Do you feel stuck in your job or your life? Are you growing a bit stale and stagnant?
Maybe it’s time to move onward and upward, but you don’t really know how to get there? Then perhaps what you’re missing is a personal growth plan.
A personal growth plan is an organized way to help you realize your full potential in your career and in your life.
Are you ready? Here are some elements of a personal growth plan. Click Here to Read Article …
Nobody is going to argue that outsourcing, as a general idea, is usually considered a bad thing.
The nightly news is full of stories about huge corporations who dodge tax burdens and destroy jobs by outsourcing their basic needs, like customer service, to other countries.
Sometimes though — especially when you are running your own business — outsourcing can be a good and helpful thing.
Here are the top three things that you can (and should) outsource when you are building a business of your very own. Click Here to Read Article …
The first day of my first office job, my boss told me plainly, “There are two types of people in the business world. That guy who sets up all of the meetings and the rest of us, okay?”
He was no fan of wasting time, and it rubbed off on me in a big way. Spending countless hours in meetings — at least one per day at the height of my office career — is one of the driving reasons I moved away from working for others and started freelancing.
For the most part, fewer meetings have been a natural side effect of going into business for myself. My clients want to be bothered with unnecessary meetings every bit as little as I do. Click Here to Read Article …
Are you sleepwalking through your workday? You’re not alone.
Studies show that scores of employees aren’t actively engaged at work for a variety of reasons, which results in poor productivity and a sinking bottom line.
The ownership of employee engagement typically starts at the top.
Executive leadership and management should take responsibility for establishing a positive culture by understanding what motivates employees and by taking steps to cultivate an enthusiastic workforce.
Employee engagement is a two-way street, but what can you do if your employer is not doing its fair share? Click Here to Read Article …
There is a great little book about life and living called The Four Agreements. It is a New York Times bestseller by the Toltec Indian teacher and spiritual guide by Don Miguel Ruiz.
It features four simple agreements that if you practice them regularly, will improve your life and living. One of them, the fourth actually, is Always Do Your Best.
This agreement, which you make with yourself, allows all the other positive things that you do in life to become more effective and to reach their full potential so that you can live a happy and contented life.
But you can also utilize this agreement to make the most of your time at work. And since you spend a third of your life there, the practices that you introduce at work will spill over to help you make the most of the rest of your life as well. Click Here to Read Article …
Whether you’re writing your midterm paper or finishing a deadline on an article for a client, writing can be a difficult job. Writer’s block can be a real problem.
Creativity doesn’t always flow when it should.
Plenty of writers sit down with every good intention, only to find themselves an hour later having accomplished nothing.
Well, nothing aside from trolling around online, playing games or suddenly feeling the need to reorganize their entire office.
Although writing can be a daunting task, these seven tips will help you get your creative juices flowing and get you on track to producing better writing without sweating the deadline. Click Here to Read Article …
We all get a bit nervous or anxious at work sometimes. Deadlines, extra work and then more work on top of that can make anyone feel stressed out.
But as anyone who has ever suffered from anxiety or a panic attack can tell you, acute anxiety is a completely different story.
A small percentage of people all over the world have a serious problem with anxiety. They suffer from a medical condition that will require professional assessment and treatment.
But many more of us are affected by milder forms of general anxiety that can feel bad at the time but often pass quickly. Click Here to Read Article …
I am finding that in my role I am traveling more and more on a monthly basis. I am becoming increasingly aware of these costs for the company I work for.
Businesses everywhere must find new and different ways to slash costs if they want to survive in today’s economic climate.
Gone are the days of reckless business travel for huge numbers of executives at the drop of a hat!
Well, for most of us anyway. But it’s vital not to lose out on business travel when it is necessary.
It can be the difference between making a certain sale or retaining business. In the days of video conferencing, Skype and instant messaging, it’s still important to remember that the personal touch can mean the difference between a good business and a great business. Click Here to Read Article …
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