Month: August 2012
How to Build a More Meaningful Career
The average person racks up at least 100,000 working hours over a lifetime. That means you spend more time in the office than you do in your own home and have more face time with your colleagues than your family or friends. Some of the most difficult decisions you’ll haveRead More
Make Time for the Not Urgent
Originally developed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, promoted by Stephen Covey’s top-selling book 7 Habits of Highly Effective people, and echoed in Dave Ramsey’s book Entreleadership, are four areas of which people spend their time. The answers can be determined by asking two questions about a particular task: 1) IsRead More
3 Ways to Market Your Side Business While You Sleep
Now that you have your shiny new side business up and running, you need to market it. In other words, you need to spread the word about what you are doing. When I started blogging, my main goal was to get the word out about my blog. I had twoRead More
Work Healthy, Take Breaks
Working in an office all day and sitting at your computer sounds like an easy task. After all, what “actual work” is involved there? No heavy lifting, no running, no back-breaking labor under a hot sun. What is to complain about, right? However, the reality is much different than thatRead More
8 Things Not to Do in the Office
Professionalism calls for self-discipline and abstinence from certain things that are counterproductive for your work environment. A professional astutely gauges his or her responsibilities and maintains high level of loyalty and sincerity towards their workplace. The following list of behavioral patterns will affect your workplace immensely, and therefore, as an office goer,Read More
Making Better Hires: Tools for the Trade
There is a seemingly endless supply of alternative routes on the path to making better hires by recruiting qualified, committed new candidates for your firm. And while having options can be a good thing, too many choices can simply be overwhelming. So what’s a hiring professional to do? You couldRead More
When It’s Time to Go Home: The Pitfalls of Being a Workaholic
With 25 years of business experience under my belt, I’ve seen enough and experienced enough to know that success attained through luck or happenstance is usually fleeting and that hard work is the ultimate key to true, long-term success. For that reason, any budding businessperson is likely to find thatRead More