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Happy (belated) New Year!

ProAssisting Blog

ProAssisting came into being last year and this year our goal is to expand upon the great successes we’ve had so far… Just to re-cap, in addition to becoming a featured writer for Monster’s AdminSecret , we had a very robust beta testing period thanks to their community of assistants who put our training through its paces.

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Writing Tips from Blackbeard the Pirate

Men With Pens

This frees up your time and energy to focus on growing your business and finding writing assignments that better match your skills. You can get her weekly newsletter of marketing tips when you download her FREE ebook: Unleash the Beast: Releasing Your Inner Creative Monster. Another rockin' post from Men with Pens!

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Why Your Excuses Won’t Fly – or Get You What You Want

Men With Pens

I brought up my issues with a couple of therapists skilled in the fear department. It’s kind of like shining a light on the monster under the bed and finding a bunch of harmless dust bunnies. Copyright 2006 - 2010 30 Sous Zero Inc - All Rights Reserved. I made a show of trying to overcome my fear of flying, of course.

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The Subtle Comfort Of The Discomfort Zone

Brilliantly Better

But the distance from my comfort zone of being a regular PHP programmer to becoming a skilled and effective Objective C programmer is huge. It’s impossible to develop your skills without reaching the edges our competences. Objective C is still a very disturbing place for me, although I spend a few hours in that realm every day.

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How to Wrestle Deadlines and Win (Even When You Think You Can’t)

Men With Pens

Writers aren’t known for their planning and scheduling skills, after all – but nail deadlines, and you’ve turned yourself away from flaky and straight onto fantastically competent. By the time you realise that you have a monster in your world, it often seems like it’s too late to hit that deadline. Take heart.

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The “Ants” Situation

Brilliantly Better

I think it might be the time for Bianca to see Monsters’ Inc and Bug Life. Cleaning up makes sense and is something everybody should do from time to time. But your ant-experience shows once again that there is a balance in nature and nobody should mess with it. It might help with her fears. Rajesh : Very good list and i lked it.

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Do Clients Need to Like You to Buy? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

How I Built My Twitter Marketing Monster From 1 to 36,000 Reply poch January 11, 2010 at 9:19 am Not ‘Check Your Facts Before You State Them’ This is one of the 10 deadly business mistakes in the Online Profits ebook. If two people have the same skills and price point, I’m obviously going to work with the person that I like.

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