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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JULY 20, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 20 July, 2009 I look like that!! Other than the reality check of the above three items, it was a great way to see how I project myself and how other people see me. I find we are often very critical of ourselves and it often impacts how we behave or project ourselves. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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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.© 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Laughing all the Way to Work

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.© 411 Look Up 411.ca

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JULY 7, 2010

1) Incorporate Social Media If you do not mind stretching the definition slightly, blogs are social media. If it can travel through already established relationships, make it something that travels via Facebook. If your message can be summarized in 140 characters, make it a promotion that works effectively on Twitter.

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Andrea Kalli

JULY 7, 2010

1) Incorporate Social Media If you do not mind stretching the definition slightly, blogs are social media. If it can travel through already established relationships, make it something that travels via Facebook. If your message can be summarized in 140 characters, make it a promotion that works effectively on Twitter.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

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

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? Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! Lets enjoy our day together.© Be noticed.

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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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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Rosie Stefan Töpfer Said on April 17th, 2010 at 12:28 pm Thanks for your comments guys, it is true the cost of gas(petrol) is increasing all the time, add the travel time saved, less offices to heat, higher productivity etc. Build your own network!

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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. Tagged as: curiosity , questions Liked it?

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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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MARCH 25, 2010

Dragos Roua – Brilliantly Better The Personal Development Blog Home About me Top posts Archives Downloads Audio Recommended Products Contact Being A Digital Nomad by dragos on March 25, 2010 · 30 comments in Productivity & Effectiveness , Travel & Fun Tweet Ever wondered what being a digital nomad means?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 8, 2010

FreeMind helps you to keep track of your projects using notes with links in what is called the knowledge base. Nozbe This is a web-based time and project management app that helps you get things done. Organize your projects and see what you have left to do. I have used and definitely like the FreeMind software.

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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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SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Learning a new language is a beautiful travel. 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. Without a formalized methodology in place, the project simply wouldn’t have been finished.

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APRIL 14, 2010

Zeenat Merchant-Syal’ Ebook: Best Of Positive Provocations Zeenat is a fresh presence in the self-improvement world and by that I mean she’s new – with only one year of blogging at Positive Provocations – but she’s also projecting a fresh perspective. LisaNewton´s last blog. She is truly a breath of fresh air. Thanks so much!

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Men With Pens

APRIL 25, 2010

You want to get it out of the way so you can start your writing project. Tweet about your writing project. 5 Ways to Trim the Fat from Your Next Project Reply --Deb ( @__Deb ) April 25, 2010 at 12:43 pm Oh, this is just hilarious. You thought you heard the phone ring this morning but you aren’t sure. Check your email.

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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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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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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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AUGUST 30, 2010

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. Collaborative Projects Every once in a while a collaborative project surfaces my inbox. Every time I am asked to do some writing for a collaborative project I’m incredibly motivated.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

It’s your connection to reality and as such, it cannot be infected with other people (or projections) presence. What We See Is What We Project If you enter somebody else’s dream, you will notice a lot of persons there. Those persons are not individuals, they are merely projections of that person subconscious. They will mix in.

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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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MARCH 8, 2010

We spent around 4 hours talking and sharing ideas, projects or life experiences. As an online entrepreneur , I did budgeting and financial projections almost on auto-pilot, for more than 10 years. Based on my own framework, called Assess - Decide - Do, it will definitely change the way you look at productivity.

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

I currently contribute a monthly article to Jonathan Wells’ newsletter SharingLifeSkills.com , and with Steven I initiate all sorts of blogging challenges, or we brainstorm projects together. Jon from The Titan Project Jonathan Manor´s last blog. For instance, my first trip outside of the country was when I was over 33.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

The ultimate project management victory: I crossed off my own death today. In this respect, a project is never “finished” in ADD. The graphical representation of a project in Assess – Decide – Do will look more like a spiral than like a Gantt diagram. Projects, tasks and events will start to fall into their places.

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JUNE 7, 2010

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. Based on my own framework, called Assess - Decide - Do, it will definitely change the way you look at productivity. Looks like you had to take a step back to do this. Paramjit´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 14, 2010

Nicknamed “The Professor&# , Neil has written books, penning four incredible texts about traveling, loss, and music. Like my hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, I start a lot of projects and then get sidetracked. This information will definitely assist in that process. They began to speak volumes to me. You’re dead on, man.

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APRIL 26, 2010

If you are planning to pursue your passion, they are definite essential steps in your journey. Create your business guidebook For every project I do, I have a guidebook where I write my goals, strategies, plans and learnings.It’s like a success roadmap. I use excel workbook because it’s so easy to organize information.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 1, 2010

If you don’t give yourself one, you’ll subconsciously start creating your own breaks – by cutting corners, skimping on quality, rushing projects. You’ll have more revisions than usual, and that takes time away from projects that earn you money. Don’t freak out that you don’t have a project to work on.

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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. Based on my own framework, called Assess - Decide - Do, it will definitely change the way you look at productivity.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

You’ll work on a wide variety of projects for lots of different clients. You have to find a way to generate leads and close deals to get the paying projects. You will find yourself juggling multiple projects and clients. In other words, the ability to work and travel. Variety is the spice of freelancing.

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JUNE 27, 2010

In business, although I was successful in my niche, I always had smaller projects going on, just in case. They were just boiling slowly and sometimes those projects saved me from some pretty tough cash-flow situations. I’m a fan of jumping to opportunities and traveling light. As simple or as complicated as you see fit. {

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

In the last two months I started a consulting project (quite a big one, it will end in March next year) where I have to spend a few hours every day in an office, evaluating progress of a team, provisioning, negotiating deals, creating and implementing strategies and so on. You can get it at a very affordable 3.99

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APRIL 5, 2010

I liked the exercise and I can definitely apply it in my life (who can’t, really?) I’ll definitely make sure that your first wish comes true, but I am not sure about the other two Anastasiya´s last blog. I’ll definitely publish a Magic Fairy post and link back here. ‘Two out of three ain’t bad.’

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