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7 Things That Should be in Your Schedule Every Week
As you start your planning, there are 7 things that should be in your schedule every week. Putting things off until the last minute and leaving projects languishing in an unfinished state leads to less productive lifestyle choices where everything can be done "tomorrow." Items like smart phones, as well as work-based internet access, are responsible for a rather significant amount of wasted time each week all over the world. To boost personal success and productivity, [...]
Is it time for CRM?
How do you know that it's time for your business to invest in CRM software? Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is taking what you used to do manually to maintain relationships and making it automated. It’s centralizing all the details—big and small—about every customer in one place. With the proper system in place, your customer will feel just as connected to you without the impossible undertaking of memorizing personal information about every one of them. Have you [...]
Time- Wasting Habits — and How to Break Them
Running out of time to complete your task list? It might be due to the habits that clock too much time in your day. The habits that hurt your productivity might surprise you. Here are three habits that waste your time and the ways to beat them. When tackling a cluttered lifestyle, sometimes it’s not what you need to “get” that will help, it’s what you need to “get rid of.” Here are three common [...]
5 Habits of Good Salespeople
Its no secret that establishing good habits can make you successful in life. Turning one-off good behaviors into habits can make you especially successful in your work as a sales person. Habits are the behaviors that you do repeatedly, many times without even thinking about them. Here are 5 habits that successful […]
10 Great Reasons to Keep a Journal
Do you keep a journal? In todays world of digital “this” and go paperless “that” the idea of a journal might conjure thoughts of secret teenage crushes or something that you “used to do”. But why? As you get older the benefits of keeping a journal get greater and greater. Here are 10 great reasons for keeping a journal. 10. For emergency and contingency situations You never know when you will need to know what [...]
Ways to Feel Organized
What are some of the things you do to feel organized? If you're an organized person, or if you have a goal to be a better organized person you'll likely be on a quest to find activities that will make you feel organized. Having a clear head can give you clarity to see things in new ways, to find new solutions, and can restore your energy to tackle life's biggest challenges. Because the "feeling" of [...]
Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues and Self-Improvement
Many people consider Ben Franklin as not only one of the Founding Fathers of the United States but as one of the founding thought leaders on personal development. Ben Franklin's virtues in his own personal quest for moral perfection are shown below: Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. Order: Let all your things have their places; let each [...]
The Importance of Prioritizing
How do you organize? Do you write lists? Many people do. Lists are very helpful ways for capturing your information and all the ideas and things that you need to do. After you write the list, what do you do next? The next step in getting organized is prioritizing your list. What is the purpose of prioritizing? Prioritizing is the process of determining what is most important. While at first glance you may be [...]
5 Tips for Effective Project Management
No matter how well planned a project may be, there are challenges that will have to be overcome. Additionally, there are numerous factors that can derail a project as well as many types of internal and external conditions that can affect it. Fortunately, by taking certain precautions, it becomes possible for any type of project to be successfully completed. Here are five project management tips that you can use to make sure your project stays [...]