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Who Moved My Cheese: Don’t File That Divorce Just Yet!

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I know that this stretch of Who Moved My Cheese “lessons” may well get to you, because I have FOUR posts dedicated to them, but I just had to make a disclaimer before I give you the Cliff’s Notes of its principles for next week.

Cheese, in Who Moved My Cheese, is a metaphor for anything in life that gives security. The book is all about adapting to change. As applied to relationships, there is a danger for people to take it the wrong way. So before I give you the Cliff’s Notes of the Who Moved My Cheese parable, let me explain how its principles could be applied to Moldy Cheese Relationships.

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Who Moved My Cheese: An Intro

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Who Moved My Cheese had become a modern-day parable, of sorts, to the stressed and harassed individual, who, paradoxically, seems resistant to change.

It is a collection of K-I-S-S principles wrapped in a kid-story package that is sure to be embraced by a lot of people, because it is very non-offensive. The “wrapper” story is a story of two mice and two “littlepeople,” whose attitudes to change were told around how they reacted when their “cheese” suddenly disappeared. [Read more…]

Why You Need To Rest Part 2: Tips for staying in tip-top performance

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Just this Monday, I posted on why we all need to rest. Now my tips for staying at peak performance include:

Have a rest day. Whether you’re Jewish, Christian, Moslem, Buddhist, Baha’i, Agnostic, or an Atheist, set a rest day where you can recharge and renew your energies. On that day, turn off your computer. Set aside everything that resembles your paperwork, even post-its. Grab a non-business or work-related book, a feel-good book, a feel-good DVD that doesn’t require you to think, and just relax. [Read more…]

Writer’s Survival Kit 2: Tools for the Tech-Savvy Scribe-slash-Visionary

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Last week, I discussed my primitivo royale writer’s tools to maximize time. Now here is my concept survival kit, because I have yet to purchase any of these, because I had to fill my room with essentials first.

I believe that the tech-savvy writer has to have the best tools of the trade in order to do his or her job excellently. These tools, these gadgets do not have to be the top-of-the-line branded stuff, but as long as they:

  • are sturdy, durable, and will last you at least two years
  • deliver decent to great output
  • serve their purpose and more..

..then they are top-notch in my book. More so if they are as hot as this baby that I deem essential to my career, and am actually aiming to get.

I believe that a writer/blogger, when offline, has to have these essentials [Read more…]

Why You Need To Rest Part 1: Intro

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Finally, I’m starting my workweek!

After an entire week of downtime, virtually doing NOTHING and feeling worthless, I’m only too glad to be making money err, working again.

Speaking of feeling worthless and for what it’s worth for women who love to multi-task, I’m listing here what I think I should do, and what I believe are essential for staying in tip-top shape, productivity-wise.

I believe that productivity is not a matter of pushing yourself to the limit. Rather, it’s a matter of getting that work-life balance thing down pat. [Read more…]