5 Essential Elements for Running a Successful Home Business
Running your own home-based business is not for everyone, but most people at some point in their life have given the idea some consideration. It provides many things that a regular job cannot, and if you run the business alongside your regular job, you can have the...
The Bullet Journal: Your Secret Weapon for Excellent Time Management
There are plenty of time-management and organization systems. But right now, there’s one organizational tool that’s very much “in vogue” and doing the rounds on Instagram and across productivity/self-improvement blogs. That tool is the bullet journal. The bullet...
How to Set SMART Goals for the New Year
One of the best ways to guarantee goal-setting success is to ensure that each of your goals or New Year's resolutions fits the SMART formula. SMART is an acronym that stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely. When your goals have these...
A Quick Guide to Setting Effective Daily Goals
Do you find it easy to set exciting goals, but you lose track somewhere along the way? As much as you want to lose weight or earn a promotion, you often find yourself back where you started. Setting daily goals may be your key to success. Hang onto your long-term...
12 Effective Public Relations Strategies for Small Businesses
Are you missing out on valuable opportunities because your small business can’t afford a fancy PR firm? Organizations of any size can benefit from public relations, and there are many techniques that you can use on your own. In fact, you probably engage in PR as you...
How to Maintain Security in the Age of Remote Work
Remote work is quickly becoming the new normal for modern companies. In a world where many offices were forced to shut down during the 2020 pandemic, team leaders discovered something. Remote and hybrid working seems to be effective at improving productivity....
How to Create Effective Processes as an Executive Assistant
Much of an executive assistant’s day is routine. There may be daily or weekly graphs and reports to generate, phone calls and emails to screen, travel plans to be made, and meeting notes to record and distribute. Anything that is done regularly should be considered...
15 Things You Don’t Have Time for When Pursuing Big Goals
Big goals require commitment and focus. You don’t have time for the things that people with mediocre results spend their time on. There are things you have to be willing to give up. Fortunately, if you’re truly committed, these things are easy to avoid. However, they...
7 Tips to Help You Meet Any Deadline
Regardless of how much you love your job, there will always be times when you have trouble motivating yourself to work. It happens to everyone from time to time. And, during the slow times, you're able to slack off a bit. However, a too-relaxed attitude begins to...