Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 5, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 5 December, 2009 Do you like what you do? When the results were in, I met with the person who administered it and one of the things it showed, other than the fact that I ranked very high in administration, was that I work best on short-term projects where I can see the end in sight. How true that is!

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 16, 2010

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 16 July, 2010 Guest Blog by Alexis Bonari: 10 Easy Ways to Check and Maximize Time Management Photo from Flickr: Public Domain It’s not always about giving the boss her money’s worth – sometimes, it just feels great to know that work time is being managed well. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 20, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 20 July, 2009 I look like that!! I was in a workshop today on presentation skills and one of the things they had us do was present something to the group while they filmed us. I find we are often very critical of ourselves and it often impacts how we behave or project ourselves.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 24 February, 2009 Guest Post: What Makes Virtual Administrative Assistants Work? But there are some people who don’t need a full-time assistant; they need such services only when they’re on a certain project or burdened with too many short-term responsibilities. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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Eat Your Career

AUGUST 9, 2010

You end up in a new environment, learning new skills and meeting new people. If it is an 18-month project, start with 18-months. Bosses change, projects get extended, coworkers go away. It’s definitely worth the effort to leave a positive impression behind you. Then, re-evaluate how long your job will last monthly.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 14, 2008

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 14 October, 2008 October 15th, Blog Action Day: Poverty I am participating in Blog Action Day and the theme this year is Poverty. One office I worked in together sponsored a child as a workplace charity project. Lets enjoy our day together.© 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 14 February, 2009 Just a secretary. I helped my husband occasionally with his Event Management Projects and when it came to graphics I always took his help, I still do. My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets

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JULY 11, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 11 July, 2009 The importance of having someone to talk to Recently, I met with a former colleague for an inpromptu lunch. The admin profession lends itself to taking on new and sometimes challenging projects. Lets enjoy our day together.© 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 12, 2008

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 12 December, 2008 Are you worried about job security? Are you willing to take on new projects and new challenges? Join us at the luxurious Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast for an amazing end of year get away and your chance to network, learn and advance your skills in style! Be noticed.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 3, 2012

My blog posts, articles, and writing projects have all benefited from my fiction writing experience – that means I’m better at communicating with people and clients who bring me income. Writing about the same subject, even in fiction, was great for helping to hone my skills as a wordsmith. You’ll be much more organized.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 19 September, 2008 Using a Bring-Forward System to Help Organize Your Boss Of all the articles I have written, the one I wrote on the bring-forward system by far gets the most views. My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 24, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 24 January, 2009 Some People see Roadblocks -- Others see Hurdles. I am part of the project management office at my company and I hear the term roadblocks all the time. My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets

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Andrea Kalli

MAY 18, 2010

As a virtual assistant , if you have the skills and know-how, you can include SEO Support to your ever expanding list of internet marketing services. Definitely consider adding SEO Virtual Assistant services to your business. It’s not rocket science, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

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Men With Pens

MAY 31, 2011

A review tests the writer’s skill at persuasion and description. “Bathory’s Blood Fire Death is a groundbreaking album – a one-man project of Quorthon, who is now dead. How to Write a Kick-Ass Review first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Speak the Language.

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MARCH 4, 2010

If you ever decide to take a break to work on a project or to get some much-needed rest, good freelancers like Joe could take over other projects you have on the go for a week or two. Let Joe take on all the coding that goes into a project while you work on the design side of things. And you get to take care of yourself.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

That’s great for those people, and those people should definitely do business via the phone, because that’s how they get those brilliant ideas that make them good at their job. I’m too busy or I don’t have the necessary skills. This is the problem when people ask me to discuss their projects on phone meetings.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

I stand back, and begin moving notes until the ideas start flowing into easy categories: Blog, Projects, Home, Family, Health - etc. The most important fact to think about is 'what do I need to do next' By short-sighting yourself, you can take each step one-by-one without the chaos of the bigger project in your sights.

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Brilliantly Better

MAY 30, 2010

It’s consuming your resources, your time, your skills. Yet when it comes to fulfillment, even if I am struggling right now, I am definitely more fulfilled now than I was before. That was definitely not always the case since I always followed the rules and operated from that performance perspective up until the age of 29 or 30.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As of August, this year, my non-compete agreement is over and I am already involved in a few local projects. One of those projects is in fact an entrepreneurship-investors event, called Venture Connect. Basically, my job here is to screen interesting projects, to evaluate them and to make sure they meet a certain criteria.

