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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. For example, if you are holding a meeting with team members, make sure the agenda is set, action items are completed and that things don’t slip through the cracks. Thanks for visiting! What gives someone the right and the ability to lead? Comments No comments yet.

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Learn from the example of others. blogs.reuters.com) Related Posts: Included on Another Top 50 Blogs List 4 Ways to Stimulate Your Creativity Bits and Pieces – December 28 Motivation Did you enjoy this post? Thanks for visiting! Suck it up.

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Small uses the example : If Mrs. Beatty has broad lips, imagine Warren Beatty kissing those lips. Thanks for visiting! With Look, Snap, Connect Do you want to know how to remember names and faces? What would it be like to never forget a person’s name again?

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The spreadsheet might contain other types of data, but is similar to this example? checked (in this example). Imagine your boss comes to your desk and asks you to provide him/her with details of how much each firm earned in revenue on this spreadsheet. You think to yourself, how can I do this quickly, without much manual work?

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. In the example above, a chronological sequence fits. From the example above, you could simply say, “I would like to tell you about how we started this project, where we are today and our time-line for completing the project&# , which is a chronological sequence.

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. For example: typing a 40-slide PowerPoint presentation: two hours, provided all the material is complete. Thanks for visiting! It’s 3:00 in the afternoon and your boss calls from the road and says, “Drop everything, I need this report in an hour.&#

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. For example, discontent with one’s weight can lead to diet and exercise. Related Posts: Blogging Tip – Less Input More Output Finding clichés is as easy as pie World Vision Canada – Celebrity Quiz Personal Development Did you enjoy this post?

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. For example, Dr. William Harvey made medical history by explaining how the circulatory system worked: He likened the heart to a pump and gave himself a new frame of reference—and from that he understood blood vessels as part of a unified pumping system. (2)

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. For example, remembering the number sequence of: 6-3-2-4-8-1-7-9 could be remembered easier if the sequence is chunked into: 63-24-81-79. Thanks for visiting! It’s Monday morning. You have one minute before you have to leave for work, but can’t find your keys.

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. For example if you worry a great deal about flying, know that plans land and take off safely, every second somewhere in the world. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life!

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. A leader shows others where to go, then sets the example for getting there. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap How to Motivate Yourself Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on July 5, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

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I recently added a post called " Outlook Rules That Rule " from a fellow Administrative Assistants blog. For example, I receive an e-mail from my direct supervisor. Do you feel overwhelmed with trying to figure out who you should respond to first? There is another method to this madness though.

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. 7) Set Time Limits on Tasks There are certain types of tasks, reading e-mail for example, that can occupy all your time if you allow it. I’d like to post links to your articles from my blog but don’t see where to link them to! Thanks for visiting!

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Here is how to calculate the difference between two numbers as a percentage: For example, your earnings are $2,342 in November and $2,500 in December. It kept providing me topics that werent relevant to the particular answer I was looking for. I then checked Excels help file and there it was. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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For example, if I have Microsoft Excel XP and would like to send a file to a client that only has Microsoft Excel 97 (which was a horrible disaster for Microsoft, since there were quite a few bugs in this version), you could save the file as a Microsoft Excel 97 version. I remember in the past that you can always downgrade files.

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F or example, if you want to make a million dollars before you die, write out exactly what you want and how you will achieve this. Another thing that helps people to get motivated is by writing some sort of mantra on a piece of paper or printing it out. This way, when you sit down, you can read it each and every day.

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For example, you want to spend one hour on a particular project. But of course, you don’t want to disturb others around you with the bell going off or some even have chickens clucking as the alarm. To avoid this, try using an online timer instead. Virtual Stopwatch gives you the option to set a predetermined amount of time.

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. For example, if an employee reduces their work hours, they may not be willing or interested in taking a position or promotion that requires extended travel. And on the other hand, people keep freaking out when I answer email on my days off / sick days.

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Ill be checking email _(once a week, every day, etc) __, but will have limited ability to respond. For example: Advertising inquiries, please contact John Doe at john.doe@company.com Billing inquiries, please contact Jane Smith at jane.smith@company.com And so on and so forth. I appreciate your example.

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For example, I will try to work on task A for 1 hour. Narrow them down to the amount that you can manage (usually 3 - 5), but some people can do more or less. Move all of the other tasks to the next day or time that you can tackle them. Next, add a time frame to each task. Then I will work on Task B for 30 minutes and so on and so forth.

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For example, if I need to send out a newsletter to all clients, I would call it "Newsletter" At this point, you would just start up a new e-mail, click on the "To:" button and select "Newsletter" from your address book. Add New, of course, would be used to add a brand new contact.

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. For example, if we have to deliver a document at an office and collect a document from another office which is on the same block, both these tasks can be done together. Thanks for visiting! It consolidates all your tasks in one place. I have loads of them.

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Look for examples in your life, your surroundings, in the media or in books of people who have done things against the odds and use those examples as symbols of what’s possible for you. Thanks for visiting! By Laura Berman Fortgang, Author of Now What?:

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Heres an example of what happened with me. 2comments for this post Anonymous HI Richard, Thanks for leaving a comment on my blog. The downfall of outsourcing is that youre not sure if the quality of the work will be presented, since you are relying one someone or a company to do the work for you and might not be to your standards.

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Ive tried to exhaust all the possible things I could do that he doesnt ask me to do - organize emails, files, clutter, contacts, create procedures. Explain to him that youre in a situation where you feel unproductive and give some examples. His reply is usually, "Im working on some things that Ill get to you soon." and he never does.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. One writer gives the following example: Imagine that a friend is late to meet you. Related Posts: Top Five Posts for May 2007 Top 10 Posts for 2007 How Niche Blogging Increased My Earnings Motivation Did you enjoy this post? Thanks for visiting! » ??????????

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Note: Make sure to add the time in the meeting schedule (for example: Meeting with client, 1:00 pm Calgary time), so the manager knows that this is the correct time to meet with this client. Now you can see by the picture below that the new time zone has been added. You can now add in the meeting details for this time zone.

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Home About Me Advertise Thinking Outside the Job Description Box By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, March 20, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by Patricia Robb of Laughing All The Way to Work: The Ultimate Secretarial Survival Blog. Having Trouble Planning A "Non-Religious" Office Party?

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. You’ll want to “defrag” these items by organizing them into their proper category, for example, work projects vs. home projects, things you need to do on a certain day versus those that are due by a certain day and so on. Thanks for visiting!

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. The trick for any of them is to learn to use MULTIPLE TAGS so that you can find them, otherwise – for example, your searches will pull up a thousand documents with the word ‘HTML’ in them. What’s in My Blogging Toolkit? Thanks for visiting!

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Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. You might, for example, offer to reschedule a meeting for a later date, or recommend giving an assignment to another qualified team member. Thanks for visiting! Many employees aspire to become a leader at some point in their career. Manage expectations.

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Home About Me Advertise Outlook Rules That Rule By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by Patricia Robb of Laughing All The Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant. It was getting out of control.

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