Productivityist

JANUARY 29, 2013

Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact How an Editor Makes for More Productive Online Writing Posted on 01/29/2013 // 4 Comments When I was an editor, my goal was to make whatever a writer had submitted better and yet still maintain the voice and tone of the original work.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

I have dropped the ball a lot, even though I knew that picking it up again was going to be on my radar soon enough. Additionally, I’ve paired those attributes up with being realistic. James Clear had a great post recently about using schedule more than goals to accomplish things.

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 16, 2010

Try some of the following exercises next time you’re waiting for your turn to stand up and speak: 4) Breathe When your muscles tighten and you feel nervous, you may not be breathing deeply enough. Starting with your toes and calf muscles, tighten your muscles up through your body finally making a fist (i.e.,

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Loosely Speaking

JANUARY 13, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Can Virtual Assistants provide social networking support? As a hot new niche market, it’s natural that training programs have sprung up for VAs who want to offer this service. I don’t know where I would be without her!

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Loosely Speaking

JANUARY 2, 2009

see photo below ) Now you’ll create a series of long stitches that go from one side of the hole to the other (like setting up one of those potholder looms when you were little). Leave a tail of yarn that is about 3 inches long, which you’ll weave in to hide and secure when done darning. (

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Loosely Speaking

OCTOBER 18, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs On the needles October 2008 Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 10:04 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Knitting Frenetic. Without some mind clearing time every day, I believe we end up in the realm of mind numb, wherein we lose both our perspective and sense of self.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact 2012: My Year in Review Posted on 12/30/2012 // Leave a Comment Last year I offered up a year in review post , and i’m doing it again this year. You can pick up the books by going here. ) You can pick up the books by going here. ) Didn’t happen. I will turn 38.

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Productivityist

JULY 24, 2012

Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact A Return to OmniFocus Posted on 07/24/2012 // 12 Comments Today I’m offering up another admission. Thanks for reading and for offering up your thoughts. and it’s a big one. I’ve gone back to OmniFocus. But it works for me because the work still gets done.

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Men With Pens

MAY 11, 2010

Jeff (the gentle, kind soul that he is) pointed out that fact to me recently during a conversation on future goals, amazing plans, business ventures and ultimate world domination involving oceanfront property, beach houses and frosty daiquiris sipped to soft jazz playing in the backgr-… Sorry. Well, have fun changing things up a bit.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 18, 2010

Johnn and Yax have upped the ante quite a bit – and we were pretty impressed, because we frankly couldn’t see much to improve. New Dynamic Checklist System We all know how hard it can be to keep on top of our goals if we can’t see our progress. And you can do it for free, if you’re one of the first five people who sign up.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 28, 2010

It could even end up causing damage to your business as you try to fit the square-shaped suggestions into your round-shaped business. Contact us today – we’ll help your website make your life more efficient, more productive and more lucrative so you can reach your goals of success. That should go right up there with Niebu.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I could throw the text book definition of project management at you… Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. … Quite often projects overlap, in that you are winding one down, while starting one up.

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BMT Office Administration

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Asana also has some robust reporting features, allowing users to monitor task progress in real-time, set goals and milestones, and keep track of how busy your employees are with your tasks. First, let’s see how each program stacks up in terms of general task management. Set goals/deadlines. FAQ section.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 13, 2010

I’m on a bunch of lists I never signed up for. I’ve happily signed up for all kinds of email lists. I get lots of coupons in the mail for companies I frequent, because I signed up to receive those coupons. It’s way easier to just buy a list or automatically sign people up without their express opt-in. They didn’t.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

Here’s how it works: Go gather up all the books on the subject you need to be better at if your business is going to succeed. Learning how to learn was my goal. Right now I’m ghostwriting a western novel, studying up on “soiled doves,&# horse markings, Texas landscapes and stagecoach construction.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 23, 2010

I’m not going to say that thing I’m not supposed to say , but I might as well give up on calling Ali Hale a guest poster. If you want to make money writing, you’re far more likely to achieve the goal through non-fiction. I mix up left and right. I make up the world and I decide the plot twists.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

So you sign up for courses. Customers end up with spiffy businesses that rake in clients and money, and the freelancer goes barefoot, with a neglected business that’s falling apart. If you never work on improving your business, it’ll never be able to help you reach your goals. You must be missing something.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 25, 2010

It proved successful right up to the time when it entered the Chinese market, where it took a nasty left turn. Be willing to change your copy to meet a goal. Sometimes I write a post weeks before I post it, but when I re-read it I find its not achieving the goal I want. And when you think you know it all, keep digging.

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Men With Pens

JULY 18, 2010

By the time you lift your head up, you might be mightily surprised to realize you need to check your speed or make a sharp turn – and you aren’t ready. Most people need another rider to take the course first before they’ll step up to the gate for their turn. There’s a whole course to complete. The result?

