This post really holds a lot of value for me as I keep struggeling explaining people why I love spending time alone and what I take out of these precious moments. Working as a Sales Guy gives me the opportunity to get in contact with lots of ppl every day on the phone, via email [...]
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With my thesis on e-learning finished I still have a huge interest the topic and on the question how to make online learning more effective. As e-learning is in many ways different from traditional learning you still try to reach the same goal: understand a topic, find a solution or just reach out for something [...]
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Recently I spoke about how to accept criticism but in fact criticism often comes from ourself and therefore the acceptance process is a little different… e.g. we can’t put up the question “how does my counterpart feel” or “why is he reacting in this way” because this is us… these are our own thoughts. But [...]
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The Pickthebrain blog discusses 5 ways to work on and improve yourself at work. The article tells us about how to be self-disciplined, how to implement a productivity system, develop your interpersonal and networking skills, commit to excellence and exercise your brain. Nice brain food for a 5 min break. Link: Pickthebrain.com – 5 Ways [...]
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A few weeks before I spoke about how to learn to accept criticism. I spoke with a few friends about this topic and most of them argued they’d have not only problems with the criticism itself but would bild up inner conflicts with themselves and the people giving the criticism. Matching this topic I just [...]
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Have you ever been in a situation, project or program where you had difficulties to finish, to reach the goal? Quite often these if no real problem that’s holding us back, many of us just have a problem to accomplish things. Cal Newport from Study Hacks gives us an insight of his view on these [...]
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Scott Young gives us another 7 bad email habits that make people want to kill you. I agree to all seven moints and would like to emphasize two major points: the buried question and the urgent request paragraph. The problem with buried questions within emails is the fact, that the people writing these mails often [...]
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The issue of backing up your important data is a topic of high interest for everyone dealing with critical data. Some time ago, i thougt about how to manage the backup of my daily documents as simple as possible. As my requirements, i name these: Most of my data is saved in more or less [...]
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Martijn over at Fresh Creation.nl posted a great video of Journalist Carl Honore speaking at TED about slowing down. His main point is that by slowing down you are more productive, more creative and you live healthier. 20 minutes worth watching.
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