Success

MAY 22, 2024

Stand up for yourself more Assertiveness was never my strong suit, especially when I was younger. Ironically, I ended up spending the next 35 years as a freelancer. Play to your strengths—but shore up your weaknesses. But it will also help instill confidence so freelancers don’t get waylaid by imposter syndrome.

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Success

AUGUST 2, 2021

Often, those patterns are reactions to the way we grew up. Once you have your list, think about the fear, shame or any other negative emotion that comes up for you as you look back at each situation. Complete the exercise by writing down the things you think would make you feel confident around your finances. Change takes time.

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Success

JUNE 28, 2021

Do you realize that these subconscious, second-nature activities make up 40 percent of our waking hours? But be assured: If you’re doing fine now without minding these money principles , it’ll catch up to you. Here are the most important Rich Habits you can take up to reach and maintain your wealth potential. Don’t give up.

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Allwork

DECEMBER 7, 2022

billion California Public Employees’ Retirement System. . Given the data, we can confidently state that the more employees get shots, the less sick days they will take. That’s despite serious recent outbreaks at major companies that mandated office returns, such as at Google or at CalPERS , the $441.9

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BMT Office Administration

MARCH 4, 2022

So I was confident last weekend as I set about preparing our taxes. Once I got the hang of loading the tax-prep software onto my almost-brand-new Windows 10 laptop and ran through sometimes deliberately vague set-up questions, I discovered several blatant errors. Probably, but I’m not owning up to it yet.

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Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

For Kathleen Earley, who recently retired as Executive Assistant to the President and CFO Emeritus at Salesforce and spent 50 years as an Admin, it’s all about staying ahead. “You may still have to do travel and expense reports, but you should look at everything from a larger mindset, a wider scope,” she says.

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Admin Awards

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

When my mom retired just shy of her 80th birthday from the profession, she was given a scrapbook that was packed with pages of pictures, letters and writings about what she meant to her co-workers and organization. Yet they wake up, do it all over again, and still somehow make you feel like you’re the only person in the world that matters.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 6, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Non-Mortgage Debt and Working in Retirement | Main | Foreign Born in the U.S. " Since we first noticed this shift we've become much more confident that the trend is real, and we expect many more companies will choose to manufacture in the U.S. becoming more cost effective.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 7, 2011

So when she sent me this guest post that outlines some of her learning curve lessons as a new freelancer, I was thrilled – here was someone who’d gone from zero to being a confident writer who could stand up for herself, and for her business. By the time I expensed medical, insurance, retirement etc, I barely broke even.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 15, 2023

Without adequate funding for growth, and without a workforce strategy to ensure that nursery staff are supported to deliver high-quality care, we fear that there will not be enough childcare places for the parents who need them, and that parents will lose confidence in the early years system.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Speaking of covering everything head to toe… today is a special report website critique for Kidorable, an acclaimed kids’ clothing and accessories company dressing little kids up right. Your email opt-in area is looking outdated as well, and it’s just too quiet to be drawing any kind of attention or sign-ups right now.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 18, 2013

It is known that age only plays a factor because the more years you have worked for a company the more expensive an employee is because of their salary, overtime, and other perks/benefits that are considered in the overall compensation package (401k matching, retirement, etc). How long do you think is fair? In hindsight, I am 99.9%

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