Posted on April 30th, 2009 by Peggy Duncan
President Obama had a mountain of issues to deal with in his first 100 days, and not having his BlackBerry helped him stay focused. I’m hoping that he doesn’t get sucked back in to his BlackBerry addiction.
It’s old news that President Barack Obama was addicted to his BlackBerry. Now that he’s had to live without [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2009 by Peggy Duncan
I was recently interviewed by a national magazine and the reporter asked me about some of the must-have equipment I use to run my solo enterprise. Here is what I listed.
Feature-rich telephone. You might think that finding the perfect desk phone is easy, but it wasn’t for me. I finally found everything I needed in [...]
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Posted on April 12th, 2009 by Peggy Duncan
One of the exercises I conduct in my time management training involves having the attendees determine how much free time they have after doing all the things they absolutely have to do. I came up with a brilliant idea (at least I think it was brilliant) and had this time log coded as a Flash [...]
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Posted on April 11th, 2009 by Peggy Duncan
I received a PDF and needed to change it to a graphic. This way, I’d have more flexibility when I needed to insert it in various documents. I’m using an older version of Adobe Acrobat (7.0) and although I saw the option to File, Save As, jpeg, it didn’t work for me.
Here is what I [...]
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Posted on April 9th, 2009 by Peggy Duncan
Use your brain for thinking; not for remembering
- Peggy Duncan
As you go through the day acknowledging due dates or making commitments and promises, always ask yourself: “How am I going to remember this?” Then put some type of external cues in place that will trigger the action.
You probably already use a to do list, tickler [...]
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Posted on April 5th, 2009 by Peggy Duncan
I presented my shameless self-promotion seminar for SCORE Chicago recently. The standing-room-only crowd of small business owners was totally into it. Lots of great questions and comments. Jo Anne Cano, Vice President of A.J. Smith Federal Savings Bank, said: “Thank you so much. Your presentation on Tuesday at SCORE was awesome. It gave me lots [...]
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