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The holiday season is the time for carols, mistletoe, crackling fires, hot cocoa, and presents under the tree. To help secure your home, here are some expert-approved holiday home safety tips to prevent fire, injury, and break-ins. That said, if you sometimes neglect this household chore, the holidays are a great time to get back on track. Keep your bushes trimmed and avoid large blow-up decor during the holidays. What other holiday home safety tip can you share? MORE
by Holiday travel season is coming up! Republished by Blog Post Promoter The post Packing List for Holiday Travel appeared first on Clutter Coach. If you’re going somewhere, use a packing list. It will ease your travel considerably. I use checklists a lot, all kinds of them. They’re very helpful for making sure nothing falls through the cracks, and I get the satisfaction of checking off items as I do them. MORE
Food Fun Happiness Holiday How To Organization Recipe Shopping The period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve is the time for socializing, and for many of us, that means going to parties—and giving them. MORE
Holiday gift-giving can often involve throngs of people, stress and out-of-stock items. Today we look at how to simplify holiday shopping to make it easy. The post 4 Ways To Simplify Holiday Shopping (+ bonus) appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog. MORE
And for me, that means gearing up for the holiday season. So today we launch… The Simple Holiday Preparation Ecourse. This course takes all the components of the holiday season and simplifies, organizes, and helps you make them do-able on your schedule. But… Let’s get one thing out on the table here: this course will not help you get the time to create a Martha Stewart/Norman Rockwell holiday season. How much is a calmer holiday season worth to you? MORE
It’s incredible just how much paper we use around the holidays. Whether you’ve baked a warm winter casserole for the family or thrown a holiday party for 20, you’ll have plenty of dishes to do this winter season. Many families will deck their halls with a holiday tree this winter. MORE
This weekend is another Bank Holiday weekend in the UK, but unfortunately many micro business owners and self-employed people are not able to enjoy the luxury of taking the workday off. Top 5 Tips bank holidays MORE
Happy Holidays and see you in 2018 We're on vacation for the rest of the year. MORE
If you’re guilty of any of these common financial blunders due to the holidays, then it’s time to learn some holiday budget tips. Creating a budget is a necessity, whether it’s the holidays or beyond. Not planning for the holidays. Holiday Money MORE
The holidays are coming up quick and it’s time for Eco-Office Gals to get in the giving spirit. Christmas cards or holiday catalogs may be on the holiday horizon. PFL prints Holiday cards, business cards, note cards, catalogs, stationery, brochures and more. MORE
The list contains all the presents I have bought so far for Christmas, what I have left to buy and all the things I need to do before I take time off for the holidays. When you're facing the holiday season with more personal demands, that stress can grow. MORE
As though buying gifts for the holidays isn’t difficult enough, the shopping season is shorter than usual this year, with less than four weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Happiness Holiday Money Shopping MORE
Most employees take their annual leave , have a great time away, occasionally check their blackberry and think no more about work except on their return when they show their colleagues a few holiday snaps and say they had a good time… Well as assistants we know that we are not most employees! MORE
For parents that work at home, the summer holidays present a whole new set of challenges that have to be met. Although people might say it’s great that you don’t need to pay for childcare,… Read the full article here: Summer Holiday Working Tips on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG. MORE
In the post earlier I talked about holidays, but neglected to mention what I personally favour. I was recently interviewed for MyTravelMoney about this blog and my holiday activities. Business Trends holiday MORE
If you’re a parent who’s been laid off at work and can barely pay this month’s rent, much less buy presents, the holiday may look pretty bleak. Here are a few ways to fight off the holiday blues. Communicating Fear Fun Happiness Health Holiday Lifehacks Stress MORE
