Have you ever noticed that the ‘F’ and ‘J’ buttons on your keyboard have a special groove on them? To me it was a surprise and did not know the answer until yesterday. What is the purpose of this design?
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Sales people sometimes have to develop a timeline and cover their company’s history, the development of their most valuable project or simply to depict their projections for the next couple of years. In order to develop a nice and open to customization timeline, they can use Excel spreadsheets. Office hours are demanding and sometimes we lose track of all tasks we need to cover. In order to develop reliable system to follow our tasks, we use sticky notes, handwritten reminders, mail pop-ups and etc. Some people also use Excel spreadsheets. Multitasking might have advantages but singletasking is also a way of reaching productivity. In the ultimate search for the best way to address your schedule, why not try dealing with things one by one in a straight fashion? Easier said than done, right? In October 2007 Eurostat published a pocketbook Cultural statistics with focus on culture. There has not been an update on this book since then and moreover this is the first and only Eurostat edition on this subject. Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Communities and among other things in their book they compare the average daily time spent on various activities by the inhabitants of eight European countries (see Chapter 3: Time spent on cultural activities). Phone conversations sometimes last longer than initially planned. Simple math shows that only 10 calls a day, lasting 5-6 minutes more than really needed, lessen our productivity by an hour. Trips of less than three to five miles will probably be quicker by bike. So it looks like it’s worth the try. And besides that bicycling to work can be part of your daily minutes of activity, so vital for your health. Keeping an account with a bank that can be linked to your monthly bills is extremely helpful in reducing time for payments. How to do it? Subscribe at your bank for electronic banking. Through this service you can instruct your bank to automatically pay certain dues from your account, such as your auto loans, insurance premiums, mortgage installments and utility bills. In case you do not like the automatic feature, you can always opt for a manual confirmation of each payment, once it is due. Many of us feel they do not have time to read books and magazines. Not that they do not want to. Among the usual causes are that we are too tired or busy or prefer taking a nap or watching TV. Usually people prefer to dedicate themselves to reading in a quiet place and without distraction. This is luxury. Try to learn the mastery to read in a noisy environment and with various distractions. The learning curve might seem a steep one but the goal is worth it. |
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