May 22, 2008
Online Safety at a Low Price (with the plus of spam reduction)
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In the previous article, i was covering the description of the services of Todd Davis’s company - Life Lock, and how a small amount (10 USD) can buy more than just Identity Protection, but also a lot of satisfaction and inner feeling of safety and comfort. Just joking.
But, out of joke, Lifelock also offers an additional service which deserves to be explained a bit further in the lifelock reviews by consumers: spam reduction. And, maybe there is no one who does not receive tons of spam email messages in his/her inbox every day.
And, unless you are in the percentile 99 of weirdness, it is almost impossible not to feel annoyed by the avalanche of emails that can clutter the inbox. Have i explained in the past, that the spam sometimes is not only an innocent-though-annoying message. In lots of cases, the spam is also the Trojan backdoor of the scam.
The mechanism behind the service is so basic that almost everyone would agree that it is something that could be made by oneself. Of course, if and only if one had time enough to be sending emails and spending time to check for the new actors of internet marketing. And that is what LifeLock does, they just send messages to the main Internet Marketers, asking that your email not be included in their mass email lists. Simple, right? Though, it is a very time consuming activity.
Finally, to close the review, the company offers some lifelock promo code (there may be many, over there) that you can use to obtain a reasonable discount: RD17.
Did i forget to mention the 1,000,000.00 USD warranty? Up to 1,000,000.00 USD, your identity is protected against fraud. Ten dollars a month does not seem so expensive, as to protect yourself against fraud.
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May 22, 2008
Online Safety at a Low Price
By admin
Maybe you have seen him on TV, showing his own real Social Security ID (with no remorse or fear at all). His name is Todd Davis and he is the CEO of Life Lock, a company that is growing slowly but firmly, at the market of identity protection against online fraud.
Online fraud - as we have talked a lot before - is a real "industry" that cost the consumers millions of dollars year after year, despite the efforts of the police and Governments. Electronic felonies, specifically online scams are far more common today that ten years ago, and the measures of protection, even though easy, are by far very unknown by the common people.
Lifelock offers the reasonable level of protection against fraud and scams. What impresses me is how Davis just publishes everywhere his SS Id, there is not a better proof of concept than that. And the lifelock reviews by consumers are also positive, in that sense.
The mechanism behind is fairly simple and has nothing to do with the arcane, obscure methods that i have heard of beforewards. Rather, it consists basically in raising fraud alerts through the main credit card merchandisers. And asking the credit card emisors to not include the customer in their pre approved cardholders’ list. Nothing that one could not ever do. But, it is something that i would not definitely do, for the sake of the time to be consumed.
For 10 bucks per month, the customer can feel secure and rest peacefully, knowing that there is no way that his identity be "cloned" with the unlawful purpose of scamming money out.
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May 21, 2008
How many cents do you waste
By admin
An old British saying states: "Take care of the pennies, that the pounds will take care of themselves". In real life, the facts support that statement. All about savings, isn’t it?
Unfortunately, most of US tend to dismiss the value of those coins that seem to weigh too much inside our packet as to pay much attention to them. Nevertheless, we should care as is the sum of the cents what adds up to the dollar.
How many cents do you waste on a daily basis?
I had not taken much account of the cents - i must admit - until one day i did not have any money at all, and start looking for some bucks through my clothes and boxes.
I found about 100 bucks amongst cents and small bills; ok, it was not a fortune, but it surely bought a coffee and a decent dinner. And after all, it was much better to have it available than just wandering over there.
Afterwards, i decided to go on with an experiment to trace the path of the cents. The results were amazing. Not that it would apply to every case, but you will have to find out for yourself. If you dare to.
Tracing the Path of the Cents
After 2 weeks taking care of the cents - as crazy as it might sound - i was able to conclude the following:
- Roughly, 2% of my earnings are changed into cents and small money, on a daily basis. That is, 2 dollars out of every 100 USD in my budget pass through that state.
- Most of the time i was not aware of the coins and used 20, 50 and 100 bills to pay for the small daily purchases.
- Even though i used my credit card profusely, the coins were still there and i still needed paper money.
- Most of the money in coins tends to disappear in the "Bermuda Triangle". If not taken care after, coins and change are easily lost.
- A single person - in my case - can lose about 0.5% of his yearly earnings due to not taking care of the coins and small bills.
