Fire Up Your Business 01/02/2012
 Does your day seem to disappear before your eyes? Critical tasks left undone? Desperate for a solution? When you launched your business were you prepared for everything you had to do to make it thrive? Productivity and profitability do go hand in hand! Maybe when you began your business you thought you just needed to learn skills to make you an expert in your field and "Voila"! you'd be a sought-after success! It's not so easy, is it? To be a successful entrepreneur, you need to know about all sorts of things—like product development, budgeting / branding, marketing, networking, social media, video, and so much more! Then, if you get that all figured out, did anyone ever teach you how to successfully combine your business with the rest of your life? The truth is every performance gap, every little inefficiency, every lack of organization or productivity, not only reduces the effectiveness of your business, it also steals time from your personal life! This is TRUE FOR all BUSINESS owners! Wouldn't it be great if you could find everything you needed to learn in ONE place? I'm inviting you, as my guest, in an extraordinary program designed specifically towards the unique needs of entrepreneurs who want to excel in business and in life … Fire Up Your Biz - Enrich Your Life! Stephanie LH Calahan of Calahan Solutions, Inc. has pulled together some of the best experts on productivity, mindset and business growth that you can find -- over 20! Sign up by clicking here today! Warmest Regards, Michelle Panzlaff PS This program offers a TON of value. Don't miss out! Stephanie tells me that the goal is to be all content and no fluff! This is not a series of sales presentations. They are even taking your questions to get answered, so you know you'll get solid value. It's time to stop feeling exhausted at the end of each day. Add Comment 1. Alphabetize items 2. Number things 3. Date materials 4. Use different colors 5. Sort items of importance 6. Use color folders to keep track of papers 7. Use hanging folders to organize folders off your desk 8. Use file tabs to locate hanging folders faster 9. File away last year’s stuff in storage 10. Keep only the current year in your work area 11. Use organizing products to help 12. Put your most important papers in the front of folders Why Soft Skills are Important 08/13/2011
By: Sandy Chernoff, owner: Soft Skills for Success Today’s competitive world has made everyone more concerned about how to find work, and how to excel in the field he/she has chosen. We all have our strengths and weaknesses; it is vital that we mould and develop those strengths, and overcome those weaknesses. Why Soft Skills Make the Difference Employers often have to choose from 10 or more viable candidates for any one position. How will they select the best one from a group of individuals who all possess similar educational qualifications and work experience? Usually that will boil down to the one with the best soft skills:
Most successful businesses rely on relationship building and that develops with good communication, excellent customer service and quality products. Collaborative teamwork cannot exist without cooperation, support, clear communication, trust and respect....all of those are based on good relationships. Soft Skills Improve Job & Organizational Performance Those possessing good soft skills will improve their performance at work. This will not only catch the attention of the boss, but will help to increase the happiness factor of those they contact. This in turn will enhance the creativity, productivity and ultimately, the bottom line of the company. The more members of the team with excellent soft skills the more all of the aforementioned will be true. Employers realize that in order to achieve company goals, they require employees with effective soft skills. Soft Skills Bring Personal Growth and Success Soft skills are empowering. No matter what career path one chooses, the better one’s soft skills the more impressive will be their accomplishments. These attributes are beneficial in all aspects of a person’s life: at work, at home, at play. To learn more about Sandy Chernoff and Soft Skills for Success visit: www.softskillsforsuccess.com Sandy, Thank you for sharing this valuable information on Soft Skills with us. Michelle Panzlaff Tidy Tiger  Go ahead and ask, you won't be the first... If you want to know what simple activity can consistently make someone better organized, I will answer 'The ability to make quick objective decisions'. To Decide or Not to Decide. Learning to ‘make decisions’ on everything, as soon as it crosses your path, and dedicating time and energy to follow through on your choices, are two important aspects to staying organized. Not being able to make decisions, and putting things ‘here for now’ is a challenge that plaques many, for various reasons. These reasons, or shall I say ‘Obstacles’ are mainly due to what I will call ‘technical error’. Technical Error is not having a proper, easy to access ‘home’ for things. Then again, sometimes the 'obstacle' leading to this 'decision making challenge' can be related to fears or even perfectionism. Yet anyway we slice it, learning to make objective decisions about what we keep, where