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The One Thing You Must Do to Gain Control of Your Inbox

By on December 19, 2011 in Productivity, Simple Steps

Simple Steps Do you cringe when you open your email? How could you possibly have 42 new emails overnight you ask? If you’re lucky they’re spam (that’s easy to take care of with a good spam filter,) but usually they’re not. Many of those messages are announcements, updates, sales or some other form of mailing [...]

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Slow Down! You May be Missing Something Important

By on December 16, 2011 in Happiness, Life Balance

“Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.” Eddie Cantor Slow down! You may be missing something important…your life. This time of year it’s more important than ever to slow down and enjoy your [...]

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Why Light May be the Key to Happiness

By on December 14, 2011 in Happiness

Everyone should have one! If only a blindingly bright spray of white artificial light could give us the secret to happiness. That would be wonderful and…well… fanciful. But the truth is, if you suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder or “winter blues” a White “Happy” light might help. According to Familydoctor.org Seasonal affective disorder (also called SAD) is a [...]

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Make a Difference in Your Productivity in Just One Hour

By on December 12, 2011 in Productivity

Simple Steps Implement a daily Focus Hour. We bandy about strategies for focusing and concentrating our mind on technical or creative pursuits, but the single most useful tactic to get more done in less time is to eliminate all distractions and “uni-task.” But, but…people need me…I can’t be out of the loop. Really? Even for [...]

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Don’t Forget the Golden Rule….of Productivity

By on December 9, 2011 in Productivity

Every once in a while we need to be reminded of the basics… We are, most of us at least, creatures of habit and structure. We thrive when there are rules and guidelines to assist us through the veritable maze of life and work processes. Why should productivity be any different? Learning or developing any routine or [...]

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