over: the present moment.

Focusing on the present moment is the key for letting go of stress you’ve been carrying around. Instead of worrying about everything in your life, you can zone in on the task at hand. And often that task is a lot simpler than you may have thought. Once you get absorbed in what you’re doing, work can feel so much more satisfying. Instead of resisting and struggling, you become engaged, alert and involved.

Here are a few simple tips to help you find that sense of focus and increase your present moment awareness. Click Here to Read Article …

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Do You Have Low Frustration Tolerance?

Peter North 16th July Office Life Leave a Comment

Psychologist Albert Ellis developed the concept of “Low Frustration Tolerance” (LFT) as part of a greater theory on procrastination as it relates to cognitive behavior.

LFT is a peculiar form of self-defeating behavior. By habitually avoiding short-term frustrations, unaddressed issues and unfinished work grow into much bigger, much more stressful problems. As a sufferer of LFT continues to dodge small, tedious tasks, they inadvertently grow them into large, dreadful problems. Once the problems are bigger, the aversion to the work is greater, building an ever-growing mountain of work to be done (and an ever-growing mountain of stress to match).

Low Frustration Tolerance (LFT)

Seeking immediate pleasure or avoidance of pain at the cost of long-term stress and defeatism.

Short-term psychological hedonism.

(Albert Ellis also jokingly called it “can’t-stand-it-itis,” as in “I just can’t stand it!”)

High Frustration Tolerance (HFT), on the other hand, is a much better trait for productivity, not to mention mental health. Those with HFT can tolerate the frustration-filled tasks required to do their work and meet their long-term goals. While they’re not delighted with the short-term tedium, they have much bigger things to be happy about in the end.

What is your frustration tolerance? Have you run into “can’t-stand-it-itis” at work? Click Here to Read Article …

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What Wedding Planning Taught Me About Project Management

Carl Natale 16th July Productivity Leave a Comment

I’m getting married.

Yes, I’m thrilled. It’s going to be a small wedding on the shore of the lake. Beautiful spot for a beautiful day.

I’m pretty busy with the wedding planning. Even though it’s going to be small, we still have almost all the elements and decisions that come with a big wedding. Perhaps this is as unromantic as you can get, but it seems to me we’re using project management skills to do all of this. We have calendars, file folders, checklists and meetings.

This is a product launch to be branded as “Mr. and Mrs. Carl Natale.” Click Here to Read Article …

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How Much Vacation Time Is Necessary?

Ana da Silva 15th July Career Leave a Comment

When I was living in the United States, we had 2 weeks off per year as standard vacation time – although I did work somewhere where we only had 1 week off. Not so in Europe.

Many countries there give employees 5 or 6 weeks off per year. The argument for more time off is usually supported by the fact that everyone needs time to:

Rest
Be with family
Enjoy a hobby (or whatever activity makes one happy – skiing, surfing, etc.)

Those who support less time off have argued that with too much time off, people cannot concentrate once they’re back in the office.

So, are you for more or less time off for vacation? How much time do you need to recharge your batteries?
Click Here to Read Article …

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5 More Google Reader Tricks and Tools

Abhijeet Mukherjee 15th July Productivity Leave a Comment

When I asked if you still use an RSS reader, a huge number of you savvy folks flocked to the site to say yes, you do. And the comments show that Google Reader is the clear winner when it comes to RSS readers.

As a result, I’ve written another installment to our Google Reader tips which offers 5 cool links that have some great tricks and tools for this feed reader.

Better GReader For Firefox

A superb Firefox add-on for Google Reader developed by none other than Lifehacker’s founding editor, Gina Trapani.

Convert Partial Feeds Into Full-text Articles

A nice trick that utilizes a greasemonkey script to show the partial feeds as full articles in Google Reader.

Turn Google Reader into a Powerful SEO Tool

A comprehensive guide on using Google Reader to track backlinks, alerts and competitive intelligence.

Hack Attack: Getting Good With Google Reader

This is an old one but still quite useful. It explores various Google Reader tricks and tools to use it more productively.

How To Download Articles From Google Reader As PDF Documents

Yes, you could directly download important articles from Reader as PDF for reading later. The guide explains how to do it.

Feel free to add any Google Reader tricks and tools you have in your arsenal in the comments! Click Here to Read Article …

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Music at Work: Necessity or Nuisance?

Sara Hodon 15th July Office Life Leave a Comment

It’s a quiet day at the office.

The sounds of the keyboards a clicking away and you can hear the hum of appliances and the buzzing of fluorescent lighting throughout the room. It’s kind of nice, but also kind of eerie. Then a voice is heard that cuts the silence like a knife.

“Do you mind if I put on some music?”

What’s your reaction when a co-worker suggests this? Do you agree that the place is too quiet and needs some sound, or do you immediately nix the idea in favor of silence? Click Here to Read Article …

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