I bet you know the great book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey, a great book on productivity and self-improvement. Now you can download the entire audiobook for free: What are the habits all successful people share? In this audio presentation, Stephen R. Covey answers that question and teaches you [...]
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Part of job being is a Sales rep is a very uncomfortable thing called hunting. It’s so unpleasent for me because it means picking up the phone, dialing a number and talking to a complete stranger. When I started in Sales this seemed to me completely undoable, I was in deep fear of rejection, of [...]
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Almost a year ago I stumbled upon the guides of three Microsoft employees, Angus Logan, Johann Kruse & Ian Palangio, which described how these three handled the massive amount of email which filled their inboxes every day. They took the best practices of known email management approaches (e.g. the 4 D’s, GTD etc.) and combined [...]
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Not really a “self-improvement” topic, but I guess we could file it under “motivation”. The Boston Glove explains how to create hallucinations with simple items found at home, as a radio and a pingpong ball. Check the entire article.
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As Robert is using the Remeber The Milk Plugin for his to-do list, GMaill now offers its own solution. The options are quiet simple but for me it is all I need like categories, due date and notes. Another cool feature I already know from Apple Mail is converting Mails into tasks. GMail’s to-do list [...]
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“Oh no! Not another boring PowerPoint presentation! My eyes, my eyes…!!!” How much does it suck to be in the audience for yet another drawn-out, boring, lifeless slideshow? Worse yet, how much does it such to be the one giving it? The truth is, bad PowerPoint happens to good people, and quite often the person [...]
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How often have you clicked on the SEND button within Outlook and in the very second you clicke you noticed that you made a mistake. Maybe you forgot the attachment, misspelled a word in the subject or put your boss on CC instead of your best work buddy? I’ve been through all of these and [...]
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You may have heard it already, maybe your mum said it or someone during a health course at school: breakfeast is the most imporant meal of the day. But why is that so you may ask. Well first of all because it gives us energy for the few hours in which we’re most productive and [...]
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