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Are Eu-Stressing or Dis-Stressing?

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Home About Me Advertise Are Eu-Stressing or Dis-Stressing? Do you feel tired and stressed throughout each work day? Unfortunately, stress is always going to be a part of our lives. The only people that are not stressed are the ones that arent alive. Eustress is the type of stress that makes you feel good.

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Contest: Best Stress Tips - Win $1500

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Home About Me Advertise Contest: Best Stress Tips - Win $1500 By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, October 02, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity D o you feel stressed at work? People get stressed all of the time. Getting rid of stress in your life can make you more productive , keep you healthy and even keep you sane.

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Steps for Creating a Paperless Home Office

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Simply configure your scanner software to use optical character recognition (OCR) to automatically turn every scanned document into a searchable PDF, which allows you to find documents by searching for words they contain. Going paperless saves you time, money, clutter, and stress. More on how these tools will help later.

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More minute taking tips

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It can be even more stressful going into a Committee meeting to take minutes knowing you have an action that you haven’t completed! If you have been writing the minutes for a while, it is still worthwhile reading the board pack. It is particularly important to read the actions in case you have any tasks on there. Action tables.

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Hands Hurt From Typing?

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Heres a product that will help you feel better and relieve pain, carpal tunnel syndrome and repetitive stress injury. By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Filed Under: Ergonomics , Productivity D o you find yourself typing too much? Using the mouse too often? Click on the picture to find out more information.

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Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One?

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You have to share your secrets with us, if you are not feeling stressed, which I hope you are not. When you try to save a document as a template, make sure that you click on the drop down arrow in the Microsoft Office software that you are using and select template, when using the "Save-As" command. Ok, I had to squeeze that in.

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Too Many People Need Your Help At Once?

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The best way to deal with stressful situations like this is to stop, take a breath and relax for a few minutes. Just getting out the tension will release any anxiety and stress you may have. This happens to me quite often, since I help about 30 people, including 6 managers. Exercise can do wonders.

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