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Could One Item in Your Office Be Hurting Your Productivity?

Tips From T. Marie

It looked expensive, but after sitting in it for an hour or so my back began to ache and when I’d get up to move around my knees complained. Until I stumbled upon a report that shared the 17.8 These chairs are expensive! And when that one broke a couple of years later, I grabbed another inexpensive one somewhere else.

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The Most Important Trait To Boost Your Productivity

Productivityist

I like to use Excel to analyze purchases, plan expenses and analyze different investments. Start by learning a few Excel keyboard shortcuts to navigate in Excel faster. You could learn Visual Basic for Applications to automate the production of reports. I sometimes even daydream in Excel about different scenarios (e.g.

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The Solopreneur Handicap That Makes You Suck at Productivity

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Wipe last night’s cereal crumbs from your keyboard. As a solopreneur, you should be accountable to your “board” to follow up and report on last quarter’s game plan. Present your budge, P&L and expenses to your team. Here’s why the solopreneur life kills productivity. The solopreneurial dream is sexy. Wake up at noon.

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Guest Blog by Alexis Bonari: 10 Easy Ways to Check and Maximize.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Make sure that tasks directly associated with clients come first, consider the financial impact of a project and its completion date on the company, don’t let deadlines control the priority list (expense reports can wait when there are more important tasks), and consider cause and effect (do A to enable B, which accomplishes C).

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What ever happened to the "us" in Service?

Laughing all the Way to Work

It was expensive,but when I brought it home I had to do all the work to get it up and running. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. Now, there doesnt seem to be a difference in price at all, it is just common practice that we have to do it ourselves. Recently, I bought a new laptop. What is wrong with this picture?

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Do you like what you do?

Laughing all the Way to Work

If you know what works best for you and if your job is 80/20 on what you like then you can put up with the small stuff like filing and filling out expense forms. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. This is an important thing to know. Taking Effective Meeting Minutes ► August (3) Pass it on. vs. i.e.

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Monty Python Officeland

Laughing all the Way to Work

He wrote in one sentence that he had " expensive experience" instead of "extensive" and in another wrote "tits" instead of "its." Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. He relied totally on spell check so you can imagine what typos were missed. Good thing I checked. Oh where or where is my password? vs. i.e.