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Tasks lists can be super helpful for creative firms or creative departments (e.g. art departments, interactive agencies, internal marketing or communications) to get more done, manage processes better and to get better information on their work (including tracking billable hours). They can also kill well meaning attempts at implementing project management. People usually get tripped up by making task lists overly detailed, trying to map every single step in a process.

This is a guest post from Bill Provenzano who is a 20?year veteran commodity trader of the CME. He is also the founder of Upside Breakout , a biblically based coaching and mentoring program for Christian stock and commodity traders. Find out more at ChristianTradingCoach.com . Trading Traps I couldn’t help but think today about the devastation that the housing crisis has brought upon our economy. As I gave it more thought, I realized that a Trading Trap that many traders fall into was one of the issues at the core of the housing bubble.

“Structure is now the big fetish for Tai Chi and other internal training. But that’s taking the finger for the moon because any structure is tension, while the whole point of the training is to shed tension and relax. It’s true that in the early stages, a few straight-forward postural basics are used to prime the pump and set the stage. But those structural basics are a form of (controlled) tension, so even that is playing with fire.

An excellent example of how to be proactive when you drop the ball is an incident in which an Enterprise Rent-A-Car, located in Massachusetts, didn’t have a customer’s reservation or vehicle available. Their customer service representative could have been skeptical that the reservation was never made by the customer; but instead apologized profusely and called nearby branches until they found the vehicle this customer needed. The service recovery mission didn’t stop there.

Collectors, yes, collectors. That is what we all are when we start out with Getting Things Done (GTD) or any other productivity method. We collect everything around us and put it on our task, project or someday/maybe list. And this is not a bad thing, but it is just the beginning. Unfortunately many of us just stop at this stage.

Author : Melanie Benson Strick What do Donald Trump, Oprah, Richard Branson and I have in common? Well I may not quite be at the billionaire level yet but what we do all have in common is we are all entrepreneurs who get things done in record time Consider this: Over 80% of the entrepreneurs I mentor have great ideas with less than stellar results Many struggle to get to the six figure mark simply due to a perceived lack of time, resources or energy to get the right strategies in place to grow their results So what is it that the billionaires know about getting things done fast that you might be missing?

Tools for Getting Things Done A series of tools that help automate the process of Getting Things Done tags : gtd , productivity , tool Say Hello To Version Three Of My Weekly Planner A template that helps to distribute tasks over the week tags : productivity , planning , timeboxing Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

Is a work at home business better than a work at home job? You bet. Hands down. But each option has pros and cons, and it may be that for right now you’re just not ready to start a work at home business. Its a big committment. That’s OK. But if you’re dedicated, smart and willing to work harder than most, settling for a work at home job could be selling yourself short.
2 Best Reasons To Start a Work At Home Business
1) Business owners build equity in their business.

(Written by Theresa Tan, Director of WMD and former Senior Editor of Vanilla Magazine) The Molly Lee Appeal was one of those things that was “meant to be”. I’ll be honest — after 5 years of Women Make A Difference (WMD), I was ready to take a break. Not that WMD had been doing a lot but the admin totally felled me. I was sick of counting T-shirts, making deliveries (so much that I owed one poor supporter a pink T-shirt for TWO YEARS), keeping accounts (more like losing them).

Lying gits.When something says “ceilidh”, which is, y’know, a Gaelic word, it kind of gives the impression to foolish consumers of Saturday evening social entertainment that it’s going to have something to do with Irish music, or at least Scottish.No such luck: the dancing on offer was generic rustic/country/barn dancing, about as Irish as Boutros-Boutros Ghali.[not Irish, yesterday.]That’s not to say I had a bad evening – in fact it was a very good one, with Paula, her friends C, N & T, and