Do either of these two scenarios sound familiar? You make a phone call to someone but they are currently unavailable. You leave a voicemail for them to call you back. You send an email to someone with a question or a concern. You look forward to hearing back from them...
A few months ago I covered the word “label” in a Hidden Power of Words entry. While I dove into the word origins of labels and whether or not one actually needed language or symbols to write on a label (color-coding anyone?), I started thinking about physical or...
Happy New Year! Now that we’ve counted down to 2012, we can count down some more with 10 More Ways to Organize Items… Number 10. Location Number 9. Number Number 8. Purpose Number 7. Sound Number 6. Smell Number 5. Taste Number 4. Touch Number 3. Sight Number 2....
Calendars not only serve to help us keep track of current and present events, but are great sources of information when it comes to piecing together times past. Ever look back on a calendar from a past year? There’s so much available information that can help you in...
What do you want to do if you want to grow some plants or flowers in a garden? First you buy some seeds, prepare the land, plant and water the seeds, watch over them and in time you’ll have a full garden. There’s no way around it. If you don’t make plans now...
This is one of those riddle-type questions that will surely bring up two camps of thoughts. Let’s take a look at both sides using a production line example. Yes, You Must Work Fast In Order To Be Productive If you want to churn out sheer numbers of something, it can...
Here’s a list of 10 Ways to Organize Items. I’m going to challenge myself to list as many as I possibly can in the near future, but this is a start… Number 10. Shape Number 9. Size Number 8. Color Number 7. Pattern Number 6. Texture Number 5. Weight Number 4. Length...
In American English, the phrase “make time” represents either planning ahead and budgeting time for a future activity or event and/or canceling or rescheduling previous engagements. The phrase can also represent the need to plan for something important or something...
We all work in different ways and perform better or worse under a host of different environments. Do you know the optimal conditions for you in which to produce your best work? Location, Location, Location Where do you work best for any given project? Obviously there...
New Year’s resolutions are traditionally reserved for, well, the first of the New Year…a time of new beginnings and that dizzying, limbo-like period of relaxation, and recuperation, with the additional air of calm after the holiday storm. It’s a time to “get down to...