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Time Management

Add Some Fun to Your To Do List -- Take a look at your To Do List. If you had to categorize each task or project into work or fun, in which direction would the scale tip? For most people, To Do Lists contain work affiliated activities--whether they are business related or household chore related.
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Time Management for Perfectionists -- Time management and perfectionism: this title sounds like a contradiction, doesn't it! Although it is true that anything worth doing is worth doing well, you can do something well without doing it perfectly. It's important to understand the difference between doing your best and striving for perfection in a given task.
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Energize Your Life! -- Did you know that it takes energy to NOT do something or to NOT deal with a situation? Every time we put off some task or chore, we start using energy to remember to do it. We also use energy to avoid doing it.
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Key to Simplicity: The Word "No" -- Once our lives start feeling overwhelmed, we put a lot of time and energy into the process of simplifying. Wouldn't it be easier to not fill it up in the first place?
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Top 10 Reasons to Identify Your Values -- Living your life "in integrity" means that your words match your actions which match your beliefs. When you are living your life in harmony with your values, you naturally have more energy. Clarifying what really matters to you, knowing what you stand for, will set you free to live life to its fullest potential.
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Underpromise and Overdeliver Strategy -- Have you ever planned a family outing and arrived home an hour late? By then, all the excitement and fun have gone out of the adventure. How different would the day have been had you arrived twenty minutes early?
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Top 10 Procrastination Busters -- 1. Clouded Vision - Get a Grip -- Step back. It's time to look at the forest. What exactly are you trying to accomplish. Sometimes we get so caught up in the detail we forget where we're going.
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The Top 10 Ways to Find Quiet in a Hectic Life -- Going within is an often-missed key to successful living. Without knowing what really matters to us, without the clarity that comes from self-knowledge, without the peace of knowing our actions are in harmony with who we are deep down, we often find ourselves flitting from action to action. Our focus centers on the 'doing' of our lives and not the 'being' of our lives.
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Just Say No! -- This week I was gently reminded of the importance to plan and prioritize projects. I say gently, because the reminder was not directed at me but to my friends and colleagues. I watched a neighbor run back and forth between home and "errandland" three times in less than two hours, a colleague add another work project to her already full plate, and found myself thinking "No wonder busy men and women today are so stressed - we're afraid to say NO."
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10 Easy Time Management Tips for Busy Professionals -- If you feel like your life moves faster than a Nascar race, you’re not alone. We are living in a time where dual income families and single parent homes are the norm, a sharp contrast to the happy sitcom families we grew up watching on TV.
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