Eat Your Career

JULY 9, 2019

In this article, you’re going to learn exactly what should be included in a PDP document and the simple 10-step process I use to write a PDP. This process is outlined in more detail in the Build Your Professional Development Plan workbook. It works perfectly for me and my clients. Execution : DO THE WORK!

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Success

JANUARY 30, 2024

Only by unlearning silence can we more fully unleash talent, speak our minds and be more complete versions of ourselves… and help other people do the same,” she writes in her book. When it was my turn, again I spoke up and gave examples of both, and it turned into a huge investigation in the company.

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Eat Your Career

AUGUST 28, 2023

If you’re like me, all of this noise can create a lot of anxiety and overwhelm. To give you a few examples…The platform I use for my website had a recent update and now it allows you to generate A.I. You can ask it to do anything—teach, write, edit, outline, you name it. When you see new options to use A.I.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Take a moment and ask yourself these questions: If I earn millions of dollars, but destroy my health in the process, is that success? If I become the best in my industry, but neglect my family and friends, is that success? If I acquire great wealth and notoriety, but compromise my integrity and faith to do so, is that success?

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Clutter Coach

OCTOBER 17, 2019

His question is: how do I prevent that from happening without micromanaging my assistant? The project timeline can be outlined on a whiteboard, real or virtual, where everyone can see it and know how their work fits in with everyone else’s. In the example case, he can ask his assistant to write regular reports on the project.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

For the past four or five years, I’ve been spending hours every week researching and writing articles. Almost every article I write requires several hours of research. Then I’d end up stressed about meeting my deadlines. A few months ago, I started thinking more critically about my writing process.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 24, 2012

Normally, creating content is something that is amazingly easy for me.    Everywhere I turn, my brain turns that experience into a blog post, podcast or video idea.    That is a good thing, considering my clients find me through my content distribution systems.  4 - Start Writing.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 17, 2022

If you’re like me, you’ll wait until your energy is best suited to work on that priority. If you’re someone who is an early riser (or a Lion, as outlined in The Power of When ) then you’d be best serving yourself and your to-do list by taking on your most energy-sensitive tasks early in the day.

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Success

MARCH 8, 2023

We are a typical global, internet-based media company, operated out of the garage in my house.” The new arena for business is being built from recycled shards of the glass ceiling. It’s a welcoming space for women entrepreneurs, one where collaboration, consensus and diversity rule. of employer businesses in 2019—a growth of 16.7%

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Eat Your Career

MAY 30, 2012

At various points in my career, I’ve been in managerial positions where I directly supervised people. I’ll be honest; it’s not my favorite thing to do (hence the one-woman show I run now). During the review, I asked her to create a document that outlined her suggestions for how to improve and I set a deadline of two weeks.

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The Marq

MAY 7, 2020

I’m hoping I can help with sharing what’s worked for me to ensure I don’t work too much, while still getting a lot done and keeping sane. So, my routine is meant to create habits that create virtuous cycles (wikipedia link). So, my routine is meant to create habits that create virtuous cycles (wikipedia link). ing shower.”

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Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

” “My family are sick of talking to my back as I’m constantly hunched over my desk!” ” “Give me five more minutes … and I’ll watch that movie with you.” “I don’t have time for a vacation!” ” Does any of this sound familiar? Spring break/Easter.

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 12, 2013

If you write a speech before delivering, use these four tips as a part of editing your first draft. If you prefer to speak from an outline, practice your talk keeping these principles in mind. Words such as: you, me I, they, we will make a talk more direct and add some informality. I should work on my speaking skills.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 10, 2017

My top tips before you request Buy-In are: Adopt your bosses preferred communication style i.e. The language of leadership. Highlight WIFM (what’s in it for me) and help them to see that you will gain skills and knowledge that will be essential for future growth. Millennials belong to a Show and Tell Culture.

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On The Job

MARCH 14, 2013

When the challenge was for my team to correctly spell "pharaoh," of course they chose me to take it on. But I try not to, because I know my professional reputation is at stake (not steak). But I try not to, because I know my professional reputation is at stake (not steak). Did any of them have typos?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JULY 22, 2011

  Today, 19 of my experts share their favorite and most creative use of the office supply gems.   Today, 19 of my experts share their favorite and most creative use of the office supply gems. I like to use the 4 by 6 size notes in bright colors to remind me of my 3 Most Important Tasks for the day.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Before I jump into the advice portion of this article, please allow me a moment to vent… I get anywhere from a couple dozen to a hundred or more emails a week from my blog readers. If you’ve sent me a message and waited breathlessly for a reply that never came, keep reading. I love it and I read them all, I assure you.