Assuming that my total yearly earnings were about 60000, it would represent an estimate of 300 USD per year. After only 20 years, it would be 6000 USD of loss, maybe more.
Are you ready to take care of the pennies?
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May 20, 2008
Depressive Behaviour or with the sight so clouded
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As to begin i have to accept that i - in no means - a psychologist, therapist or the like. But, i have an opinion and a weblog, and that uses to produce an article or post. Such is the case.
After the first disclaimer, i have to admit that it has been years since i passed through the last depressive period, in which - i will also have to admit, sincerely - i almost committed suicide. Long story, a grayish one.
Depression is one of the diseases of the modern life, commonly associated to the paradox of progress. The paradox states that no wonder how much material progress the societies achieve, its members might well fall into depression and unhappiness.
All of that, due to the fact that realization and success are not exactly gotten as soon as the fairy of wealth knocks at the door. In fact, as trembling as it might sound: happiness is on the road to success. But, not at the end, not at the beginning, not in the middle. It is all through the path.
Being less philosophical, the stuff behind depression is the feeling of incompleteness; many people who suffer from depression usually say that they feel "empty". It is because their life has no objectives, no clear goals to be scored, no mountain peek worth the effort of climbing up to the top.
The Profile of the Depressive Person
Opposite to the popular belief, many of the depressive people out there are not poor ones with lots of financial trouble, it would be surprising to note that many apparently successful professionals and businessmen are easy pray of depression. Why?
I believe that it is due to a low comprehension of success and a poor balance of life matters. Real success is not related to economic wealth, as much as it is the enrichment of the life as a whole. Successful careerist, successful employee, successful businessman is also a successful father, successful mother, successful son, successful gardener, successful pet owner. Well, it is in the art of excellence, where the complete human being finds the success, in the solace of the deep understanding of a basic fact of life: achieving has to be accompanied of enjoying, so live to love and love to live, love what you do and you will be doing what you love.
Walking with the Sight so clouded
Why would anyone feel depressed? For the utopic, ever happy human being, who has never fell into the dark pit of the depression, all the thing might look foolish. If analyzed by a different entity, the depressive behaviour is something that has nothing to do with the plain logic.
We feel depressed because we cannot see clearly what is beyond the cloud that we put ourselves in front of us. That’s all. We get into depression every now and then, just because we lose focus and the issues of life seem to outgrow our natural tolerance. For some persons, the mistake is that depression quits being a transitive state of the emotions, to become an usual behaviour, a sine qua non condition.
The depressive individual walks his path down with his/her sight totally cluttered by the clouds of the uncertainty, low self esteem and apparent inability to react to the adverse stimuli that life throws at his/her way.
Release your Potential, Get Rid of Depression
Filling our life with objectives, passion and love is - maybe - the best and only cure to the problem of depression. Take a look at the sunny day, raise your sight to the level of the clean blue sky, have the deepest breath ever and say to yourself that the nightmare is over. You have the power to change your life in whatever means you may ever think of. If you can, will you?
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May 17, 2008
Smart Shopping Principles (I): Beware of the Long Sales Pages
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Maybe this might bother a few Internet Marketers, but it is real: many products are sold via an overrated value marketing. In plain English, it is the image of the product what sells and not the real value or the benefits that it might give to the consumer.
A few days ago I was reading one of my favorites weblogs - Daily Blog Tips - and found an article very interesting which (in the comments section) exposed how messy and annoying some internauts find the well known long sales pages. The content helped to raise my attention over such pages and seduced into doing my own investigations.
What Most of the Long Sales Pages have in common
As a result of long weekend afternoons reading many long sales pages, what i found is that all of such pages have some clear features in common. Before listing the main common features, i would like to state clearly and in an uppercased fashion: I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST INTERNET MARKETING.
1. Long Sales Pages claim that the product they sell is the best of the market.
2. They also claim that it is a lifetime opportunity.
3. They publish lots of comments and testimonials of happy customers.
4. They use the word MUST a lot all over the text.
5. There is no long sales page with less than 1000 words.
6. In general, the template seems to be the same,looking like a commercial spot all over the page.
7. Most of those pages state that there is a limit in the quantity of the product or that there is deadline to obtain the product, afterwards, it will not be available, at least not at the same promotional price.
