Work-Life Articles For Entrepreneurs & Small Business OwnersComplainers are Destroying your Brain!We all know someone that complains just way too much, it could be a professional colleague or an old friend. Those same people become famous for that nasty habit that everyone hates, constantly complaining about everything. However you now have a great excuse to not listen to them, the excuse is that they are making [...] How to be Productive on a Startup ScheduleJennifer Vargas of Accompl.sh manages to have fun while being productive. She shares her tips on how to focus on priorities and still attend to what matters in her life. First in her tips is to assign a weight to one’s priorities – work, family, friends, health, etc. Knowing what matters minimizes indecision. Which of [...] Entrepreneurs Don’t Need Work-Life BalanceJeffrey Stibel of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. zeroes in on common characteristics of entrepreneurs. He wrote in the Harvard Business Review that entrepreneurs like him are always focused on their dream or vision 24/7. This blinding passion to achieve their dream has brought imbalance in their lives. He said most of them skip meals [...] 4 Tips for Balancing your Business and Family LifeAnyone who has ever owned a small business will tell you that it’s a constant uphill struggle. While many people who quit their day jobs to start their own company do so to have some free time, the reality is that, despite not having a nine to five job anymore, you will likely end up [...] Be the Best Work-at-Home-Mom with True BalanceMany women are trying to find ways to spend more quality time with their children, while maintaining a career. So, it’s no surprise that many of us have found a way to work from a home office. This is all in hopes of having more flexibility in our days, so we can attend school functions, [...] 4 Ways to Resolve Conflict, the Painless WayIn the office world, miscommunication and conflict are two things that happen frequently. These are two things that are inevitable, seeing as how multiple individuals with different backgrounds, views and personalities are required to come together to work as a single cohesive unit. The small differences in personality and manners are magnified when work styles, [...] 5 Stress Training Tips to Free Your Mind from StressStress training is something that’s easier said than done. Learning how to manage your stress is a process that’s long and gradual—you don’t have to expect yourself to be good at it from the get go. What you can do however is start conditioning your mind and body in order to be better prepared for [...] Time Management And The Pareto RuleLife can become hectic with schedules changing and tasks to carry out. I know a lot of you can relate out there, especially when it comes to juggling our day to day activities, whether at work or errands for your family and home. This is where time management comes in and having the insight to [...] 5 Steps To Creating A Successful WorkplaceCreating a Successful Workplace One of the keys to being an effective manager is to have an approach and philosophy that is consistent and visible to your employees. In fact, every business should take the time to establish a management philosophy for all supervisors and managers to follow that will foster a productive and successful [...] Content Overload: What We Need is a Storage Jedi“Pain, suffering, death I feel. Something terrible has happened. Young Skywalker is in pain. Terrible pain” – Yoda, George Lucas Star Wars Oh come on…give us a break! Yottabytes, Yoda? You thought the same thing when you heard that we’re creating, copying, sending, copying, receiving, copying, archiving stuff. Someone had to invent a new word [...] Time Management TipsDo you ever wonder where your workday goes? Well, here are some interesting statistics on the use of time. See how you compare. According to research, the average person gets one interruption every eight minutes or approximately seven an hour. The average interruption takes five minutes, totaling about four hours, or 50 percent of the [...] Align Your Dreams: From Ordinary To Ultra-Ordinary“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.” Napoleon Hill What is your dream? You may want an entirely new job or a significant career change. Maybe you are seeking a promotion, or believe you deserve a raise! Perhaps you desire to [...] Enjoy The Pleasure And Challenges Of Working From HomeMany people are drawn to work from home businesses for their flexibility and unlimited income opportunities. Working from home could be something you could do! Everyone dreams of working from home and being their own boss. Truly they do. If you asked almost any employee that has worked for many years what their dream job [...] You Know You Need To Change Your Career When…You know you need to change your career when … You fantasize about working in a tollbooth on the M50. The highlights of the day are tea breaks and lunchtime. You know you have said all this before but you can’t remember when. You keep ringing the talking clock because you know the clock at [...] So You Want To Change Your Career – But You Don’t Know What To DoYou have just had another crap day at work. Some of these indicators may be familiar to you! You are tired and you wonder what went wrong. Everyone told you (family, friends, neighbours, the guy on the toll bridge) that this was a great job with great prospects. Now, you are just tired of it. [...] Themes, Dreams And Life StoryOne of the favored techniques in personal development in adult education is that of the life story. It is often a powerful way for people to connect to long lost dreams and to notice patterns in their life. What may not be so well known is its power as a way to reveal what you [...] Constructive Tips on How to Cope with RetrenchmentRetrenchment is no longer a dirty word, and in today’s climate a vast majority of the population have been affected by retrenchment at some stage of their working life whether directly or indirectly. The familiar ‘one job for life’ mantra seems to be a fleeting memory of the days of old while job uncertainty and [...] PrinciplePrinciples¹ are tools for decision making that bring the moral² basis of decisions into focus. Recognizing the moral context of our decisions must precede any attempt to resolve related difficulties. The failure to recognize the moral context of a decision does not make it morally neutral, it makes it morally unknown and uncontrollable. You can’t [...] Bringing Baggage To The Job InterviewNobody’s perfect. But nobody wants to hear about your problems and baggage either. Especially in the job interview. Some people’s lives begin to sound like a Soap Opera because there have been so many extenuating circumstances. The following is some advice to handle those tricky situations when interviewing that may be difficult to talk about [...] Achieving Extraordinary Results: It’s Just a SkillWhen you look at all the “superstars” our heroes, the people we emulate we tend to think they are endowed with Super Powers. They are able to achieve fame, success, fortune due to abilities beyond those that we have been given. They are simply blessed. However, that isn’t the case. The people who achieve extraordinary [...] |
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