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Take Small Steps To Accomplish More One sure way for you to become unhappy is for you to try to accomplish too much at once. You set yourself up for disappointment when you fail to meet your goals. This is usually the case when you have too many tasks at hand thatare overwhelming. When you are faced with overwhelming tasks, the only thing you can do in order to successfully accomplish them is to take very small steps. If you look at the overall big picture, you will probably do nothing at all and the tasks will never get done. These unfinished tasks will, over time, cause unhappiness and frustration. Organize Your Office For instance, let us say that you have a home office that is piled with stacks of paper and receipts and all sorts of clutter. You have been having problems focusing while working and you can pinpoint the cause of the distractions:the clutter in your work area. However, with pressing deadlines, you do not have hours and hours to spend organizing your office spa

How To Perform Effectively On The Job  Many people whose work consists mainly of physical activity will often find it hard to believe that spending eight hours sitting at a desk in front of the computer can be just as exhausting. Still, even if the effort is of a different kind, it is still an effort, and you’ll need to be prepared for it. To put it in plain English, you need to eat enough. Eat A Nutritious Breakfast Indeed, the amount of energy you start your morning with can have surprising effects on your performance, as well as your general level of enthusiasm throughout your working day. You should avoid reporting for work on an empty stomach . Eat a healthy breakfast so you can work well and maintain a cheerful disposition the whole day. By the way, in case you’re worried about your waistline, you should know that higher calorie consumption during the first half of the day will not have undesired effects on your physical shape . On the contrary, it is the

Organize Your Activities Everybody these days complain that he or she does not have time for anything, nor have any spare time. However, most people forget or don’t take into consideration the amount of time they lose with all sort of non-important activities . If people could better organize their lives and the activities they do, then they would have more time. Organize Your Work Area For instance, have you ever misplaced a file in a cluttered desk ? You probably did. Can you remember the amount of time you spent on trying to find it? It probably took up a lot of your time before you located the file. If you were not able the file then the effort; besides having been in vain, also took a lot of your time and energy. And this without taking into consideration, that you could have never found the file you were looking for, ever again. This can be very frustrating. Organize Your Desk Now, imagine that if you have had a better-organized desk , a better- organized work area , t

Valuable Employee Information      Have you ever started a new job and were unsure when a pay day was or unsure what type of benefits a company had to offer? Have you ever worked for a company and not known what type of information you should keep confidential? Have you ever been written up for a mistake that someone had trained you as the right way to do? There are a number of important documents that an employee should make sure he or she obtains and maintains. Unfortunately, as companies grow and the number of employees increase and the complication of a process increases, there are times valuable information does not get to the employee in the fashion that it should. However, by searching for and maintaining important documents, you can be proactive and ensure that you get all the information you need.   Documents that set out your company’s goals and policies should be first on the list of documents you should obtain. If the company you work for has a mission, vision and v

                                                         Make Yourself Seen  When it comes to the degree of visibility in an organization, most people would agree that keeping a high profile is better than going unnoticed. If you’re not convinced of that yet, read the rest of this article. Keep A High Profile There is an old Chinese story about a man who had a cat. The cat was very good at hunting mice, and the man was glad that he didn’t have to worry about too many rodents in his home. One day, however, while he was visiting his neighbor, he heard a lot of noise coming from the attic. The explanation he got was that the neighbor’s cat was busy chasing mice. The man started suspecting his own cat of laziness, since he had never heard such noise coming from his own attic. Of course, the good cat knew perfectly well that, while chasing mice could be done quite all right with a lot of caterwauling and racing around, it took a silent and patient hunter to actually catch them. But t

                                              Being Punctual Shows Respect                                                                                      Punctuality is a quality that is very much appreciated. Being punctual gives the impression that you are professional. Punctuality is also a sign that you respect other people's time. Being punctual for a job interview gives a prospective employer the impression that you are professional and are serious about getting the job. Obviously, being late at such an event will not be a good starting point for you. Being Punctual Helps You Feel Relaxed On the day of your job interview, you need to get ready on time for the interview. Leave your place early enough so that you won't have to run and be tired the moment you arrive. Organize your time in such a way that you are prepared for unpleasant and unexpected events like traffic jams and so on. Being On Time Says Something About Your Professionalism It is an unwritten

                                                How To Avoid Getting Fired From Your Job  Do Not Pad Your Resume Every day, we hear about someone "padding" a resume in order to get a better job. ELIZABETH STANTON, in her article in the New York Times, entitled "If a Résumé Lies, Truth Can Loom Large" writes "Padding can take many creative forms: extending the length of employment so it doesn't look as though you've been out of work too long; changing a former job title, say, to account executive from executive assistant; or claiming to hold a degree when you're a few credits shy. Some people have made up eye-catching stints at defunct, and untraceable, dot-com companies, experts say". In the most extreme cases, people have been known to falsify almost their entire lives in order to land a position that might pay them well. Examples as reported by the New York Times are Ronald L. Zarrella and Kenneth E.Lonchar.This practice, even in the sma