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Save Time And Eat Healthier With Easy Slow Cooker Recipes

By Sydney on January 20th 2012 in Health 19 comments

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When you run your own business, juggle multiple jobs to pay off school debt, or are just plain swamped with life, it can be quite a challenge to eat healthy.  Fast food is everywhere, constantly tempting us to stuff our faces so we can quickly curb our hunger and get back to our massive to [...]

Important Pre Holiday Checklist For Your Career & Sanity

By Sydney on November 17th 2011 in Career 18 comments

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Things always get a bit (or a lot) crazy during the holidays and they are just around the corner. Are you ready? Don’t worry, if you go through this checklist you’ll be totally prepared and will be able to breeze right through without breaking a sweat! Pre Holiday Checklist: Career Self Evaluation – Most companies [...]

Improve Productivity With A Digital Makeover: Digital Clutter Control

By Sydney on November 14th 2011 in Productivity 30 comments

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As many of you know, I am a bit of an obsessive minimalist because I get so excited when I find things I can donate or recycle. I’m always looking for ways to simplify, only keeping things that I actually use and enjoy. I’m certainly not at the level of owning less than 100 things [...]

Turn Madly Productive with Hyper-Focusing

By Lucas Kleinschmitt on September 4th 2011 in Productivity 18 comments

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Leo Babauta is doing it. Tim Ferriss is doing it. Even Seth Godin has been doing it. I’m talking about hyper-focusing, a technique that can turn you into an insanely productive, crazily over-delivering, and absurdly successful, go-getting maniac. Project Work on Steroids Hyper-focusing is a technique designed to clear out all distractions, to minimize the [...]

5 Productivity Tools To Make Your Blogging Life More Bearable

By Jamie Makar on July 26th 2011 in Productivity 4 comments

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As many of you know, blogging can easily feel like a hectic, full time job if you don’t have the right tools.  Whether you’re in it for the money or to simply kick out at the world – be aware that the world can kick back a lot harder!  There are always many to-do’s and [...]

How Not To Crumble Under Pressure And Stay Focused

By Financial Samurai on July 25th 2011 in Business 12 comments

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One of my biggest worries is quitting. I despise quitters who don’t see things through to the end. And because I despise quitters, I’ll end up despising myself if I were to be so cowardly. Yet, I worry because I see the temptation of quitting as soon as things aren’t going my way. Pressure is [...]

How To Avoid Distraction in 5 Easy Steps

By Sydney on May 9th 2011 in Productivity 10 comments

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Anyone that works in an office will be well aware of the time wasting opportunities offered up by the internet. What starts off as ‘research’ soon degenerates into an online shopping spree or a game of follow-the-news-lead. I’m the perfect case in point as, whilst in the process of writing this opening paragraph, I’ve already [...]

The Aches & Pains of Overlooking Proper Ergonomics

By Sydney on March 6th 2011 in Health 8 comments

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Over the last several weeks the primary thoughts that have been repeating over and over in my head are “wow…my neck is really killing me,” along with “jeez why are my shoulders SO sore,” and “why does my back feel like there are forks stuck in my spine?”  The pain and discomfort finally got so [...]

Bridging the Gap between the Expected and Unexpected

By Matt Lew on November 10th 2010 in Career 1 comment

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“The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations.” -Eli Khamarov Fear I’ve always believed that the saddest thing in life is untapped, wasted potential. Consequently, my greatest fear is for someone to one day look at me and say, “he could have done so much more,” or “what a waste [...]