Archives for the 'Follow Your Dream' Category
Your Sense of Accomplishment [Productivity in Context]
Today’s post is from Kris Rowlands at Words Within:
It’s tough. It’s hard to be able to keep focused on your goals, Getting Things Done, and feel a sense of accomplishment. If anyone tells you otherwise, they have not walked in your shoes.
Goals are good things to have: they keep us focused, give us something to [...]
Changing the Landscape of Education [Productivity in Context]
Here is another TED video that is a must-see. Forget “Must see TV”, this is the future.
Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk has a giant vision: to create a free global online education system that puts the power of creation and collaboration in the hands of teachers worldwide. He’s realizing that vision with Connexions, a website [...]
5 Tips for Improving Productivity with a Virtual Assistant [Productivity in Context]
Virtual Assistants are a hot topic right now, and Mark Shead of Productivity 501 has some tips for those of you that may be thinking about taking that plunge:
5 Tips for Getting a Virtual Assistant
1. Expect to spend some money.
If you don’t have money set aside you’ll probably get frustrated when something takes longer [...]
The Number One Question about Getting Started with Blogging [Productivity in Context]
SpaceAgeSage has a guest-post at Liz Strauss’ Successful Blog about finding ways of reaching customers that do not blog, or perhaps do not read blogs. I have been thinking about those of you in my own community of readers that are not bloggers…
In Search of the Elusive Non-blogging Customer
Liz is on a quest to bring [...]
Do You Need a Virtual Assistant [Productivity in Context]
My friend Patricia Mayo, who writes the excellent blog ComHacker, has just published an e-book (the Crystal Edict E-book) on how to find, train, and get the most out of a Virtual Assistant. I’ll let her tell you a little about it:
Here’s a short list of a few things my virtual assistant is doing for [...]
The Richness of Human Capacity [Productivity in Context]
I can’t believe I just found this:
Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies — far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity — are ignored or even stigmatized, [...]
Turning Adversity into Success [Productivity in Context]
My friend Stephen Hopson was interviewed for the Tuscon Citizen:
Bruzzese: Turn adversity into dreams come true
Hopson’s new career is based upon the premise that he knows how to take adversity and turn it into success, and he believes that it is a message many people want to hear from just a regular guy faced with [...]
Escape from Corporate America - Book Review [Productivity in Context]
“Escape from Corporate America” by Pamela Skillings is the first truly practical, and eminently readable, book about career-change that I have found. Written in a down-to-earth style, there is also a thread of humor woven through every chapter.
Pamela Skillings is an author, journalist, and entrepreneur who spent twelve years working as a marketing executive for [...]
Productive Career Advice [Productivity in Context]
I will be giving a presentation later today about interviewing skills, so I have been looking at some career planning info from around teh interweb.
This [link] is a great slideshow about career planning that is a review of Dan Pink’s new book.
Daniel H. Pink is the New York Times bestselling author of A WHOLE NEW [...]
Why Chris Garrett Doesn’t Suck [Productivity in Context]
Here we are at SOBCon in the afternoon session. Chris Garrett of chrisg.com just gave a terrific presentation on how to get more bang out of your blog.
High points:
Create, Communicate, Promote, Learn
Repeat
What does this mean for being productive? These four steps can be used to improve nearly any process.
Think about how you manage your e-mail [...]