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Organizational Efficiency Part I: The Anatomy of Your Business
more effective is the parts of your small business, the anatomy. What parts of your business are essential to your success? You’ll need to look at your situation for each business to determine it, but this can get you started.
Five Fast Ways to Make Quicker and Better Decisions
Being an efficient decision-maker can often make the difference in missed opportunities. You have to be decisive, and often you have to make quick decisions, but you want to be sure you are making the best choice. So how do you make quicker and quicker and better decisions? How do you become more accurate and effective at making decisions when it counts?
Outsourcing: The Key to Success
Think back to when you first set out to build your business. Do you remember what your “wants” were? For most, whether building a small business or becoming an entrepreneur, the first need, or “want”, was to have a business that provided the income you needed without overtaking your life. Working in the Corporate world was sucking your life away. Sure, you had an awesome career, maybe an excellent salary and title, but at what cost? Long commutes, long hours, you were missing out on the joy of life. So you decided to take matters into your own hands.
Pros and Cons of Filing Your Taxes Early
Do you rush to file your tax returns as soon as possible? Do you gather all your documentation and stand at the IRS virtual door on opening day? As with everything, filing early has its pros and cons, but is filing early really a good idea?? Like many things in life, the answer is, “It depends.”
Not every situation is conducive to filing early. Filing for an extension and putting it off as long as possible may make more sense for some filers. Read on to learn the good, the bad, and sometimes the downright ugly of filing early and why waiting might be best.
7 Tax Time Tips
Feelings of dread and the tax season seem to go hand in hand. Preparing ahead of time for the filing of your income taxes can reduce your stress. At least you won’t have to go hunting at the last minute for your documents.
Are You Realistic About Your Goals?
People often struggle in both life and business with the process of goal-setting—more than likely, you’ve read a lot about creating SMART goals. SMART is an acronym for: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely. Being realistic is one of the criteria for setting goals that will serve you, but the truth is, the rest of the acronym helps ensure that your goals are realistic.
Prepare Now for a Stress-Free Return
Prepare Now for a Stress-Free Return Modified from original post, published December 19, 2019 Taking some time off during the Holidays? Looking forward to enjoying some festivities, but dread the mountain of work you know will be waiting when you return? Make a few preparations now before you leave, and follow some tips when you …
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Getting the Help You Need Virtually
Keeping up with all of the routines can be difficult for those who work hard in their company or personal life. There are fifty million things to accomplish in one day with too little time and too few people to help. If you want to begin saving time, you can invest in a virtual assistant who will help you take some extra things off your plate.
12 Ways to Improve Your Mood
12 Ways to Improve Your Mood in Less than a Minute We interrupt our regular scheduled programming to bring you these much needed mood lifting tips. If you’re like me, the shift back to standard time might leave you a little less than cheerful. I love Fall, and the cooler days, but I also love …
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The Truth About Procrastinating
Procrastination is an issue that many people use to put off doing something that they don’t want to do, or maybe they just don’t know how to start. And it is a destroyer of any time management system you may have in place
Improve Focus and Productivity For Better Time Management
Improve Focus and Productivty for Better Time Management Part III of the Time Management Series Improving your focus and productivity so that you can manage your time better is within your grasp. It’s all about knowing how to set goals, create well thought out to-do lists, and then implement the actionable schedule you create. With …
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12 Steps to Vanquish Your Time Vampires
Once you let go of time wasters and focus on being productive without over scheduling, you’re going to meet your life goals faster than you think.
What Is Your Time Vampire?
Timewasters almost seem as if they’re utterly uncontrollable because they come from outside sources. They can be family, friends, colleagues, and bosses, and others, causing the issue for you. Identify these issues for yourself. Once you realize what’s happening, start setting boundaries, or find a way to work around the person or thing that’s distracting you.
3 Ways to Protect Yourself Against Questionable Links
Unsolicited emails from unknown senders are sometimes the onset of cyberattacks. They may entice you to click on a link or open an attachment that may contain malware. Clicking on the links can also direct you to some compromising websites, so be cautious. If a link looks suspicious, look it up on the web and do a quick research. The rule of thumb is to ignore seemingly malicious emails. But if you’re really curious, or just not sure it’s evil, there are several ways to protect yourself and your environment.
Cybersecurity For Kids
Your children need protection from the lurkers and hackers in cyberspace. With more schools shifting to online learning, almost all kids now have access to the internet. Parents should be actively involved in teaching their children safe cybersecurity habits.