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 16, 2010

Now James stood in the doorway, the mud spit up by the old bike’s back tire forming grey-brown clumps on his white t-shirt. When people type what they’re looking for into Google or another search engine, keywords may help your site show up in the returns for their search term. Now he’d have to set things up far too publicly.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 1, 2010

Run a contest This is a great way to drum up interest in your services. Just make sure you pay up in the end. It does help to build up your audience a little before you try it though. The last time I used that technique, I uncovered about 50 potential clients and ended up working with 8 or so. Joshua – Yes!

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Instead of building themselves up, they started tearing their clients down. No telling them that they’re wusses, or cowards, or anything of the kind, even if it’s supposed to fire them up. Go read my blog for a few hours and get psyched up. I like your before/after examples that light up the point. Yes, even in jest.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 25, 2010

Anyways, he sent in this great guest post, and I wanted to post it up on a Friday, but then there was… that… thing I had to do. And… well, it’s a bit late but… I finally got this post up for you to read (to the end) and enjoy. Draw that 3-D box where you can’t tell whether the open end is pointing up or down.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 16, 2010

So you’re up there on a cloud or something and some other spirit-guy, maybe your friend, comes by your cloud and says, “Hey. If the world had ended and you were up on a cloud right now thinking about it, would you have been proud of yesterday? Especially since I have to get up early and get back to work. I went to sleep.”

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Men With Pens

MAY 26, 2010

You bashed monsters by hitting keys on your keyboard whilst wondering if you could hook up a nodding bird à la Homer Simpson. Hey, I’ll spent all evening hitting some buttons so that a number in a database somewhere slooowly goes up.) Having accountability in that way can definitely help drive us towards our goals.

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Men With Pens

JULY 4, 2010

It’s important to remember that the goal of writing is to have the words read and get the message across. Sounds a little crazy, but when you know your perfect writing voice is smooth like cognac or bright like strawberries, it opens up a whole new world of style. Statements. Why Are We Writing in the First Place? A stripper.

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MAY 26, 2021

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Men With Pens

APRIL 20, 2010

We like people who can acknowledge their imperfections, people who admit they screw it up not just sometimes, but often, and the people who can say, “Yeah, I’m really scared too, but I’m going to do it anyway.” Human beings who get knocked down and have to get up and try again. If anything, perfection kind of pisses us off.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 21, 2010

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. One thing I’ve seen is that it’s imperative to have your own voice, but your own voice may be out of sync with your own goals.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

I earn good money, set my own hours, and I don’t have to deal with the stress of traffic, corporate politics, and an office full of idiots and suck-ups. You’re going to need it someday when the smoking and fatty deli sandwiches catch up with you. Oh, and no ties. I hate ties. I work in jeans and Hawaiian shirts.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

That inspirational pat on the back shows up from time to time in my work, and it’s posts like this one about losing everything and this one about finding faith in your dreams again that leave me feeling good just for reading them. Our blog archives are our history, in more ways than just which post went up on that day.

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Men With Pens

JULY 11, 2010

People like to be cheerleaders with inspirational rah-rah-stick-with-it-good-things-will-come-chin-up encouragement. Here’s a thought: What if that dropping readership, that dwindling traffic and that lack of discussion lets you invest your time in better projects, ones that help you get closer to your goals?

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Productivityist

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I began thinking about how I’m watching my son, Colton , grow up in front of my eyes every single day ever since I took on this stay-at-home adventure nearly two years ago. I reflected on how much my daughter, Grace, has grown up so quickly and can hardly imagine her at Colton’s age now that she’s going on eight.

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Productivityist

JULY 4, 2012

Little did I know that I would end up writing about productivity on my blog and teaching it to those around me at work. It’s sort of like updating your OS- it gives you an excuse to clean house and back things up. What she was really pointing out was that I was changing things up for the sake of well, changing things up.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 4, 2010

If you have trouble knowing what your five-year plan is, sit down with someone who can help you discover your true desires, develop a milestone plan and get you progressing towards those goals. And what’s holding you back from finally deciding to fix it up better than ever? The sky’s the limit.

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Productivityist

JUNE 29, 2015

If this is uncomfortable for you, be sure to read their security FAQ to learn more about the process. If, for example, the majority of your emails are sent by a colleague two workstations away, treat this as an opportunity to get up from your chair and handle the request face-to-face rather than by communicating by email.

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Men With Pens

JULY 25, 2010

All sorts of people are cropping up with posts of deep, meaningful wisdom or challenging views on their blogs, profound personal philosophies delivered with grave sincerity of a Hindu guru scattered across the internet. We like authority and people who have conviction, who stand up and speak their mind with confidence. I like that one.

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