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Master Your Memory with Ron White

Success

Many people also regret how much they could improve their lives and businesses if they could only retain more information from reading materials. He explains the method by demonstrating how to memorize an entire issue of SUCCESS magazine. Now try to find the phone number of a friend. That information goes on your screen.

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Want to Reduce Digital Distractions? Brain Coach Jim Kwik Shares Strategies for Better Focus

Success

Also known as the extrathalamic control modulatory system, this part of the brain filters through the deluge of information we receive every day to determine what’s important and what should be muted. The second thing Kwik says happens when you grab your phone is a flex of your distraction muscles.

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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

Success

Her first thought was the officer saw her talking on the phone. Morales was released after 17 days, given a second chance through the DACA policy ( Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ) as well as a green card petition filed by her mother, who gained legal status in 2004 after marrying a U.S. For Morales, this was a shock.

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The Cognitive Scientist’s Handbook to Working an Optimal Day

Success

Since most companies don’t approve of siestas or desk naps, Loney recommends filling these two hours with menial tasks, such as scheduled status meetings, filling out timesheets or archiving old files. So during this time, what we’re good at mentally is alertness, vigilance, attention to detail and information review,” Loney says.

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Snail Mail 101

Clutter Coach

Reading material includes magazines, newspapers, annual reports, tip sheets from the garden center and professional association bulletins. I know they have fascinating and important information in them, but you don’t have time to read them and keep up with what came in today. Information is only useful when you can get at it.

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

Go to your human resources department and ask to see your employee file so you can write down all of the job titles, dates, and salary details for each position you’ve held with your current company. Third Paragraph – Action : Suggest the course of action you’d like the reader to take, such as schedule a phone call or interview.

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Paper Piles - 3 Tricks to Eliminate the Avalanche

Stephanie LH Calahan

  Bills to pay, to-do lists, event invites, magazines you have been meaning to read, orders you need to fill, and the list goes on and on.    If you know the information, also write down how and when you will best perform that action.    So, the next action was not the phone call, it was the research. . 

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