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A Day Off The Grid!

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Recently I experienced a total connection shutdown! No telephone, no Internet, not communication besides my cellular phone!

For this reason, I’d like to apologize to my readers for my delay in posting this article.

The problem was large and caused by a road repairing crew, that damage the telephone’s infrastructure in the area. This situation cause me to skip the posting of one post (specifically the previous one!) and gave me some food of thought!

I’m so accustom to having an Internet access anywhere I go, that its absence creates a lot of problems. Today is one of those “off-the-grid” days! I was working normally, trying to do some infrastructure work, when, all off a sudden, everything went still! At first, I didn’t realize what happened and thought that I had a problem with my computer. After a while though, I realize that telephone and Internet were off. Not phone, no Internet, no web, no value added service! Complete silence!

A Day Off The Grid

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A Glimpse Into My Workflow

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I like simple things! I like to work in an intuitive way and do not spend time in tasks that are not directly related with my main goals! Therefore, I try to simplify my life and my workflow, reducing at the same time my workload and gaining more time! In order to do that, periodically, I try to clean up, as much as possible cluttered and redundant files, links, e-mails, etc., aiming at focus only on the tasks at hand! The same principles I apply to the way I work!

A Glimpse In My Workflow

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2 Organization Schemes

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In today’s complex conditions of living and working, one factor can diversify you from the other people and provide extremely value-added services towards the people you associate with, is the organization!

2 Organization Schemes

Life organization and management can be tricky when you use it sporadically and without a system to assist you to achieve your goals. But, today, with all the personal and professional activities, should be accomplished, during a day, it is of major importance! Fortunately, though, there are valuable systems that can help you decide and reach the destination you have chosen in life!

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How To Value Time

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Value Time
This is a guest post by Linda Rossi, a creative writer for a writing services. Linda is a passionate writer that dreams of publishing her own book in the near future. In this post, she provides some very valuable insights about the value of time!

The endless saying that:

Time is Gold……

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Make The Shift Of A Lifetime: From Work Cubicle To Home (Are You Ready?)

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Make The Shift Of A Lifetime
This is a guest post, by Patrick Del Rosario. Patrick is part of the team behind Open Colleges, one of Australia’s pioneer and leading providers of Business management courses and Human resources courses. When not working, Patrick enjoys blogging about career and business. Patrick is also a photography enthusiast and is currently running a photography studio in the Philippines. This article presents some practical tips on how you can make the shift from working to your office towards working in your home. Check it out!

Making the shift is not easy! Working from home has a number of great benefits, including the ability to work from anywhere you choose and set your own work hours, design and decorate your own workspace, make more time for family or friends and wear whatever you want every single day.

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How To Manage Your Time

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Time management is one of the basic skills of our culture! Time is one of the most scarce commodities in your life. It never seems enough, yet, once it passed, you can never reclaim it (or can you?)! For this reason, you should always manage it wisely and monitoring (if not safe guarding[!]) it closely under the view of your goals and objectives.

Time Management: How To Manage Your Time

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Automation’s Role in Improving Business & Society [Infographic]

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My readers should know, by now, that I’m a big fun of automation and of all the processes, tools and approaches that can reduce your time spend on a task and enhance your productivity. But automation itself, goes beyond the limits of personal productivity and has real effects in business and society. The following infographic, … Continue reading →

How To Build A Kindle e-Book, And Why You Should Do It!

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It is not difficult to build an Amazon Kindle e-Book. The procedure and the mechanics are fairly easy, for any computer literate person, with basic computer usability skills! The trick is to build an e-Book that would provide value to your readers and give them the necessary information, inspiration and incentives to do something different (or the same things differently!) in their life.

How to build an Amazon Kindle e-Book

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A 2013 Scorecard, a 2014 Design

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Preparing for 2014

Here is my 2013 scorecard, or my 2014 design. It is custom this time of the year (early 2014) to review what you have accomplished in the previous year and what you planning to accomplish in the year that comes. I, usually, don’t subscribe to this kind of ventures (I do reviews much more often than once a year and modify my plans, goals, etc. accordingly! – on a more frequent base).

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Bring Light To Your Office!

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Bring Light to Your Office!
This is a guest post by Melisa Marzett, an experienced writer in the fields of leadership, psychology, and management. You can look through her blog at: http://customcollegeessays.com/ and will surely find it interesting as long as it concerns important issues. Have fun getting to know new stuff with Melisa and enjoy her wonderful writing skills! Today she is focusing on the effects of the light to your office.

Bringing light to your office is not an easy issue. Light is one of the major issues for everyone, as Goethe’s last words, (metaphorically) signify! The majority of the employees spends at least eight hours in the office every day. The atmosphere and the conditions in the office influence not only mood, physical state and the loyalty of employees. Recent studies have proven that lighting plays a key role in the establishment of a working atmosphere, and the use of correct lighting solutions noticeably increases productivity.

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The Burden Of Selection

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Why making a selection is so difficult? And why are so difficult to narrow down your selections, to fewer, but better and efficient options? You have taught that an abundance of choices is the base for the freedom of choice (and that of the will)! But, most of the times, the too many choices, can create you a much greater psychological problem. The one that may lead you directly to a problematic, poor or non-selection at all! And, in many situations, your inability of taking solid decisions in certain situations, can create you a lot of troubles!

The Burden of Selection

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