Archive | June, 2012

Solopreneurs: You Need a Vacation!

Summer is here, and with summer often comes summer vacation! When you work for a boss, you simply submit a vacation request and, assuming it’s approved, your workplace simply goes along as usual, only without you. You come back a week later and pick up where you left off. When you’re a solopreneur, however, vacationing [...]

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Better Together: Photographs and Video

When you think back to the special times in your life, you may do so with the aid of a scrapbook, photo album or home video. Photos and videos are both important and provide a great way for people to relive past events, but they have two different purposes: Photographs give just a glimpse into [...]

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Time Management: Taking Advantage of Parkinson’s Law

A couple of years ago, I learned about a “theory” of time management called Parkinson’s Law. The basic premise is that work expands to fill the time available for its completion. What this means is that if you have a full day to complete three tasks, they will take all day. If, on the other [...]

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Better Together: Yoga and Meditation

We have previously discussed the idea that some things are better together. Two practices that may help you on both personal and professional levels are those of yoga and meditation. While you may consider these as strictly pertaining to personal enhancement, when you consider that they are both holistic approaches, you’ll see that they may [...]

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Bartering: An Age-Old System With Modern-Day Advantages

With the premiere of the new television show, Barter Kings, on A&E airing this week, I have a feeling that we’re going to start hearing a lot about the practice of bartering. Far from being something new, bartering is a system of obtaining goods and services without the exchange of money. It has been around [...]

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