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The World’s Best Frozen Margarita Recipe

Bob Bessette 17th July General Leave a Comment

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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Fast Recipes for Work #1: Pierogi Casserole

Jason Finnerty 12th July General Leave a Comment

Everyone knows that freelancers live on caffeine and nicotine, but it’s important to put the right fuel in your body occasionally. Based on the feedback from a previous article, I’d like to present a few fast recipes that let you create a quasi-healthy meal, with a minimum amount of prep time, cooking time, and most importantly, clean up time. Try out the recipe, and let us know what you think.

Pierogi Casserole

1 small bag frozen pierogi
1 jar of your favourite spaghetti sauce
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese(or mozza, or both)

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Turn oven on to 350°F

Place frozen pierogi in a casserole dish (um, remember to remove from plastic bag…)

Add pasta sauce (pour over top of pierogi – recycle jar)

Sprinkle with shredded cheese

Bake in oven for 45 minutes to an hour

Remove from oven, scoop into bowl, serve with side salad and/or garlic bread.

Go back to coding/writing/designing – with a full belly.

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Mixing Twitter and Work

Sarah Nagel 10th July General Leave a Comment

Twitter. It’s a great escape.

It’s overflowing with helpful resources and links. It gives you an inside look at the latest trends and enables you to connect with authors, celebrities and industry professionals you once could only admire from afar. What’s not to love?

The allure of Twitter is getting harder and harder to overlook, but many workers are still hesitant to fully participate. Social media is often viewed as a distraction in the workplace. Making your tweets public is like giving your boss a minute-by-minute record of your distraction level. Do you really want to chance using Twitter at work?

Besides the whole not-working-at-work stigma, Twitter can potentially lead to other problems as well. Although you may try hard to keep your tweets professional and clean, you never know how someone else might interpret them. What you think is smart and funny may be a total turn-off to someone else. Self-employed workers must be careful to avoid offending potential clients as well. There’s a certain level of risk to be sure. You have to find a way to be smart about it.

So how do you handle Twitter in the workplace? Do you tweet at work? Do you choose to keep your profile private? Or do you think these concerns are not really that big a deal? Click Here to Read Article …

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Problem Solvers vs. Opportunity Creators

Peter North 9th July General Leave a Comment

We all have different professions and titles, but ultimately we can be separated into two categories: problem solvers and opportunity creators. Those who work in areas like “operations” or “technical support” are quintessentially problem solvers. On the other hand, positions in “sales,” “sponsorship” or “marketing” are intrinsically opportunity creating efforts.

The two have a symbiotic relationship – neither can survive without the other. Either a plethora of problems or a lack of opportunities could sink a business.

The main difference between these two is one of visibility. A great team of problem solvers is rarely recognized, as a lack of problems can seem “normal” and even make those who solved all the problems seem unnecessary.

In contrast, opportunity creators are celebrated at every possible juncture. A successful sponsorship, contract or campaign is good news for everyone, so of course it should be celebrated. However, this can cause opportunity creators to appear more appreciated (or more valuable) than problems solvers.

They’re not.

Don’t get me wrong. As a purebred problem solver, I don’t want the spotlight. What am I going to say that warrants it? I mean, this isn’t exactly going to set the world on fire:

“Today, our systems are working as expected. We’ve enabled you all to do you work.”

Although new opportunities “sound better” than solved problems, neither one is more valuable than the other. Problem solvers and opportunity creators are joined at the hip; they’ll sink or swim together. Click Here to Read Article …

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