8. There is no clear TOS or a link to it, so as to be aware of the limitations of the product offered.
9. Such pages lack a lot of information on the product itself, if compared to the apparent benefits heavily promoted.
10. Many of such pages are hosted in domains with less than 1 months of life. Bad, really bad.
11. Many of such pages do not provide a phone number as to make contact.
12. The feeling that such kind of pages produce is that of someone that is desperate to sell and tries to induce an urge in the visitor to make a quick purchase.
Not that I am all against the Internet marketing at all, but honestly, such pages raise my SCAM alert system whenever and wherever i read them (by chance).
How To Make an Objective Evaluation of the Product offered through a Long Sales Pages
It might be interesting - specially for the e-Marketers - to know that - at least, in my case - the pictures of the products are the most impressive section of the sales pages. As the old ones used to say: "An image is better than 1000 words".
What i would recommend - in general - to make a wise purchase is to follow the intuition, at first. Most of the people develop a sense that helps to recognize a scam, and it would serve to quit the page - and making no purchase at all. Nevertheless, there are some easy tips to evaluate the product in an accurate fashion.
1. Forget about the words "best", "must" and the like.
If somebody is prone to sell something, it will have to wait until you decide, no matter what. The world will not end by tomorrow or the next week.
2. Forget about the quotas and the false exclusivity offered.
Try to figure out this, you have a special product, that you will offer only to 100 persons. Would you sell it for a few buckets and spend lots of money trying to reach millions of visitors? Non-sense, isn’t it?
3. Focus on the benefits that you expect to obtain.
Do not forget what you were looking for, just before you entered the page and saw all those shiny, happy people cheer and celebrate their success after purchasing the product. If it is not what you need, say Goodbye!
4. Check the price of the product with other providers - use the information of the Shopping Review Portals.
Hell, yeah! I paid the price of novelty once that i needed a specialized project planning ebook. I googled and found a long sales pages with a "lifetime", "unique", "exclusive" opportunity that i MUST take, because it was the BEST price EVER for such an ebook PLUS two more ebooks as a PROMOTIONAL GIFT. After making the purchase, i found that i paid or the price of the 3 ebooks and a bit more. But, it was my fault, because there are lots of shopping review portals everywhere, where the customer can listen to the opinion of the other customers that have previously acquire the product that you are looking for.
5. Read carefully even the sentences in the tiniest font.
Some marketers put the worst of the product in Lucida 4px font, exactly where no one cares to take a look. There are some pages which offer online services extremely cheap and once you put your credit card info, you make the mistake of not checking carefully. A few months later you become aware of all the money that has been charged against your credit card via monthly SUBSCRIPTIONS. Please, be aware.
6. Obtain ALL the specifications of the product before buying.
Ok, there is a dozen of happy customers, so what? Even if the product is what it states, it might also well be what it does not state. That is, it may have worked for those people, but, will it be what you need?
7. Make a phone call.
Whenever I see a long sales pages, the first thing i do is to obtain the contact information. It "MUST" be somewhere in the page or i press the "X" button at the right of the internet browser. If the page provides a phone number, do not hesitate to make a call, even if you believe is silly just for the sake of listening to a human voice; there are strong chances that the company will be responsive.
8. Russia and some other countries are not good places to make online purchases.
Maybe some people ignore that lots of the scammers host their sites in Russia. Why? Just because the scammers exploit the advantage of being immune to the western system of Justice. Be aware and check the whois of the page (http://www.whois.org) and if it is hosted in an unsafe country, forget about it.
9. PayPal is a safe channel - instead of the credit card, but…
Even though paypal is a safer way to buy online, it is also extremely difficult to claim for a refund via PayPal.
10. Check if the Page or the Company has a Safe Online Salers Certifications.
Better Bureau Business is the best known certification authority in the field of ecommerce in the US. There is also one in the United Kingdom and many others all over the world. Please, check those portals by yourself and do not trust what you see on the sales page. Because, if the page or the company is enlisted by a Certification Authority, the probability that they are talking seriously about the products offered is very high.
11. Google, Yahoo, Ask or MSN the product for a scam alert.
In plain words, open your favorite search engine (may it be google, yahoo or the one you like) and put in the search box the name of the product/company or the web address of the long sales page together with the word SCAM. For example, you get to visit http://www.l0ngs4lesp4age.com, where they offer the best remedy for allergy alergianatte 2000. Open google and search: "www.l0ngs4lesp4age.com SCAM" or "allergianatte SCAM". In general, the real reviews that you will find in the results list weight much more than the testimonials in the long sales page.
