Workplace Insight

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (above) produced an essay on the issue some 2,000 years ago. It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it,” he writes. Tempus fugit after all, and as a consequence we’ve always known that how we spend our days is how we spend our lives.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 14, 2023

In the book, he cites a 1987 essay from Tom Wolfe called The Great Relearning , which predicts that the 21st Century will be characterised by paroxysms of reinvention of things already known. As Myerson and co-author Philip Ross write: “Wolfe described a process of starting from zero that was evident in many fields.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

But when the sick kids and bad deals inevitably come to test your grit, “Gee, I’d like more money” will not carry you over the mountain. Write and think about it. Write a list of activities you refuse to do and plaster it on your walls. No time to review your lecture notes. You survive class, but a million tasks wait at home.

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Productivity Bits

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Since blogging is a simple exchange similar to a conversation, it does not need a degree in journalism to write fancy notes and essays. Copyright © 2011 Guest Author. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest Post. B rands have become the most important factor for selling products. Brand building however, is not easy.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 10, 2012

You’ll learn language skills as you write essays, sure, but no one’s going to ask you to write a 20-page screed on Proust in any marketing department. Don’t know how to write that sales page? Not sure how to write an ebook? That class on Russian social studies will never earn your business any money.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

It’s not until you are paying someone money, to help make your life easier, do you realize the challenges of finding someone good, eager. Remember in grade school when you got that assignment to write directions or an essay explaining how to do something step by step, like making a sandwich or whatever you chose? Wash your car.

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Service Untitled

MARCH 10, 2010

The culture of the company is what the company is all about, and as new employees train with two weeks of classroom training and two weeks of practical knowledge answering customer calls, they are offered money to the tune of $1000 to quit if they feel they do not fit with the culture. It is a place where employees want to come to work.

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Success

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Three years ago I was working for myself and living a good and simple life , making enough money to live, exploring enough to be alive. . Still the independent part of me wonders where that old freelancer went missing, and when the heck I became someone who writes about benefits and stability. Then my dad died. And meetings.

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Success

MARCH 28, 2022

I sell you water if you’re thirsty; you sell me paper if I need to print out documents or write letters. Anyone who has committed to a diet or weight-loss plan—and stuck with it for a solid four or five months—is surely familiar with the plateau phenomenon. When you enter a new profession, you tend to gravitate to your comfort zones.”.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Being a business owner forced me into new emotional territory – specifically the lands of money and self-promotion – and it was a place that caused me extreme discomfort. Now I had to do the marketing myself. And I was just about to throw in the business towel when a friend suggested I read a book on Leonardo da Vinci and genius.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Being a business owner forced me into new emotional territory – specifically the lands of money and self-promotion – and it was a place that caused me extreme discomfort. Now I had to do the marketing myself. And I was just about to throw in the business towel when a friend suggested I read a book on Leonardo da Vinci and genius.

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On The Job

DECEMBER 1, 2009

When I graduated from college, my priorities were: getting a job doing something I loved, having opportunities for advancement and making enough money to pay the rent. Not so different from what Generation Y wants now, is it? And, I have even more in common with them: I needed a job when the economy was basically in the toilet.

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 1, 2024

An idea that has never really gone away, but which seems to be enjoying a new lease of life is the tabula rasa. The conception of people as a blank slate is something that has crept back into mainstream political and social thought for a variety of reasons. Symbolic images abound in the workplace,” he says.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 23, 2010

There are copywriters, bloggers, academic writers (the vanilla of the writing world?), Writing fiction is self-indulgence. It’s hard to write good fiction. If you want to make money writing, you’re far more likely to achieve the goal through non-fiction. Even though writing a short story takes a week of hard graft.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

Most freelancers have enough trouble scrapping together money for the rent without having to worry about paying another couple of tens of thousands. Most freelancers have enough trouble scrapping together money for the rent without having to worry about paying another couple of tens of thousands. That’s right. You’re a freelancer.

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Workplace Insight

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Good news writes white. From the miniseries Childhood’s End As long ago as 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes was addressing the issue in an essay called Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren. It is the literal end of history. Even the newspapers have vanished because there is nothing to fill their pages.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

That’s part of the problem with blogging – you write, you post, people read your work for a couple of days, and then it gets buried in the archives. The posts I write that combine personal experience, a story, some expertise and action tips that you can take away are always my favourite. Oh, and this one about a camera.

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Productivityist

JULY 13, 2015

Now let’s look at an example that leads to procrastination: Imagine you have to write an essay and you have four weeks to do it in. You’re not going to get a ton of value from this essay. Sure you might get a good grade if you really try, but it’s not like this essay is going to earn you any money.

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The benefits included a renewed confidence in my writing, massive amounts of ideas for articles, and a honing of my skills. People often use it to slam conformity, but when they do, they reveal that they are just as ignorant of it’s point as I used to be. It started as a 30 day trial, to see what I would get out of it.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

You might have a degree in archaeology and now you write code for a living. Or you got your degree in comparative religion and now you write a blog about snow sports. I have to know why writing in little paragraphs is easier on readers’ brains than big ones. Years later, I run an editing and writing business.

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Brilliantly Better

MAY 27, 2010

There was a 10 minutes break between classes and I almost always used this short break to write my homework. I didn’t improvise at all, while I was quickly writing my assignments. Some essay that I have to concoct in less than 10 minutes? The Secret Whatever. The truth is I wasn’t a good kid in school because of my memory.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

I was having a conversation with Deb Ng of Freelance Writing Gigs on Twitter , and I smirked at her comment. I was having a conversation with Deb Ng of Freelance Writing Gigs on Twitter , and I smirked at her comment. We blog our hearts out, pouring creativity, knowledge and advice into each post we write. We’re bloggers.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 15, 2009

James and I do the same kind of writing, and our male clients have been absolutely thrilled with the copy that both of us have written. James and I do the same kind of writing, and our male clients have been absolutely thrilled with the copy that both of us have written. After all, I’m a woman.

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