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The power of reframing
Reframing is expressing a concept, idea, or product differently. When we change our point of view on any given situation, the facts remain the same, but a deliberate shift is made in how we see it. We are reframing when we see a problem as a challenge and can imagine...
Pessimists seldom prosper
Lastt week’s blog article, as well as the next one, are based on my latest eBook, “A Positive Attitude that Gets Results,” soon to be published by Bookboon. Dr. Edward Creagan in his book, How not to be my patient, refers to research indicating that pessimists have a...
Attitude can make you or break you.
During my career as a time management trainer and facilitator, I have learned that some people feel that they have little control over their time. They believe that their lives are completely controlled by external events. Those people will likely gain little, if...
Deadlines are your ally, not your enemy.
Here are a few suggestions from my recent eBook, Making Deadlines Work for You published by Bookboon. At our website, you can see descriptions of this book and about thirty others that I have written. Set the “Due date” for yourself a few days ahead of your promised...
How to set realistic deadlines
To determine how much time you will allow for a specific task or project, you should start by recalling how much time you normally took in the past and subtract any distractions, interruptions, unforeseen delays and so on – in order to get an ideal time. In the case...
The need for deadlines
The following article is an excerpt from my recent e-Book, Making Deadlines Work for You, published by Bookboon.com. “A deadline is a time or date before which a particular task must be finished or a particular thing must be done,” according to Collins English...
The trend towards telecommuting
In this and the last few blog articles, I have been sharing some of the information from my recent e-book, How to set up an office in your home, published by Bookboon.com. You can access all 30 or more of my ebooks at taylorintime.com. There has been a trend towards...
Organizing a bedroom office
This is a continuing series based on my recent e-book, How to set up an office at home, published and available from Bookboon.com. If you want to derive the full benefit of working from home, including an increase in your personal productivity, I recommend you...
Coping with loneliness at home and in outer space
This is a continuing series based on my recent e-book, How to set up an office at home, published and available from Bookboon.com. Loneliness is a factor if you work alone in an office all day. And during the pandemic more people have been working from home. And...
Lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic
This is a continuing series based on my recent e-book, How to set up an office at home, published and available from Bookboon.com. Marie Kondo, author of the book, Joy at work: Organizing your professional life, in an interview during the COVID-90 crisis, said that,...
How to set up an office at home
As governments either encouraged or ordered people to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly of working from home for the first time. The “good” included the elimination of commute time, savings on gas...
The power of reading
People who read actually live longer I read an article on the power reading in the October 2017 issue of Reader’s Digest. It mentioned that in 2016, Yale researchers collected data from 3600 men and women over fifty, discovering that people who read books for thirty...