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8 Tips to Help You Clean Off Your Desk

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Sort – everything into boxes/containers according to what needs to be done: file , shred, recycle , refer, toss, etc. Process the paper – take the items you sorted into boxes and put them where they belong: filing, your tickler or reading folder or delegate/refer to a more appropriate person, etc.

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10 Sites for Quotations

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When I am looking for quotations , these are 10 sites I have bookmarked: Wikiquote – A wiki of quotes from the Wikipedia family of reference. There is a lot of knowledge to be culled and transfered from others. The brainy quote – thousands of quotations organized by topic, author and type.

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Memory Makeover: Tips to Spruce Up an Absent Mind

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The encoding stage refers to the process of putting information into memory. The storage stage refers to retention or maintaining information in memory. The retrieval stage refers to recovering information from memory. Get hooked on mnemonics. Mnemonic devices boost memory through associations.

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How to be of More Value to Your Boss

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For example, Dr. William Harvey made medical history by explaining how the circulatory system worked: He likened the heart to a pump and gave himself a new frame of reference—and from that he understood blood vessels as part of a unified pumping system. (2) When your boss is having a bad day, it can be easy to pass that mood along to you.

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Webiste Critique Special Report: Kidorable

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People know to look for items like “our return policy&# there, and you’ll keep more attention on your actual products and sales. We also want to note that you do have some cool stuff in the sidebar – $20 for referring a friend, gift finders, an affiliate program, a survey (clickety click!)… Say, in the footer.

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Why You Should Travel Back Through Time | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

In fact, a friend of mine wrote out that last post by hand in blue and gold pen as a gift to me. I had a look back at the one you said you weren’t that proud of, the one about punctuation, it made me think maybe we should start refering to all our back posts in the style of Friends episodes i.e I have it hung on my wall.

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How to Put Rumors to Rest

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We never referred to it obliquely a few weeks back. MCE Holiday Gift Guide—for you, for customers, and for special people on your list Reply James ( @MenwithPens ) November 23, 2009 at 8:49 am Hey, no one can accuse of using the “buy now! There is no ebook. There has never been an ebook. We haven’t been keeping it under wraps.

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