However, more and more eco-hotels are offering attractive, all inclusive holidays. Post from: Eco-Office Gals 3 Eco-Tourism All Inclusive Holidays for 2012. Eco-tourism continues to grow in popularity as awareness about finite resources continues to increase. MORE
Here’s how you can ensure the best villa holidays for families no matter where you choose to vacation. No matter if you prefer to find a place inside a city or one that’s a bit more remote, you will want to keep your family safe and happy while on holiday. If you’re hoping for a beachfront villa, it will be a major disappointment to arrive at your holiday house to find your villa’s views obstructed by hotels. Holiday How To Travel MORE
At its core, the discussions don’t seem to me to be as much about whether or not they should be open, but about the notion that people deserve to have the holiday. So I also don’t feel badly for people who take the jobs knowing that, sooner or later, holiday work will be a reality. MORE
by The current economy may end up making this year's holidays less stressful, just because we won't be shopping and traveling as much. But if you find yourself feeling stressed by holiday planning and the looming prospect of a new year, keep these in mind: Make lists to prevent tasks from being forgotten in the chaos. If list items aren't coming to mind, reflect on past fun holidays and visualize what you want for this year. MORE
I just received this article written by Lynn Gaertner-Johnston of Syntax Training and wanted to pass it along to you as it has some great tips for holiday messaging. Stacey Brown If your job involves helping people through difficult times--for example, if you are in emergency medicine, law, nursing homes, hospice, insurance, or mortuary and executor services--remember your clients during the holidays, which may be difficult for them. Words for Holiday Messages. MORE
For many sole traders and entrepreneurs in micro businesses who read this blog, a holiday is not quite the same for them as their friends who work in a 9-5 office environment. Often by necessity, a self-employed person’s idea of a holiday has to involve work in some capacity. Even when they go away, there… Read the full article here: Is your holiday a working holiday? Business Trends holiday MORE
The thought of the holidays approaching means different things to us all. But for many, the holidays are synonymous with family turmoil, burn out and dread. Brain Happiness Holiday How To Lifehacks Relationships Stress Here we are again. MORE
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. Better yet, play holiday music while you dress. MORE
by Holiday travel season is coming up! Republished by Blog Post Promoter The post Packing List for Holiday Travel appeared first on Clutter Coach. If you’re going somewhere, use a packing list. It will ease your travel considerably. I use checklists a lot, all kinds of them. They’re very helpful for making sure nothing falls through the cracks, and I get the satisfaction of checking off items as I do them. MORE
Christmas Card Logo 2016 – holiday video. The post Christmas Card Logo 2016 – holiday video appeared first on Video Editing Service & Internet Marketing Virtual Assistant. Wintery scene, full moon, with Santa and reindeer flying across the sky. For pricing and to order – [link]. Andrea Kalli – Video Services – Editing and Marketing. MORE
With the fluctuating currency market and uncertain climate, more holidaymakers are choosing to ‘staycation’ – taking a holiday in their home country. But how about taking your staycation one step further and actually taking a holiday in your home town? Of course you might be able to enjoy your staycation from your own home but a hotel gives you a week of freedom from making your bed, cleaning and completing household chores – the stuff we take for granted on holiday. MORE
by The current economy may end up making this year's holidays less stressful, just because we won't be shopping and traveling as much. But if you find yourself feeling stressed by holiday planning and the looming prospect of a new year, keep these in mind: Make lists to prevent tasks from being forgotten in the chaos. If list items aren't coming to mind, reflect on past fun holidays and visualize what you want for this year. MORE
Hiring holiday help is a common practice around the holidays, particularly for retailers. Did you know that any business can benefit from teaming up with a virtual services professional for the holiday season? If you’re wondering just how it might work for you and/or your business, check out the list below: Give them your client list and have them use a service like Send Out Cards to make sure they all get a holiday greeting from you. MORE
