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This 3-Question Self-Assessment Can Help You Reprioritize Your Life

Success

Many, for example, would emphasize faith within their personal development, and others would make service and giving prominent among their achievements. Find blocks of time when you shut off not only the phone and computer but the whole achievement part of your brain so you can focus on the people you love. Photo by miniseries/IStock.

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From Executive Assistant to CEO

ProAssisting Blog

And then this too: Later, the phone rang. These working relationships are a perfect example of how much more the position of executive assistant can be and what that can lead to in the future. Mr. Allaire [Xerox’s President] wanted to see her in his office. She figured that it was not good news.

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Master Your Memory with Ron White

Success

Now try to find the phone number of a friend. This article was published in May 2009 and has been updated. Now imagine taking all the files out of the folders in your computer and dumping them on the desktop. Programs, documents, videos, audio files—you put thousands of stored items randomly on top of each other.

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What to Do When You Don’t Feel Like Doing Anything

Success

I’ll give you a good example—I don’t particularly like to exercise, but I do almost every day. As another example—perhaps you are a salesman who has been phoning clients for a week straight, day and night. This article was published in June 2009 and has been updated. Most of the time I am just feeling lazy.

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Marketing Drives Traffic: Sales People Make or Break the Outcome

Make or Break Moments

One person was behind the desk, I was no more than five feet away and talking to her when she picked up the phone and called a vendor, totally ignoring my presence. Yet, a phone call appeared to be more important than engaging me in even trivial conversation. Lesson Learned: One way to create sales is to get people into the store.

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Hearing the Message

Office Dynamics

Do you hear the ‘ Ring, Ring’ of the Get-a-Clue phone? Not long after, I had phone call with a close friend that has known me since high school. What example am I setting for our teenage daughter about pursuing dreams at a fairly expensive price? Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009).

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paralyzed by the need to be perfect?

Job Advice Blog

For example, fear you won’t be liked. Your cell phone rings – Don’t answer it. On October 6, 2010, In Career Coaching by Judi Perkins , By The How-To Career Coach 1 Perfection is an overrated concept. Even those who know it’s unattainable try for it when they interview. What’s the result? Nervousness. Fear that you won’t be asked back.

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