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MAY 26, 2010

Common Blogging Ground I remember that one time he was very excited about a viral blogging project. He described the project in details in one long email and at the end of it he was asking me what I think. The project involved the participation of several hundreds of bloggers and I was happy to be one of them.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

You can send tasks, you can send events, you can send even projects or ideas and all the contained tasks / details within the projects or ideas will be automatically added. You can now have access to all your tasks, projects or ideas from anywhere. Well, starting with version 1.2 you can send any information via email.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

7 Life Lessons From A Self-Taught Programmer I recently finished a very dear project to me, an iPhone / iPad app based on my own life management framework, Assess – Decide – Do. Be Neat If you ever wrote a project with more than 5 source code files, you know that managing those source code files can be a nightmare.

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MAY 16, 2010

Curiosity has been classified as a nice-to-have attribute of a person; it definitely hasn’t been a reinforced attribute by our education system because some feel curiosity may not really serve a purpose. “It She blogs about Ultimate Lifestyle Design at the Freedom Venture Project ™ Blog. Eduard @ People Skills Decoded´s last blog.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

If you apply the 80/20 rule to your life, be sure to first make clear what are you giving up, and don’t mix leisure with work, or even different projects at work. A real life example would be (activities in no particular order): Work: Thesis, Project A, Project B, Teaching A, Teaching B, Student Questions.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

If you apply the 80/20 rule to your life, be sure to first make clear what are you giving up, and don’t mix leisure with work, or even different projects at work. A real life example would be (activities in no particular order): Work: Thesis, Project A, Project B, Teaching A, Teaching B, Student Questions.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

There are some unquestionable benefits like: increased exposure, enlarging your circle of influence, refining your writing skills and so on and so forth. In a massive guest posting project, you publish a few related blog posts (preferably from the same series) on a few blogs, all at the same time. They are in the circle of friends.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

Series can expand into very interesting collaborative projects, like I did with this massive guest posting experiment (which, in my opinion, it was a total premiere in the blogging world). There is the head to head challenge, and then there are the collective projects. You need much more than skill to be there. As easy as that.

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APRIL 4, 2010

Reply 3 Anne Lyken-Garner April 5, 2010 at 10:18 am Definitely! Reply 6 Eduard @ People Skills Decoded April 5, 2010 at 2:21 pm That first one there about perfectionism is crucial from my perspective. Eduard @ People Skills Decoded´s last blog. Definitely my new business motto! Great post! Great post.

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JUNE 7, 2010

There are certain skills required to create and maintain a successful blog, I agree, but that has little to do with self-improvement. And I also did something to soften a potential crash: a dry run using a low effort project, just to get a glimpse of what should I expect. We’re incorporating skills, information, knowledge, experience.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Reply 26 Eduard - People Skills Decoded November 9, 2010 at 12:41 am Awesome dude! It’s definitely a sign I have some unorthodox ideas. Eduard – People Skills Decoded´s last blog. Reply 34 Ash @ The Middle Finger Project November 9, 2010 at 12:47 pm Yes! Ash @ The Middle Finger Project´s last blog.

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

Philosophers have been debating the meaning of happiness almost since the dawn of time and we still don’t have a definition that everybody agrees upon. Especially when you consider that the reverse applies and many people seem skilled at snatching misery from the jaws of happiness. comes my way. Tim Brownson´s last blog.

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APRIL 16, 2010

Stage Two: Growing Skills and Sensors After the assessment, you start to actually invest. You’re going to do this in two ways: you’re either growing and enhancing skills, either build new “reality sensors”. Let’s talk a little about those “reality sensors” (will get back to skills a little later). Fundamental difference.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

The about page should be the place where you should list all your credentials, testimonials and all the other references about you on the interwebs: interviews, collective projects, media appearances and so on. While this may be true, until they don’t make their skills obvious, nobody will even know what they do.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Decision is the state in which you project your next reality. Well, you can edit that piece of information, right in the Assess realm, choosing what type of info is: task, idea, event or project. You may turn those ideas into projects later if you really want to. That too is perfectly ok. You are allowed to do this.

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MAY 17, 2010

Less is more: less fear, anger and revenge will definitely make room for something else. Staring at something (a project, a task, a client) without acting on it will make it stop. Less is definitely more. Reply 17 Vincent May 22, 2010 at 10:19 pm Less is definitely more. We already got rid of the bad stuff, right?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is one of my oldest projects and it’s the kind of stuff that grows organically, without too much noise, but with the unmissable feeling of a strong, solid foundation. Based on my own framework, called Assess - Decide - Do, it will definitely change the way you look at productivity. Which is exactly in 48 hours.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But spending all your time dissecting your tasks, projects, goals or attitudes in smaller and smaller chunks of data will eventually paralyze you. And while we definitely deserve to reward ourselves for our accomplishments, sometimes, it’s easy to mistake reward for seeking out a distraction. Well said, brotha.

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