How is your holiday planning going? Here’s the great news: you CAN have an organized, sane, in-budget holiday season — with just a few hours of effort. I used to do holidays as my family had done, the full-on American version of the Christian holiday of Christmas. MORE
An example of our other interests is time with our family over the holidays. Happy Holidays to all and see you in January We had an interesting discussion last week on how small business owners define success. We explained they tend to define success as meeting personal goals and objectives. We We also explained that most small business owners aren't interested in building or running a high growth business. We used our firm, Emergent Research, as an example. MORE
It dawned on me tonight that the holidays are almost here. Next week is Thanksgiving in the US – the start of the headlong rush into the holiday season. It’s not that I don’t do a lot of things at the holidays. It’s not about stark holidays, either. MORE
Happy Holidays to all from Small Business Labs. See you next year. MORE
Here are a few ways you can bring joy to the world this holiday. Fun Happiness Heros Holiday Relationships This is supposed to be the season of giving, but for too many of us, it’s just the time for eating too much, running up huge bills and general conspicuous consumption. MORE
Have you started plotting your excuse to get out of the holiday party yet? Some people truly dread the office holiday celebration, for a bunch of different reasons. You will miss the boss wearing an ugly holiday sweater that his Nana made for him 10 years ago. MORE
The post Holiday Time Management Tip – Share the Workload appeared first on Ian's Messy Desk. There’s nothing like a major holiday, such as Christmas , to ratchet up the pressure on your schedule. Holidays can add the expectation of the personal touch to all that happens. MORE
Here are five tips to help you woo her this holiday season. Surprise her this holiday season by planning a date together. It’s so easy to make the holidays all about the kids. But why not teach your children when they are young that life—and holidays—aren’t always about them? MORE
It's December, the time of year when our thoughts are drawn to holiday festivities and the purchase of gifts. The holidays give us the perfect time to do a little something for our clients. Of course this decision leads to the question; What should I give my clients as a holiday gift? MORE
Nearly 70% of Americans look forward to the holidays. Make your holidays a lot better with this food and wine pairing guide. Pinot noir, upheld as one of the most popular holiday wines, fits in well with traditional holiday dinners. Food Happiness Holiday MORE
Holidays Alberta Family Family Day Ontario SaskatchewanImage via Wikipedia. Today is Family Day in Alberta , Saskatchewan and Ontario. Yesterday, we had children, grand-children and friends over for a big family dinner. MORE
Here are a few last-minute tips so your business doesn’t stall while you and everyone else — are enjoying the holidays. Put the word out in your ezine, blog, and social media, before you head out for the holidays. What better time than the holiday season to connect with people? You may not have time to create a new information product before the holidays, but you can bring back a favorite for a couple of weeks. by Donna Toothaker. MORE
The holiday season is beginning to ramp up, and your thoughts may be consumed by Black Friday deals or how to make your nana's pecan pie. How about a "happy-holidays-and-I'd like- to-connect" message via LinkedIn? MORE
For too many of us, the holiday season is an excuse to eat, drink and be merry. Food Happiness Health Holiday Lifehacks This month-long orgy of self-indulgence can leave us with regrets—and too-tight clothes—come January. MORE
I’ve been quiet over the holidays. Trying to keep up with work, holidays and life in general has been overwhelming. Robert was able to create what the client needed, on the heels of the holidays and he did a great job! Post from: Eco-Office Gals A Post Holiday Thank You! MORE
Holidays Related Topics Tips From T. Marie
DECEMBER 7, 2018
It's December, the time of year when our thoughts are drawn to holiday festivities and the purchase of gifts. The holidays give us the perfect time to do a little something for our clients. Of course this decision leads to the question; What should I give my clients as a holiday gift?
