The Simplest Secret to stop being “Busy” and Start being Productive

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Do you commonly describe your life as busy? The term carries a surprising amount of stress with it. The misconception is that being busy makes your life have more meaning – it describes a behavior more than an activity level. Busy bees: working hard, repeating the same task…

Why Professionals Use Rituals to Get Ahead

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] It’s Monday, and you could not dread more the start of the week than you do right now, splayed out under the covers. Your alarm clock (read: smartphone) launches a wailing siren’s call commanding your complete consciousness. How can you transform this fatigue- and dread-paralyzed version of yourself…

True or False: Office Style Equals Office Efficiency

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] It can be challenging for truly stoic entrepreneurs to admit that style reflects intelligence, and makes huge impacts on internal efficiency. Offices are meant to be the mecca of efficiency, productivity, and leadership – yet the vast majority of offices do not bother to focus on the external…

Quick, To the Cloud! The Inexpensive, Effective SaaS Cloud Computing Option

Quick, to the Cloud! The days of paper filing cabinets, libraries of receipts, and dot-matrix printers spitting out lines of double-sided paper are far behind us. Although some businesses, particularly small-volume retail sales still manage to hold on to the ancient dot-matrix printers hard-wired into rudimentary point-of-sale systems for ease of printing customer receipts, much…