Small Business Labs

JANUARY 22, 2014

.  Key quote: "Retailers got only about half the holiday traffic in 2013 as they did just three years earlier, according to ShopperTrak, which uses a network of 60,000 shopper-counting devices to track visits at malls and large retailers across the country. But people aren't just buying online. in 2011, 16.3%

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Productivityist

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

For the past two years, Productivityist has published an annual gift guide that features gifts that won’t just help the “productivityist” get more of the right things done, but they’ll have some tools that they can use that will make the process all the more enjoyable. FitDesk Yep. I ride a bike at work. Enter Full.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I decided to pull out this Monday Motivator from 2013 because it is a favorite of mine, still holds true and in fact, I believe it to be truer than ever before. Since I wrote this in 2013, I have expanded my mind to the worlds of: Focus instead of multitasking. What don’t you like that they do or say? Being revolutionary.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 15, 2013

NOTE: Monday Motivators will be taking a holiday break for Christmas (December 25) and New Year’s Day (January 1). It’s been a great year, and I can’t thank you enough for joining us in our continuing journey to promote workplace excellence and administrative effectiveness! It’s the holidays! Learn more.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 19, 2012

The holidays are here. During the holidays, most freelancers let their business fall off the priority list. The holidays are the perfect time to work on improving your business! Don’t get me wrong: You should absolutely spend time with your family. Just don’t get lazy and walk away from the money.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Are your Mondays getting harder and harder during the holiday season? If you''re like me, your weekends are packed with activity and flurry getting ready for the holidays and maybe just having fun with family and friends. It''s pretty hard to shift gears sometimes, isn''t it? Don''t put on the news; it''s usually depressing.).

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Productivityist

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

For the past two years, Productivityist has published an annual gift guide that features gifts that won''t just help the "productivityist" get more of the right things done, but they''ll have some tools that they can use that will make the process all the more enjoyable. It''s a durable bag and won''t make huge dent in your wallet, either.

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 6, 2013

I imagine many of you are just returning to work after a long holiday break. For the first time in 22 years, we closed our office during the entire holiday from December 20 through January 2. There were only a few times throughout the holiday I checked e-mail and responded. So what do I want to do in 2013? So you give up.

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Success

APRIL 1, 2023

Baseball umpire Nestor Ceja is well aware of who is walking in his direction near second base on this warm May evening in San Antonio, Texas. It’s Phillip Wellman. The men in blue calling the balls, strikes and outs on the bases don’t have smartphones at hand like the rest of us watching the game from the stands or on TV.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

NOTE: Monday Motivators will be taking a holiday for Thanksgiving (November 26). If you think it’s still too soon to start planning your professional and personal goals for 2013, I want to encourage you to think again! If you don’t set goals and map out a plan, you will be at the same place next year as you are today.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Now that you have survived Halloween, we are on to the next holiday. I really don’t believe that we “arrive.” Financial: What must I do to financially prepare for the holidays? 2013 Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence. Today, I want to focus on what achievement means to you. Your Career.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

November 25, 2013. If it weren’t for you and your gracious notes of appreciation, I would not still be writing Monday Motivators. If it weren’t for you and your gracious notes of appreciation, I would not still be writing Monday Motivators. Wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving holiday! Share below.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 21, 2013

The problem is that with all of these different perspectives and philosophies it can also create turmoil and drama when we don’t see eye-to-eye. Differences don’t have to lead to disagreement. ” Compromise is very important when planning family events or celebrating holidays. Contest ends July 31, 2013.'

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 2, 2012

I don’t want to scare you but…brace yourself… we’re in the final stretch of 2012 ! It’s now officially “Q4″ and you know what that means: The holidays are just around the corner. Before you know it, we’ll be writing 2013 on our checks. Don’t panic. You got this, man!

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 8, 2012

Well, if this person is a productivityist — or at least needs to look at becoming more productive — then you should give The Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide for 2012 a good look. It’s a long read, but it may just spark some gift ideas you hadn’t considered. Field Notes. Frictionless Capture Cards.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This week marks the release of The NOW Year: Version 1.1 – just in time for the holiday break. through Amazon , but you won''t get the EPUB and PDF versions through that purchasing method.). Before I wrap things up here and enjoy the holiday break, I wanted to touch on the ending of yet another calendar year. Information'

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The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Have you caught yourself dreaming about how 2013 “will be different”? It’s because the end of the world means that your decisions don’t matter. We want to indulge ourselves with fantasies about how amazing our 2013 will be. But it won’t. This thinking is pandemic at this time of year.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I hope you’ll pick up a copy (or several) this holiday season. 1 Unfortunately, amazon and other online resellers don’t offer pre-orders for e-books, so if you don’t use iBooks then you’ll have to wait until Christmas Day to get your hands on it.

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Energage

JANUARY 31, 2017

Goodman, whose background includes both customer service and accounting, joined AI in 2013. We don’t recruit for talent. We don’t have televisions in our office. The radio isn’t playing. We don’t have newspapers delivered,” Goodman said. But it’s no tiki bar. We recruit for culture.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I spent about 90 minutes viewing videos from our 2012 Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence to extract clips for our ‘Event of Distinction’ trailer video for our 2013 conference. But I was so happy with myself after I made these special cookies as I didn’t think I could do it; I was so out of touch with baking.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 4, 2013

These smart magazines aren’t just specific publications, either. If you haven’t here are some ones you can check out that are part of my regular reading regimen. Related Stories The 2013 Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide How to Avoid the Bad Meeting Trap The NOW Year is Now Here. SUCCESS Magazine.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 14, 2014

I''ve stopped using Launch Center Pro for most forms of capturing information, and as such don''t really use it to launch any notetaking or writing apps like Evernote or Byword. There are certain things I don''t use Drafts for, however. I don''t use Drafts for messaging or email composition. Don''t dive in too deep at first.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 31, 2013

That''s why they''ll spend money on something like OmniFocus or Things and abandon them because they seem to complicated or they''ll sign up for something like Asana or Evernote thinking that it can handle task management in a manner that is easy to set up and make happen (spoiler alert: it isn''t that easy). Gneo ( iOS ) is another one.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Ryan Holiday wrote something similar in his book, The Obstacle is the Way , quoting Marcus Aurelius, “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” For Vaynerchuk this was the same story. His obstacle was that people didn’t know much about wine so he had to educate them. Know your stuff. Tell a story.

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