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If you find that interruptions are causing you significant loss of productivity, then it is time that you made some changes. Wishing that the interruptions would stop won’t do you any good. Fuming about them won’t do you any good. Complaining about them won’t do any good. So, I guess that means you’ll need to [...]

Tags: business, distractions, focus, Productivity, success, women

Ah, employment. Making sure you have protected pockets at work means that you have enough time to complete necessary tasks, plan for future (possible advancement) and still have time left to go home and have a life there, too. How do you do this? Here are five ideas to help you answer this question: First, [...]

Tags: business, Productivity, time, tips, work

The only RSS feed I currently get is from Seth Godin’s blog.  He is beyond brilliant.  Here’s a recent post: Getting smart about the hierarchy of smart Don’t talk to all your employees, all your users or all your prospects the same way, because they’re not the same. The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition posits [...]

Tags: business, creativity, Seth Godin

Imagine you are reading this blog post as a question and answer session…Just listen in (and this came in originally as a Life of *E*s Email Extravaganza (another of which I am getting ready to host again in a few minutes!): Q:  My current company is my original brand. I have invested a lot of time/money/energy promoting [...]

Tags: business, business growth, entrepreneur

Recently, a Life of E’s member sent in this question: I am interested in developing a line of teaching tools that come from my experience teaching graduate students and faculty. In developing teaching tools or publications that grow out of a university career, how do you carefully separate your business self from your faculty self? Can [...]

Tags: academics, business, teaching tools, university

One of the people I have learned the most from in the last 4 or 5 years as I’ve built my company is Alexandria Brown.  On Thursday evening, March 5th, she is hosting a free teleseminar (that I wouldn’t miss) entitled “How to Create Your OWN Strong Economy This Year…with Online Information Marketing.”  You can [...]

Tags: Alexandria Brown, business, economy, entrepreneur

Thanks to Kelly for letting me know about this article: – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – - How to Tame the Niffler in You by Alicia M Forest, MBA Multiple Streams Queen & Coach What’s a Niffler, you ask? Well, if you’ve read Happy Potter and [...]

Tags: Alicia M Forest, business, commitment, gatherer, Harry Potter, Niffler, tools, treasure

Suggestion: Go to http://www.mhprofessional.com/category/?cat=3 (all I can figure is that McGraw Hill bought Chase’s) and you can find out about all the jillions of holidays that there are…it’s likely that one or more of them tie into what you do… AND if you don’t find a holiday that ties into your expertise, you can submit an [...]

Tags: business, holidays, missions, projects

Suggestion: I was listening to a teleseminar the other day with Melanie Benson Strick and she made a statement that I wanted to share with all of you.  When she was starting out, she would say, “I run a mulitimillion dollar business.  My bank account just hasn’t caught up yet.” Then, I was listening to [...]

Tags: Ali Brown, business, Melanie Benson Strick, successful

Resource: Business Owner’s Toolkit (Total Know-How for Small Business) www.Toolkit.com I saw an ad for it in Fast Company magazine and checked it out this morning.  It has a TON of links and articles, etc. related to small business.  I didn’t sign up for anything, although I think you can.  I just looked around at [...]

Tags: business, business owner's toolkit, Fast Company, Toolkit