12. Follow your instincts, cut the weed and be smart.
If you had to make an excerpt of the long sales page it would be no longer than 80 words. Believe me: cut the weed, you don’t need it. And if you feel that the site is unsafe, do not make a purchase.
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May 17, 2008
Live Tv, broadcasting yourself alive
By admin
One of the dreams of a lifespan is to have my own show on Tv. Now, with the advent of the Internet and specially the internet TV, it is more than simply easy to broadcast a live video through services like BlogTv.
It is simple, though it has a few basic rules, the most general no nudity, no harassment and of course, copyright awareness. The service works very much like a live chat, where the user has to get a webcam and then start broadcasting a show. Some of the people there are good amateurs, some are very novice. But, if appearing in front of a camera and showing yourself to the public is what you want, BlogTv may be fine.
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May 15, 2008
Leadership, Professional growth and the right kind of education
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Practical thinking should a compulsory subject in the pensa of every career all over the world. Just joking! But, when one considers how difficult is to find a young professional with a developed practical sense, the idea does not seem to be so absurd as it might sound.
Consider this: most of the highly successful professionals in all of the fields of the human activity achieve high success when his/her abilities to communicate and find practical solutions start to increase. In some persons, practical thinking and communication skills are almost natural, but one should not rely on genetics to reach success. Not at all.
The Leadership Thing: What is the leader, just to start.
As my boss used to tell me: the leader is someone who is capable of tracing the path for everyone, getting the balance of the group and allow (and encourage that) that every member of the team throws the best of his/her potential. I would add to the definition that the leader is like the brain that connects the actions of the fingers with the perceptions of the nose. Ugly example, i know.
And to become a leader - if you are not a natural born one - there is a long way up the stairs. First, practical thinking must be put in the basket. Then, increased awareness of the impact of the communications and the way that the "form" influences the final results of the human interactions.
Finally, a comprehension of the persons and a high intuition is compulsory to become a leader. Related to the ability to listen carefully and fill in the gaps of the messages that the persons send to us. Being the messages not only in words, but in diverse expressions such as gestures. A leader must be able to interpret even the apparently insignificant signs of the persons.
And the leader has to be able to accept responsibilities, and delegate functions. Essential as the 1+1=2 formula, the leader is the head of the team, and his main function is to coordinate the actions of the team, as if of the human body and the brain were we talking about.
Is the Leader born or can become?
One of the philosophical questions of life, with a practical answer: the leader can be born to be and not be it, or not be born but become one.
As with genetics in general, there is a tendency to become a leader in a reduced segment of the population, but it has to be complemented with the right environment and formation to become one. Or else, the leader will not show up ever.
And, if the genetics is not favorable, then environment can influence. The same effect that can be gotten when the IQ is not so high, but the constant effort replaces the apparent disability. Ask Newton about it.
What i really mean is that with the right attitude and the right kind of education, the leadership skills - though low at the beginning - can be further increased and throw as a result a well-formed leader (which might have some advantages over the natural born one).
How to Increase the Leadership Skills by means of education?
Again, increase your practical thinking, your abilities to communicate and the fast response to throw practical solutions. That is the part that the formal education can help you to boost.
How? Easier to put it as an example, rather than explaining it. Choose the appropriate courses, f.i, take language courses where grammar and orthography are taught, just to begin. Then, enlist into a seminar of commercial writing. A good lecture about the power of positive thinking and maybe another text about the uses of logic and methodology to solve practical real life problems.
But, even more important is that you put your efforts in the self-development of good habits of productivity and start self-criticizing. Track your results (on an Excel worksheet or a piece of paper, whatever) and start climbing up the ladder.
You have to keep in mind that there is a limit in the professional growth of the individual, where the leadership skills are absolutely required and - by no means - should you be unprepared to step into.
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May 15, 2008
Workaholism and The exact dose of work
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Workaholics are by definition: people addicted to work. All over my life, i just have had one period where the excessive work absorbed my whole interest and time. I must emphasize before going on, a workaholic person is someone with a problem.
How do you recognize if you are a workaholic?
I might try to list the typical symptoms of the workaholism, but instead I will put you under test, as follows.
