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Writing Tips from Blackbeard the Pirate

Men With Pens

If you’re trying to forge a niche for yourself as a writer, then you could definitely learn a few lessons from this scurvy pirate. He set the benchmark for piracy in his time, conducting daring campaigns, blockading the Charleston harbour, capturing ship after ship and striking fear in the hearts of sailors up and down the coast.

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Answering Reader Mail: 7 Tips on Attire, Scheduling & Etiquette

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I am learning time zones and currencies and every day I am shaking in my boots that it might be too much but I want it so dang bad! For example, I set up a sales dial-in call with about 40 people from every continent on the call. I’m doing this thing I learned at one of the four other job jumps I did. My CEO is new.

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It's all in how you feel

Laughing all the Way to Work

I recall the first day of school feeling so smart in my new clothes as I proudly walked to meet my friends. Why not take the time to tidy up a bit. Make it a comfortable work area to free you up to do your job well. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. 411 Look Up 411.ca Keep things orderly.

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Monty Python Officeland

Laughing all the Way to Work

Since I got in at 9 and my boss was in an hour before me, I knew he had probably seen it already so decided to suck it up and just go in and ask him. I thought somebody ought to tell her, so I caught up to her and it turned out to be someone from my own office. The funniest was the gym clothes. It was hooked to her belt loop.

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How To Build Reputation With A Blog – Create Value

Brilliantly Better

That’s a key point and a very important question for every blogger who had been wrecked more than one keyboard writing. You will also have to do some tidying up, editing your cover artwork and making the pages look good, which you usually don’t do at your blog (your theme does this for you). Why would you want to convert that traffic?

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Why You Don't Need to Mimic Someone Else's Fame | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

The fact that he is still slightly amazed about his fame makes his posts interesting, in that he brings up questions that I think we should all ask ourselves. I really can’t screw up too badly. It’s fun, but it’s not like I sit at my keyboard, occasionally throwing my arms into the air and squealing, “Wheeeeeee! I’m writing!”

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Creative Mind Cleaning | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

A fool takes in all the lumber of any sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or is at best jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has difficultly laying his hands upon it. Possibly behind that couch in the corner, the one buried under boxes and old clothes.

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