Dumb Little Man
NOVEMBER 21, 2018
Nearly 70% of Americans look forward to the holidays. Make your holidays a lot better with this food and wine pairing guide. Pinot noir, upheld as one of the most popular holiday wines, fits in well with traditional holiday dinners. Food Happiness Holiday
The Small Business Blog
AUGUST 16, 2013
In the post earlier I talked about holidays, but neglected to mention what I personally favour. I was recently interviewed for MyTravelMoney about this blog and my holiday activities. Business Trends holiday
Dumb Little Man
OCTOBER 26, 2018
If you’re guilty of any of these common financial blunders due to the holidays, then it’s time to learn some holiday budget tips. Creating a budget is a necessity, whether it’s the holidays or beyond. Not planning for the holidays. Holiday Money
The Small Business Blog
AUGUST 16, 2013
For many sole traders and entrepreneurs in micro businesses who read this blog, a holiday is not quite the same for them as their friends who work in a 9-5 office environment. Often by necessity, a self-employed person’s idea of a holiday has to involve work in some capacity. Even when they go away, there… Read the full article here: Is your holiday a working holiday? Business Trends holiday
The Small Business Blog
MAY 23, 2014
This weekend is another Bank Holiday weekend in the UK, but unfortunately many micro business owners and self-employed people are not able to enjoy the luxury of taking the workday off. Top 5 Tips bank holidays
Small Business Labs
DECEMBER 22, 2017
Happy Holidays and see you in 2018 We're on vacation for the rest of the year.
The Small Business Blog
AUGUST 9, 2013
For parents that work at home, the summer holidays present a whole new set of challenges that have to be met. Although people might say it’s great that you don’t need to pay for childcare,… Read the full article here: Summer Holiday Working Tips on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG.
Dumb Little Man
DECEMBER 18, 2013
If you’re a parent who’s been laid off at work and can barely pay this month’s rent, much less buy presents, the holiday may look pretty bleak. Here are a few ways to fight off the holiday blues. Communicating Fear Fun Happiness Health Holiday Lifehacks Stress
Dumb Little Man
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
The thought of the holidays approaching means different things to us all. But for many, the holidays are synonymous with family turmoil, burn out and dread. Brain Happiness Holiday How To Lifehacks Relationships Stress Here we are again.
Office Dynamics
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
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. Better yet, play holiday music while you dress.
Eco-Office Gals
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
It’s incredible just how much paper we use around the holidays. Whether you’ve baked a warm winter casserole for the family or thrown a holiday party for 20, you’ll have plenty of dishes to do this winter season. Many families will deck their halls with a holiday tree this winter.
Simple Productivity Blog
DECEMBER 3, 2014
Holiday gift-giving can often involve throngs of people, stress and out-of-stock items. Today we look at how to simplify holiday shopping to make it easy. The post 4 Ways To Simplify Holiday Shopping (+ bonus) appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog.
Practically Perfect PA
APRIL 23, 2012
Most employees take their annual leave , have a great time away, occasionally check their blackberry and think no more about work except on their return when they show their colleagues a few holiday snaps and say they had a good time… Well as assistants we know that we are not most employees!
Dumb Little Man
DECEMBER 27, 2017
The holiday season is the time for carols, mistletoe, crackling fires, hot cocoa, and presents under the tree. To help secure your home, here are some expert-approved holiday home safety tips to prevent fire, injury, and break-ins. That said, if you sometimes neglect this household chore, the holidays are a great time to get back on track. Keep your bushes trimmed and avoid large blow-up decor during the holidays. What other holiday home safety tip can you share?
Small Business Labs
DECEMBER 24, 2013
Happy Holidays to all from Small Business Labs. See you next year.
Dumb Little Man
DECEMBER 15, 2013
Food Fun Happiness Holiday How To Organization Recipe Shopping The period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve is the time for socializing, and for many of us, that means going to parties—and giving them.
Eco-Office Gals
OCTOBER 21, 2010
The holidays are coming up quick and it’s time for Eco-Office Gals to get in the giving spirit. Christmas cards or holiday catalogs may be on the holiday horizon. PFL prints Holiday cards, business cards, note cards, catalogs, stationery, brochures and more.
Dumb Little Man
DECEMBER 11, 2013
Here are a few ways you can bring joy to the world this holiday. Fun Happiness Heros Holiday Relationships This is supposed to be the season of giving, but for too many of us, it’s just the time for eating too much, running up huge bills and general conspicuous consumption.