1. Do you work between 50 to 70 hours per week (if you work more than that, please quit this test; you must be sick!)?
2. Do you usually work at home after office time?
3. Do you work on weekends?
4. Did you go on vacation last year?
5. Do you sleep well (about 6 to 9 hours per day)?
6. Do you know what the members of your family have done by yesterday?
7. Have you ever thought of yourself as irreplaceable for the company?
If you answer Yes to any of these questions, you are in the high risk of becoming an alcoholic. Then, if you scored between 2 to 4 answers, take a break, relax and organize your life: it is only a job, my dear friend! If you replied Yes to more than 5, hey, Dude! Look for professional help; I mean you really, really need it.
The Problems of Workaholism for the Company
Although the popular belief supports the myth of the proactive worker, meaning by proactive someone who lives for the work; the facts are clear. And the reality is something that cannot be denied anyway.
The main problem of the workaholic is exactly the main measure of the value of the activities of every human being: efficiency. As the time goes by, the excessive load of work - originally taken with much proactivity - tends to slow down the abilities of the worker.
In plain English, the employee gets tired and burns down. And being so tired, a simple operation requires much more effort than usual. All of that translates into reduced productivity and a marked tendency to commit mistakes.
What follows is that the tasks taken by the workaholic employee are more expensive than if it would be achieved by someone who has a healthy, regular work timeframe.
Regarding the tendency to commit more mistakes, it also boosts the risk meter, specially for the workers in charge of delicate or potentially dangerous tasks; e.g. air traffic controllers.
The Problems of Workaholism for the Family
Unfortunately, the workaholic is someone who brings his/her job home. And that is something extremely complicated for the other members of the family.
It is common that the workaholic tends to develop a neurotic behaviour, showing irritated almost all of the time. It is also noteworthy that the communication skills of the person under the addiction reduce significantly. That is, a breach is opened between the subject and his/her family. It is not so uncommon that the workaholic ends up with a divorce, or at least a temporary separation.
The Problems of Workaholism for the Workaholic
The workaholic - as every person that suffers from an addiction - denies (to him/herself) firmly that he/she has a problem at all. For the workaholic, the problem is the boss or the wife, or the children. He/she just likes to work and everybody should be proud of it.
What the workaholic does not take into account is that the life is unique, and the work is JUST a part of it. As the time goes by, the heavy weight workaholic is an easy pray of physical and emotional diseases and disorders. The lack of physical exercise and the stress produces a high tendency to obesity and coronary diseases. The lack of a real life produces a tendency to depression and neurotic behaviour.
At last, the workaholic might well die at the battle field, and nobody will give a penny for all of his/her efforts. Basically, because nobody asks so much from anyone under normal conditions.
The Exact Dose of Work
As anything in this simple - yet so complicated - life, the work is important, beneficial, necessary and in the correct measure: desirable. I just can not imagine what my life would be like, without my regular dose of work. But, and also as anything in this life, all of the excesses are bad in nature, and with the work, there is not an exception, precisely.
There is no secret technique to find the balance between wok and the rest of activities of the life. As everything, it is just a matter of smart planning, organization and targeted focus. if there were to be a secret, it would be: assigning enough time to reach the whole potential at work, yielding the highest productivity possible.
How many hours per day is it?
The answer is : how many would you need? If you reach the highest potential in 6 hours of intense work, then 6 hours is ok. If you need 10 hours to yield the best of you - without affecting the rest of your activities - it is fine.
As a rule of thumb, someone who stays at work - working - for more than 10 hours daily and on a regular basis does have a problem. It might well be that he/she is not qualified for the job or there is a procrastination problem. It might also be a problem of the excessive goals that the person has set for him/herself.
The benefits of working in a productive way out of Workaholism
Being realistic, all of us have limitations in one sense or the other. And we have to be aware of the limitations, in order to exploit our capabilities in the best way.
When the exact dose of work is applied to our laboral life, in a productive way, the best of us is put into action in favor of the company. As a result, there is a synergy between our work, our results, the benefits for the company, the earnings for both parts, the professional growth and the personal satisfaction. All of that can just be translated into a happier, successful, healthier, wealthier and balanced life.
There is no secret at that!
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May 13, 2008
Reviewing a site to obtain essays
By admin
Overnight Essay is a service that seems to be dedicated to the procrastinator student. Just kidding. But, in fact it is a place where an urgent homework can be achieved in just hours with quality content - that is they offer Persuasive essay editing and in a timely manner.
