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What 30 Days of Productivity Taught Me About Finding Time

Success

When she asked me to play the assigned pieces, it was clear I hadn’t touched any part of my keyboard or even glanced at the sheet music outside of her practice room. One of the places I get to exercise this kind of control is in GarageBand or Logic Pro X, the new and improved version with a bigger sound library. It’s structured.

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Does Office Design Really Affect Productivity?

Productivity Bits

Also, you should use a separate keyboard to maintain the ideal 90-degree angle of your hands. At home you may have less flexibility, but you can put a sofa in, motivational paintings, plants, or change your favorite coffee house for the park or local library from time to time. Where you work really does matter.

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The Most Important Trait To Boost Your Productivity

Productivityist

Deciding What To Learn: Goals and Problems. To achieve advanced productivity, our learning has to be connected to a goal or a problem. In deciding what you need to learn, I advocate choosing one of the following paths: Goal-based Learning. We all need to have goals for our lives. There is a world of knowledge out there.

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How I Organize My Mac

Productivityist

The Air has less than half the storage of my old MacBook Pro, so my goal is always to keep it lean and mean. Here’s what media I don’t keep locally: My main iTunes Library. My main iPhoto Library. 2 Apps I’ll be putting in the Dock soon for testing exercises include: Raven, Hibari, Marked, Money and Keyboard Maestro.

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Why Accepting Guest Articles Isn’t As Easy as It Looks

Small Business CEO

Before you accept guest posts, you want to make sure that you have a really good library of articles that you have written. Really ask yourself what your goal is for your blog. Hands on Laptop Keyboard Photo via Shutterstock. After all, why wouldn’t you want to bring in a new audience and a new perspective?

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Are You Interfering With Your Readers' Lives?

Men With Pens

No matter what the topic is, before you put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, be sure that you have the qualifications to write about whatever you are about to share. They can be inspiring, they can be uplifting, or they can help you reach your goals, from learning how to juggle to shaking off low self-esteem to improving your business.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

If your goal from university is to be rich, then skip it and work on a start up. Reply John Lister ( @johnlister ) December 14, 2009 at 5:50 pm The cleverest person in the world doesn’t know as much as someone with a library card who’s learned how to use it. I think little bits of it also come out in my library worrk.

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