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Introducing a New Take on Valentine’s Day: ValenTime’s Day

Productivityist

While we often show our love and appreciation for others through gifts and special gestures, it’s equally important to show love to ourselves and the most precious resource we have: time. Give yourself the gift of time by decluttering and simplifying your life. Spend time with the people you love, and make it quality time.

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How to Create a Powerful, Future-Proof Culture for Remote and Decentralized Teams

Allwork

We encourage people to propose new ideas even when they’re outside the scope of their traditional roles. Use a cultural calendar to avoid setting meetings on holidays. At goLance , one of our strongest cultural values is the importance of teamwork. If you need to present the same content to teams globally, set up multiple meetings.

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The 10 Best Books I Read In 2016

Productivityist

I received How to Read a Book as a gift in a book exchange this year, and it is the first book on my reading list starting January 1. This is another fantastic book by Ryan Holiday. By the way, Blinkist is offering a great promotion for the holiday season. I’m going to read fewer books in 2017. Ego is the Enemy (Print).

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Here’s how your climate-related choices are contagious (in a good way!)

Ideas.Ted

Then, just before Christmas two years ago, my husband surprised me by saying he’d bought us solar panels as a holiday gift. . Similarly, five years ago I didn’t know of more than one or two homes in our city of over a quarter million people that had rooftop panels. What’s “efficacy”?

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How to Put Rumors to Rest

Men With Pens

An even HUGER section on how to handle your clients, including how to write a proposal that gets accepted , how to give the perfect quote, how to nail that first draft, and how to handle clients that are straight-up jerks. Lots of ways to get you off your ass and into your new career as a web writer. Regards, Kelly Kelly´s last blog.

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Realistic Freelancing |

Men With Pens

MCE Holiday Gift Guide—for you, for customers, and for special people on your list Reply poch November 25, 2009 at 8:13 am This is now getting to be a problem of mine as a freelancer. The Winning Proposal: A Review Reply Briana Malmstrom ( @Calavera_Kid ) November 25, 2009 at 11:54 am I always have trouble sticking with business hours.

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

Men With Pens

With that trust, i can offer my professional opinion on a topic, or proposed course of action that is reinforced with the weight of the trust i have created with my customers. It also means I don’t have to pitch, propose, or do gratis consulting. Did they like me afterwords? Get the picture? Iain Broome´s last blog.

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