How would you like to increase your productivity by at least 35%?

I’ve been in pursuit of improving my filing system for years.  I’ve tried many different systems.  At first, they would seem to be okay, but then became cumbersome and time consuming.  Statistics show that we spend up to 35% of our time looking for something.

At this point, you probably think I’m going to try to sell you something.  I’m not.  I just want to share a timesaving tool with you that you already have and which may have slipped your notice.

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So often your attitude determines your altitude (Author unknown).  Nowhere is that more evident than in the workplace.

Are you one of those people who hate to go to their “job” every day?  They do it because they have to earn a living and it is the responsible thing to do, but they approach each day with dread. Read more

Sometimes it costs us more not to do something than it does if we do it.

For example, I would much rather have someone else clean my house.  It costs me X$ to have someone else clean it, while I can be creating new products that I can sell for X$.

If you would rather clean your own house because it’s your way of relaxing and thinking, that’s a different story.  For me, it isn’t.  I earn more per hour than I pay to get this chore done.  Besides I prefer creating new information products.

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Having trouble writing your blogs?  Feel you would like to keep your blog more up to date?  Getting that guilty feeling because you’re not updating your blog on a regular basis, or submitting articles regularly.  (I am so I came up with these ideas that I can follow)

Following are seven easy ways to write blog entries and/or articles. Read more

I’m going to reveal a secret used by transcriptionists which aids in typing faster and more accurately, and can save all of us that important element called Time. 

At first glance, this may seem to be contrary to my previous advice about creating products by recording your material.  Not true.  It’s still better to create information products by recording and getting transcribed.  Nevertheless, all of us do have other instances when we have to type something – an email, a note, a blog entry, taking notes at a meeting.

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What permanent legacy are you leaving your family?  It used to be through chatty letters.  Without letters or other recorded messages, once you are no longer a part of their life, how is your family going to know what your life was like?  The answer is to record it so it becomes a permanent record that can be listened to any time.  Read more

Because we rarely use a notary public, some people have a misconception of what a Notary Public does.  They often think that by putting their seal on a document, it is a declaration that the document or statement is true.  This is not the case.

 
Laws differ from state-to-state, but a notary public witnesses the signing of documents and insures to the best of their ability that the person signing the document is who they say they are.  The notary does this by asking for their driver’s license, passport, military ID, or other legal proof of identification.  (There are some exceptions to this rule if a person doesn’t have identification, but I’ll save that for another time.)

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From my own experience, here are two scenarios for you. Which one do you think can create information products faster and easier? Which one can create more information products? Which one is spending their time more efficiently and making more money?

At one time in my distant past, I was a legal secretary. I worked for two attorneys in a small, one secretary office in the San Fernando Valley in California.

One of the attorneys had to have me in his office so he could dictate his correspondence and legal documents, which I then transcribed from my shorthand.

Requiring me to be in his office while he dictated was both painful and time consuming. Read more

I’m looking forward to the first week in May since I will be attending another one of Susan Levin’s Speakers’ Summits. 

In a recent interview, grammarian expert Laura Jarnat revealed five easy steps to get your audience to read what you write.  Laura has been a speaker and trainer for 15 years and has a passion for grammar.  In fact, she will tell you she reads the Great Reference Manual for fun.  Follow Laura’s advice in these five easy steps and your audience will be more likely to read what you write.

1.  Consider your reader’s time and focus on what they want. Write at a level that is optimum for your reader to undersand. The current standard, and has been for a few years, is to write at the 8th grade level. You  may think that’s ridiculous and a reflection of the educaition system in our country today. Really, it has to do with a commodity called “time” that we have in short supply. Very simply, it takes time to read anything that’s written at greater than the 8th grade level. Read more