we keep it and whether or not we act on it is very important in my opinion. So to help you and those you know make better choices about what to keep and what to do with it, here are some tools to share. To help you make quick decisions I have a free copy of the '4 Decisions to Make with Tasks and Mail' for you on my site. Then if you want to take a look at thinning out or eliminating any piles of business cards, magazines, brochures and over stuffed files you can find great 'Tips to Weed your Tasks and Paper' here. And if letting go is hard, stay objective by asking yourself these questions about your stuff: When it comes to Paper: Is it a duplicate? Is it current? How often will I refer to it? Can I get it elsewhere if I need it? Do I have time to read it? Do I want, or truly need this? Is replication very difficult? Does the law require I keep it? When it comes to Clutter ask: When was it last used? Is there a specific date I will need this again in future? How hard would it be to replace again if I needed it? How does it make my life more purposeful or better? Is it beautiful or loved? Does it reflect the person I am now? What is worst case scenario if I toss it? Now, if you still struggle a bit with the questions above and/or still need a little help to decide where to put things, take a closer look at the information in my 2010 article The-top-questions-to-ask-yourself-about-your-stuff OK, all good? Ready to tackle it alone? Great! Not looking forward to going it alone? Just don't have the time? Or is being objective impossible because you can’t see the forest through the trees? Call me, its my passion to help. Reap More Rewards 04/12/2011
 Reap more rewards by making ‘moment to moment’ decisions about what ‘to do’ more effectively than ever before. Making choices is hard enough, in business and in life we have to decide on everything that comes our way, do we; ‘Do it’, ‘Defer it’, ‘Delegate it’, or ‘Delete it’? With a long list of priority ‘To Do’s’ when we have a moment, how do we now what to do next? Well it’s easy. Try applying the REAP Principal This principal outlines the 4 key criterions for making moment to moment choices. They are: R – Resources Are they at your fingertips at the time? E – Energy Are you physically or mentally ready to take it on? A – Available Time Do you have enough time to complete the task at hand? P – Priority Is it important enough and is the deadline fast approaching? Listen to my recent Podcast to learn more… Tidy Time Management 101 03/08/2011
I am happy that spring is just around the corner, and I am excited about my coming new tele-seminar on Time Management coming up in April. As I work on a few more details to have everything ready to go by launch date, I find myself having to manage my time carefully to get the important things done. You can learn how to do this too, and I would love to help..  Got Balls? Business Balls that is 03/08/2011
BusinessBalls.com What I love about this site is it's simplistic design yet comprehensive content. Businessballs is a free ethical learning and development resource for people and organizations. Their aim, no less than enabling positive ethical change in work and life, and beyond. Getting More Done 03/08/2011
In today's high tech, fast paced world, where we are experiencing distractions more than ever before. Our mobile phones, our email and the urges to multitask in an effort to get more done are adding up, and for many this is bringing on a feeling of overwhelm. Getting anything truly significant done in this environment is a wonder. One trick to actually accomplishing some of the greater tasks on our plate is to give ourselves a big enough buffer. We need to accept the fact that interruptions will come, and e need to block out enough time in our day to accommodate them. So what's a good guideline? Well that's hard to say, as it depends on the task. A good starting guideline would be that if you had a task that you estimate will take 2 hours, try blocking 3 instead. Throw a short break in the middle of it too if needed. Yes, you can probably expect interruptions, just don't encourage them. When you schedule your work sessions you should turn the ringer on the phone off, shut the office door and ignore email as much as possible. (Did you know that for every interruption you experience you automatically lose 5 minutes or more of concentration? This can add up very fast.) If your working on task and giving your concentration to the task a good 1 or 2 hour session may be a good enough chunk of time to get some significant progress going on, and then you can break for a time to make sure no fires have broken out. Another trick is that when you are in the middle of work and an idea or thought comes into your head that you absolutely can not forget about, just take one minute to write it out and put away to deal with at a more appropriate time. The idea is to just clear your head of the distraction by getting it in a place where you know you can find it later and then quickly get back to what you were doing. Tax Time Tips by Tidy Tiger 03/07/2011
Time to get last year's tax documents processed. If the thought overwhelms you just follow this brief checklist and keep it simple.
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