16 Oct

Posted at 13:13h in Paper Management by
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[caption id="" align="alignright" width="193"]Better Business Bureau logo. Better Business Bureau will host free shred days on October 20, 2012. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]In case you missed an earlier blog post, October is National Clean Out Your Files Month. (Yippeee!)Whether you do that now or at any other time, papers containing personal information such as account, social security, and drivers license numbers should be shredded in order to protect yourself from identity theft. If you have a

24 Jul

Posted at 13:15h in How to Run a Business, Planning, The Power of the Brain, Thinking, Reflection, Travel by
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[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"]Waterloo commuters Waterloo commuters (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]Our goal is to go away on vacation at least once per year. It never fails that while we’re abroad, we develop wild fantasies about how sweet life would be if we lived elsewhere.I realize that we’re not alone in these musings when we talk to other folks who dream big dreams when they’re on vacation.

19 Jun

Posted at 13:05h in Email & Data Management, Time Management by
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[caption id="" align="alignright" width="201"]Showing Mozilla Thunderbird detecting spam mes... Mozilla Thunderbird detecting spam messages in an inbox.  (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]Unnecessary emails. They are such a waste of time! Even if you know that you don’t need to read the email, you’re still wasting time deleting it and wasting even more time reading the subject line to figure out that it doesn’t pertain to you. I wish spammers would self-implode.It doesn’t happen daily anymore in the business world, but when it does, it really chaffs my hide. What gets me riled up?

29 May

Posted at 13:05h in Email & Data Management, How to Run a Business, The Power of the Brain, Time Management by
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[caption id="" align="alignright" width="201"] English: email envelope (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]I was chatting with my friend, business coach Alicia Arenas, and she didn't understand the advice I was trying to give about email.I simply told her: "You can get more done if you turn off your...

12 Apr

Posted at 11:59h in How to Run a Business, Planning, Time Management, Travel by
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[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"]Fiesta San Antonio, April 25, 2009. Fiesta San Antonio (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]San Antonio has been partying like it’s 1999 since 1891, when a group of citizens decided to celebrate the heroes of the Battle of San Jacinto and the Alamo.Fiesta has been occurring every April in San Antonio for over one hundred years. There are multiple events each day, as well as several parades over a ten-day period. Most of these events are