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Productivity Bits

JANUARY 16, 2012

T he past year 2011 has been good to me in general. Losing my personal voice. Losing my personal voice. My main goal when I started this blog was to be able to voice out my take on productivity topics that I am interested in. My own voice quickly faded away once the guest posts started to come in.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Many of my friends and colleagues run their businesses from all over the world and I have had a mobile business since 2003. Cafes with Awesome Wifi and My iPad. Basically my entire business is mobile. There's no reason for me to stay at home aside from convenience. It's easier to feed my cats when I'm here.

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Productivity Bits

DECEMBER 10, 2013

If you want to make money as a writer, it pays to not only write well, but fast. To make these gigs worthwhile, you need to be able to write efficiently — otherwise you’ll be living the stereotypical writer’s life, subsisting on a dismal hourly rate. Hack #1: Pre-write You’ll save time by simply having a plan.

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Productivityist

OCTOBER 12, 2015

” I’ve got two ideas for a book that have been eating at me for a while now. Now if both weren’t pulling at me, this wouldn’t be a problem. So I’ve got my mind set on the fact this book is designed for traditional publishing. The first book will take much longer to write. Not signed up for the newsletter yet?

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On The Job

OCTOBER 21, 2010

When I write for Gannett/USAToday.com, my column is picked up by newspapers and different websites all over the world. For example, "years30on" responded at the end of my story: " There's a term for this 'Learn to manage your boss' - FIRED." Tulgan suggests workers should: • Corner the boss. Value human interaction.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 26, 2012

He slumps over his keyboard day after day wondering why the writing gods are always punishing him. You don’t have to be intoxicated, angst-ridden, or even brilliant to write well. I know this because I took the Damn Fine Words writing course, taught by A-list blogger and professional copywriter, James Chartrand.

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Job Advice Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

He was asking me to evaluate a proposal he had received from a career marketing firm. He wanted my opinion because I’m a career coach–and because I myself had once been victimized by a similar firm. The next FIVE pages outlined the firm’s services in a very attractive way for someone in transition.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JULY 15, 2013

  It helps me figure out what to write about!    I use it as my content brainstorming tool. Fortunately, Jason Mun created a great post outlining how to use the new tool.    I have found that de-cluttering is one of the best things I can do for my business too.    Woot!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 16, 2011

  Writing things down was identified consistantly!    Today, one of my contributors, Kariné Macri, expands on the things she has done to make sure procedures are in place for her business.  I am a Writing + Language Specialist. Last week I shared 16 Things Business Owners Would Do Differently.

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Success

AUGUST 12, 2022

Maybe I should have never stepped out from the fray to do something on my own. It was one of the best times of my life. The interviews are done and now it’s just me, Florida, my IKEA desk and 800 pages of interview transcriptions that I need to turn into a book, one that weaves 120 different stories into a cohesive whole.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 21, 2011

One of the reasons that I can get so much done in my business and in life is because I like things that are easy to implement and this is certainly one of them.    If you follow me on my various platforms ( www.SocialWithSteph.com ) you may have noticed that I do this quite a bit.    See [link].

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Success

JANUARY 12, 2023

If my stress level gets high, I get to the root cause of it, which helps. I was finishing the script for Star Trek and simultaneously had to write Transformers 2. My writing partner and I had only three weeks to write Transformers 2 before the strike began. Instead, we wrote the most detailed outline we could.

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Productivityist

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

I opened up my iPhone and tried to clean off the dust on the camera lens. Well, I got the dust out, but managed to break my iPhone. While I’ve had time to cool my heels – and activate an old phone – I’ve realized that this snafu indeed has a silver lining. My productivity has increased as my options have decreased.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 23, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Speaking Tips Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on June 23, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. What if the audience hates me on sight? Thanks for visiting! Be yourself; speak naturally.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The ideas in my mind, in addition to my normal workload, were weighing me down. It was tough to part with this product because I know it will help people, but it’s no longer a fit for me (or Productivityist). He started The Now Page Movement and I’ve created a Now page on my own website.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It pains me to announce that my grand experiment with using electronic time management systems has officially come to an end (sort of). You see, for the past several years, I’ve been using a variety of tech tools to help organize my life and work—appointments, tasks, projects and more. And voila, my electronic adventure began.

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Office Organization Success

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Something that is important to me is being able to have a lot of free time during July and August when my children are on summer vacation, so I plan my programs and training around the academic school year – that way I can plan for their other school holidays too. Also plan your programs and trainings around your vacation time.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The ideas in my mind, in addition to my normal workload, were weighing me down. It was tough to part with this product because I know it will help people, but it’s no longer a fit for me (or Productivityist). He started The Now Page Movement and I’ve created a Now page on my own website.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The ideas in my mind, in addition to my normal workload, were weighing me down. It was tough to part with this product because I know it will help people, but it’s no longer a fit for me (or Productivityist). He started The Now Page Movement and I’ve created a Now page on my own website.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 30, 2013

  When you write a powerful testimony that shares who you are and your before. you write it for.   One of my private clients really took to this idea.  Those are great things to be thinking about and today I'm going to share a simple, yet often overlooked activity that will help you do that.

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