Ian's Messy Desk
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
Holidays Alberta Family Family Day Ontario SaskatchewanImage via Wikipedia. Today is Family Day in Alberta , Saskatchewan and Ontario. Yesterday, we had children, grand-children and friends over for a big family dinner.
Ian's Messy Desk
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
The post Holiday Time Management Tip – Share the Workload appeared first on Ian's Messy Desk. There’s nothing like a major holiday, such as Christmas , to ratchet up the pressure on your schedule. Holidays can add the expectation of the personal touch to all that happens.
On The Job
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
The holiday season is beginning to ramp up, and your thoughts may be consumed by Black Friday deals or how to make your nana's pecan pie. How about a "happy-holidays-and-I'd like- to-connect" message via LinkedIn?
Eco-Office Gals
JUNE 22, 2011
However, more and more eco-hotels are offering attractive, all inclusive holidays. Post from: Eco-Office Gals 3 Eco-Tourism All Inclusive Holidays for 2012. Eco-tourism continues to grow in popularity as awareness about finite resources continues to increase.
Laughing all the Way to Work
NOVEMBER 11, 2011
I just received this article written by Lynn Gaertner-Johnston of Syntax Training and wanted to pass it along to you as it has some great tips for holiday messaging. Stacey Brown If your job involves helping people through difficult times--for example, if you are in emergency medicine, law, nursing homes, hospice, insurance, or mortuary and executor services--remember your clients during the holidays, which may be difficult for them. Words for Holiday Messages.
Dumb Little Man
MARCH 3, 2017
Here’s how you can ensure the best villa holidays for families no matter where you choose to vacation. No matter if you prefer to find a place inside a city or one that’s a bit more remote, you will want to keep your family safe and happy while on holiday. If you’re hoping for a beachfront villa, it will be a major disappointment to arrive at your holiday house to find your villa’s views obstructed by hotels. Holiday How To Travel
Clutter Coach
MARCH 23, 2016
by The current economy may end up making this year's holidays less stressful, just because we won't be shopping and traveling as much. But if you find yourself feeling stressed by holiday planning and the looming prospect of a new year, keep these in mind: Make lists to prevent tasks from being forgotten in the chaos. If list items aren't coming to mind, reflect on past fun holidays and visualize what you want for this year.
On The Job
DECEMBER 8, 2011
The list contains all the presents I have bought so far for Christmas, what I have left to buy and all the things I need to do before I take time off for the holidays. When you're facing the holiday season with more personal demands, that stress can grow.
Eco-Office Gals
DECEMBER 28, 2011
I’ve been quiet over the holidays. Trying to keep up with work, holidays and life in general has been overwhelming. Robert was able to create what the client needed, on the heels of the holidays and he did a great job! Post from: Eco-Office Gals A Post Holiday Thank You!
Clutter Coach
JANUARY 20, 2016
by The current economy may end up making this year's holidays less stressful, just because we won't be shopping and traveling as much. But if you find yourself feeling stressed by holiday planning and the looming prospect of a new year, keep these in mind: Make lists to prevent tasks from being forgotten in the chaos. If list items aren't coming to mind, reflect on past fun holidays and visualize what you want for this year.
Tips From T. Marie
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
Hiring holiday help is a common practice around the holidays, particularly for retailers. Did you know that any business can benefit from teaming up with a virtual services professional for the holiday season? If you’re wondering just how it might work for you and/or your business, check out the list below: Give them your client list and have them use a service like Send Out Cards to make sure they all get a holiday greeting from you.
Simple Productivity Blog
DECEMBER 8, 2010
How is your holiday planning going? Here’s the great news: you CAN have an organized, sane, in-budget holiday season — with just a few hours of effort. I used to do holidays as my family had done, the full-on American version of the Christian holiday of Christmas.
