Quicky: 11 ways to improve memory.

von Robert Günther am 12.01.2008

Todd Goldfarb from the wecanchange.com blog gives us eleven ways on how to improve our memory. I’ll list them below, follow the link to read the detailled explainations. Eat Brain “Superfoods”. Stretch. Teach Others. Take a Break. Listen to Music. Try Ginkgo Biloba. Use Acronyms and Other Mnemonic Devices. Cross-pollinate Your Interests. Sleep Well. Collaborate. [...]

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How to overcome discouragement.

von Robert Günther am 12.01.2008

Recently I changed my job due to a promotion now facing a lot of new tasks and project While some of them are a welcome challenge some others grow fear in me. Not fear on their own but fear to fail. In Scoutt Youngs blog I found nine ideas on how to overcome this growing [...]

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Read more fiction!

von Robert Günther am 12.01.2008

Scott Young wrote a phantastic (no pun intended) blog post on the question whether you should read more fiction. As I am a huge fiction literature fan myself, mostly phantasy, I can only agree to all of his points. For me fictional books increase my thinking and take me away from problems I face in [...]

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Quicky: Top Ten Myths of Entrepreneurship

von Robert Günther am 12.01.2008

Guest author Scott Shane, Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University, writes in Guy Kawasakis blog about the top ten myths of entrepreneurship (love to type that word).

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Increase your trust in people.

von Robert Günther am 12.01.2008

When you’re working in a tough environment you might have experienced that some people from time to time disappoint you. Maybe you’ve learned it the hard way by being let down by someone you trusted or you made the experience by listening to others stories. Nevertheless losing trust in colleagues also affects your overall trust [...]

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Grabbing some energy back.

von Robert Günther am 12.01.2008

Do you know the feeling? You are planing to do something, work on a new project and you’ve completed all the necessary steps: preparation, gathering material, setting everything up… and right at start line your power withdraws. Ok lets get a bit more specific: On your way home you make a plan on how to [...]

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Shortcuts in Acrobat

von Maik Preßler am 06.12.2007

Inspired by the Keyboard Ninja from the How-to Geek, i’d like to give some very useful keyboard shortcuts for Adobes Reader. Sure, there are plenty more, but these are the ones that have saved me a lot of time yet: [Ctrl]+[1] , [Ctrl]+[2], [Ctrl]+[3], [Ctrl]+[0]: Switching the Reader’s display mode [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[n]: goto page [Ctrl]+[L]: Fullscreen [...]

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Sitting may cause disease, just stand up!

von Robert Günther am 20.11.2007

The University of Missouri-Columbia published a study saying that sitting while working may increase the risk of disease. As most of us work on desks we face the same situation where we sit in front of the screen all day hardly moving. Of course most of us had to do some kind of ergonomic training, [...]

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Most Efficient Time-Waster Ever

von Maik Preßler am 15.11.2007

Just a link to an excellent term i’ve been stumbled upon: “most efficient time-waster ever”. Worth a read, definitely! Link: Wired.com: Thanks to Google’s Tools, I’m the Most Efficient Time-Waster Ever

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