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10 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get Things Done

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Having stalled until the last minutes, they tear into a project with dust flying and complaints about insufficient time. Every day we seem to have a giant to-do list of people to see, projects to complete, emails to write. Proactive goal achievement means taking every project and cutting it up into bite-sized pieces.

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How You Can Combat Collaboration Overload to Improve Company Performance—and Your Own

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A 2016 Harvard Business Review article found that over the past two decades, time spent by leadership and employees in collaborative activities has grown by more than 50%. For example, if you get too many emails, sit in too many meetings or spend too much time waiting for sign-offs, you can be left with little time to complete your tasks.

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7 Money Mistakes You’re Making in Your 20s

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You work hard for your money and have lost track of how many times you’ve gone above and beyond to help a co-worker or put in overtime to finish a project. But there are two easy tactics that can be used without much stress: Call three or more businesses and ask for a quote. Not considering how many hours (not dollars) something costs.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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She’d made a small on-the-job error, and a library trustee known for her bullying manner sent a reprimand to Fanning’s personal email address, CC’ing it to the entire board. Fanning acknowledged the error, apologized and asked that work emails be sent only to her work address. The stress-reducing power of assertiveness.

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Millions of tons of plastic are trashed every year. But what if we used it to pave our roads?

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The impetus for many similar road projects underway in Ghana was an ambitious plan announced by President Akufo-Addo in 2018. We have to be realistic at some point in how we try to remediate the vast problem of plastic pollution,” Doug Woodring, the founder of Ocean Recovery Alliance , said in an email. “I

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Why I Ditched My Newsletter … And What I Do Instead

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a single promotional email. And here I was ditching that format in favor of sending out up to three individual emails per week … yikes! Each email is very focused and specific and includes only ONE link/call to action — no more dilution of marketing messages. c) 2016 Tracey Lawton Training & Consulting LLC.

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Top 5 Strategies to Get Your Office Schedule Back on Track!

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Make way for those exciting new projects that have been put on the backburner while you were away. I recently did this and apart from getting rid of four grocery bags of papers, I felt much more motivated to start those projects that had been lurking for months! c) 2016 Tracey Lawton Training & Consulting LLC.

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