As many students know, making a research paper is not exactly easy and can take a lot of time. The same thing about theses and all thesis related work.
The options of payment are as usual the credit cards or Paypal, Money Gold, Wire Transfer, etc; if you rather. What is important is the speed at which they communicate, ready and online 24×7. And if you have doubts, you can check the Thesis examples and Research paper guide. What the site might publish is a list of satisfied customers - unless they can be identified by their professors.
Anyway, i would recommend the use of Overnight Essay as a starting point or to compliment your own essay.
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May 11, 2008
Distractions as Triggers of Procrastination
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Many years ago, i used to study with a group of classmates on a weekly basis. We were only 4 or 5 regulars and 1 or 2 guests at every session and although at the beginning it seemed like a good idea, the results at the short term were annoying.
After the first exams with an overall score under 75% of achievement, we decided to analyze what was going wrong with the group. It could not be a matter of the frequency, though it would be almost impossible and very impractical to meet together every day.
After the deliberation among the members, we came to a simple conclusion: we were having a few distractions that were breaking the concentration. The main one was the radio, we always had it turned on during the study sessions and every now and then it used to gain the focus of the group, instead of the class material.
A term after, the results were amazing, with the whole group obtaining high scores in the exams. And, guess what? We were able to reduce the frequency of the session to only one every two weeks.
Since that life lesson, i have always taken into account the power that concentration and focus provides and the gains in terms of productivity as a result of turning off the distractions.
What is a distraction?
It is anything that makes you lose concentration or time on the desirable object of attention. Television, Radio, Games, Chat, Mobile Phone, SMS and many other things act powerfully to divert your attention and substract productivity.
Technically, even an apparently productive activity when not correctly scheduled - that is, being done in the inappropriate time of day - can become a distraction.
If you have set your goals for the day, and work intensely to reach them, anything that can set you apart from your aim is a distraction. And the result of letting the distractions do their work is simply procrastination.
Why is the procrastination so harmful to us?
Just because the procrastination throws the activities close or after the deadlines. If you have a project going on, then there is a schedule to be completed daily, and usually you will have more than enough time to fulfill
But, when procrastination comes into the scene, the delays and excuses will come together with it. It is easy to portrait the typical case of the desk workman, having lots of papers to be processed, and with the appearance of someone who always has something to do. Let me tell you something, at least 80% of the time, you are watching a Major League Procrastinator.
Procrastination destroys our real free time, as the procrastinator always - i said always - has a deficit of time. And the family and friends are on the pay off side. As a result, the procrastinator always seems tired and annoyed. It is also common that the procrastinator tends to feel that his/her job does not give them enough satisfaction and that the chances to be promoted has been unfair for them.
Finally, the procrastination is an enemy of productivity and as a result, a nemesis of success and happiness. As every bad habit, procrastination can be controlled and one of the easiest steps is to put the distractions away at once.
Keeping the Distractions Away from You
I won´t write a 5-tips-to-like section, as there are so many distractions out there that any list - every one of them - that could be produced, would lack a solution to more than half of the probable distractions ever to be accounted into.
What i would suggest - in general - is that you let be honest with yourself and produce a list (on paper or the computer) of whatever the like is making you lose the concentration and waste time.
The next step is to begin turning off the distractions as long as you need time to concentrate and behave productively. That is, put the mobile phone in low volume, update your MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk (or the like) to Absent, turn off the radio, tv, game console, mobile phone and stay alert and focused on what you need to complete.
The pay off for turning off the distractions is very high and you will find yourself with more spare time that can be INVESTED with your family. Forget about expending time with the family, start to be productive and INVEST it. But, that is the main topic of another post.
When a Distraction is not a Distraction Anymore?
It happens when you use your free time in an appropriate manner. Let me put it this way: i am on friday night and decided not to go out. Then MSN or Google Talk is ideal to establish contact with the beloved ones that live far away from me.
In the case of the mobile phone, if you need to make contact with the software provider during work time, to solve a problem, then it is not a distraction as much as a tool of productivity.
That is why i am totally opposed to ban the use of mobile phone, chat and other tools. Just because a tool can be used in an inappropriate fashion, you do not have to ban the use of it. The best solution is to make the employees be aware of the benefits of productivity and the habits of excellence.
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