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I’m going to admit something here. Some days I feel up and some days, well, I don’t. There are days when I really do feel like I am rocking my world. Words are flowing, I have great ideas, and execution is easy. And there are the other kind when I feel like the world is…
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Category Archives: Time management
Time Wasters: Not My Problem
Scary title, Huh? Those of you who know me know I have a helping spirit. There is nothing wrong with that and the world benefits from people who do. But you can take anything to an extreme. Every once in awhile I have to remember that every problem out there isn’t there for Julie (if…
How do you start your day?
Mohammed Al-Taee asked question on his Facebook page about a statement of who a skillful employer will hire… it included “stupid people” and Mohammed asked myself, Heather Coleman, and Walter Akana if we had an answer. It wasn’t where I planned to go today but it is on my mind. There are different kinds of…
How Much Twitter Input Can YOU Handle?
2010 is a year of experimentation for me. As my regular blog visitors know, I have made some dramatic changes in my life this year. 2010 is my year to focus on my business, Design Resumes. Let’s take Twitter for example. When I joined Twitter, initially, I was amazed that people were following me, people…
Nutritional Chaos
Job Stickiness #4 a series to help you keep jobs or tips to make you sticky in the next one. I couldn’t even write this post until I ate. I was looking for a food photo and could feel the hypoglycemic response building in me. Irritability, anger… crabbiness, wow, is that all food-related? For me, it…
Organization & Job Stickiness: The Colored Pen To-Do List
Job Stickiness – #2 - a series that can help us keep jobs or tips to make us stick in the next one. What do colored pens have to do with Job Stickiness? The previous Job Stickiness post talked about Maximizing Your Energy Levels, how finding what your best times to work (and sleep) can make…
Dream within a dream
Did you ever have one of those dreams where it felt like an endless cycle and you felt like you were wide awake even moving forward on tasks you would do and then realize that you are still asleep? I was having one of those dreams this morning and I was literally up writing a…
Business Advice from Fiction and Mom
My mom has always loved to read. She’s 82 now and is still buying books and reading every day. When my sons were younger, they used to laugh because it would be 90 degrees outside and they would say, “There’s Gramma, still in the hot house, sitting in the hot kitchen, drinking hot tea, and…
Are You a Martyr?
Are you a martyr or do you have a martyr-like personality? I’ve been doing much introspective thinking lately. I announced that I was leaving Wausau Whitewater as the Operations Manager to focus on the Design Resumes side of me. Though I had the help of board members, volunteers, and others, I still was carrying a…
Blow the lid off your potential
The headline of this blog is directly borrowed from Jim Connolly. You’ll see why I chose it shortly. When I wandered over to Twitter, one of the first people that caught my eye, was Jim Connolly from the UK. His About You on his blog says: “Jim Connolly has worked in marketing for 23 years…