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Awesome Links #16: Self-Confidence, Single-tasking, Gmail Tips

63 Ways to Build Self-Confidence

The Lifehack blog talks about various ways (in fact, 63 of them) in which one could build his self confidence. Nice information with some unique tips.

Setting Goals to Succeed: Lessons from a Freelance Classical Musician

Marion Harrington gives an account of how he successfully relaunched his classical music career by setting goals the right way, on our sister site Freelance Switch. Click Here to Read Article …

How to Find the Work You Love

Finding work we enjoy is vital for our well being. After all most of us spend a fair portion of our week engaged in work. So how do we find work that we love? Here are some practical tips that I have found useful in my own life and when working with coaching clients. Click Here to Read Article …

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“On Second Thought” Takes a Second Look at Our Thinking Process

Regardless of industry, experience or pay-grade, all of our work ultimately consists of a long series of decisions. The thinking process behind them involves either careful, deliberate calculation or the use of instincts, impulses, and “following your gut.” In the workplace, terms like “Jack-of-all-trades,” “wearing many hats” and “thinking on your feet” bring to mind images of multitasking, prioritizing and decisive action. Click Here to Read Article …

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What’s Your Favorite Communication Channel?

Do you ever email a co-worker who is just down the hall from you? It’s one thing if you are sending over an attachment or have a quick comment to make, but what about those other times when you end up having long discussions back and forth? It can feel strange, knowing you are both choosing to type responses into a screen rather than actually talk to each other face to face.

Email seems convenient, but sometimes it’s a counterproductive communication channel. When you rely on email, discussions that might have taken fifteen minutes can get drawn out over the course of an entire day (or days). Plus, it’s hard to build good rapport over email. No matter how many emoticons and exclamation points you add in there, you just can’t communicate tone in the same way as you do in person.

When you communicate with co-workers, do you mostly rely on email or is personal interaction preferred? Where do you draw the line?

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Awesome Links #15: Mobile and PC Sync Tools, Virtual Secretary Tips

How to Keep Your Workflow in Sync Across Computers

A pretty useful article at Lifehacker to help you keep your work data in sync across multiple computers.

8 Tips for Using Virtual Assistants and Personal Outsourcing

If you use a virtual secretary (a.k.a virtual assistant or VA) or planning to use one, then this article at Six Revisions is worth a read. Click Here to Read Article …

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Do You Volunteer for an Organization or Cause?

I read this recent post, Making Your Passion a Higher Priority, and it hit close to home.

I have recently been asked to sit on the board of the young professionals chapter of my local chamber of commerce. I was flattered and immediately agreed. Not only do I believe in networking opportunities, I believe in my local business community.

Once a month I attend an hour-long meeting and help plan monthly, quarterly, and yearly activities. As the editor of a regional manager I feel it’s important for me to be involved in the community. But I was worried about how to fit my volunteer commitment into my work and personal life. Click Here to Read Article …

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Awesome Links #14: Twitter Links, Priority Inbox, Windows Context Menu

How to Extract Links From the Tweets In Your Twitter Timeline

If you love the information people share on Twitter via links, but don’t want to spend time visiting the site frequently to check for them then this tutorial on Guiding Tech will show you how you could pull out all the links from your Twitter stream in your RSS reader.

5 Tips for Using Priority Inbox

The Gmail team talks about five tips you could use with their new Priority Inbox feature to further enhance your productivity.

Keyboard Shortcuts That’ll Make Your Google Instant Searching Even Faster

If you’ve started using Google Instant Search then this article by Lifehacker could make your googling a bit easier.

From Freelancer to Thought Leader in 5 Easy Steps

An excellent article on our sister site Freelance Switch teaching freelancers to become thought leaders.

FilerFrog: Add a Productivity Boost to Your Context Menu

A nice find by Web Worker Daily that lets you do more with your Windows right click context menu.

55 Ways to Relax After Work

Do you ever feel like a zombie after a long day at work? You feel so depleted and tired. You hardly have any energy left at all. The only thing you want to do is eat comfort food, pop open a brewski and watch television until bedtime.

We’ve all been there. Zoning out in front of the TV can be a great way to relax, but more often than not, it just makes you feel even more useless. Sitting immobile on the couch for extended periods of time can reinforce your own sense of helplessness and exhaustion, especially if it becomes your regular evening routine. Click Here to Read Article …

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