Andrea Kalli
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
Christmas Card Logo 2016 – holiday video. The post Christmas Card Logo 2016 – holiday video appeared first on Video Editing Service & Internet Marketing Virtual Assistant. Wintery scene, full moon, with Santa and reindeer flying across the sky. For pricing and to order – [link]. Andrea Kalli – Video Services – Editing and Marketing.
Dumb Little Man
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
With the fluctuating currency market and uncertain climate, more holidaymakers are choosing to ‘staycation’ – taking a holiday in their home country. But how about taking your staycation one step further and actually taking a holiday in your home town? Of course you might be able to enjoy your staycation from your own home but a hotel gives you a week of freedom from making your bed, cleaning and completing household chores – the stuff we take for granted on holiday.
Small Business Labs
DECEMBER 24, 2012
An example of our other interests is time with our family over the holidays. Happy Holidays to all and see you in January We had an interesting discussion last week on how small business owners define success. We explained they tend to define success as meeting personal goals and objectives. We We also explained that most small business owners aren't interested in building or running a high growth business. We used our firm, Emergent Research, as an example.
Virtual Moxie
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
At its core, the discussions don’t seem to me to be as much about whether or not they should be open, but about the notion that people deserve to have the holiday. So I also don’t feel badly for people who take the jobs knowing that, sooner or later, holiday work will be a reality.
Dumb Little Man
DECEMBER 14, 2013
For too many of us, the holiday season is an excuse to eat, drink and be merry. Food Happiness Health Holiday Lifehacks This month-long orgy of self-indulgence can leave us with regrets—and too-tight clothes—come January.
Dumb Little Man
DECEMBER 1, 2013
As though buying gifts for the holidays isn’t difficult enough, the shopping season is shorter than usual this year, with less than four weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Happiness Holiday Money Shopping
Simple Productivity Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
It dawned on me tonight that the holidays are almost here. Next week is Thanksgiving in the US – the start of the headlong rush into the holiday season. It’s not that I don’t do a lot of things at the holidays. It’s not about stark holidays, either.
On The Job
DECEMBER 4, 2017
Have you started plotting your excuse to get out of the holiday party yet? Some people truly dread the office holiday celebration, for a bunch of different reasons. You will miss the boss wearing an ugly holiday sweater that his Nana made for him 10 years ago.
Simple Productivity Blog
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
And for me, that means gearing up for the holiday season. So today we launch… The Simple Holiday Preparation Ecourse. This course takes all the components of the holiday season and simplifies, organizes, and helps you make them do-able on your schedule. But… Let’s get one thing out on the table here: this course will not help you get the time to create a Martha Stewart/Norman Rockwell holiday season. How much is a calmer holiday season worth to you?
Clutter Coach
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
by Holiday travel season is coming up! Republished by Blog Post Promoter The post Packing List for Holiday Travel appeared first on Clutter Coach. If you’re going somewhere, use a packing list. It will ease your travel considerably. I use checklists a lot, all kinds of them. They’re very helpful for making sure nothing falls through the cracks, and I get the satisfaction of checking off items as I do them.
Clutter Coach
JANUARY 8, 2016
by Holiday travel season is coming up! Republished by Blog Post Promoter The post Packing List for Holiday Travel appeared first on Clutter Coach. If you’re going somewhere, use a packing list. It will ease your travel considerably. I use checklists a lot, all kinds of them. They’re very helpful for making sure nothing falls through the cracks, and I get the satisfaction of checking off items as I do them.
Step It Up VA Coaching
DECEMBER 8, 2011
Here are a few last-minute tips so your business doesn’t stall while you and everyone else — are enjoying the holidays. Put the word out in your ezine, blog, and social media, before you head out for the holidays. What better time than the holiday season to connect with people? You may not have time to create a new information product before the holidays, but you can bring back a favorite for a couple of weeks. by Donna Toothaker.
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