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Digg it UP - Stop Wasting Time! 10 Terrific Time - Savers
Before I even get into how to write the body of the article, I want you to think about what is going to be the subject matter of the article?It is going to be exactly what the title is! Nothing more, nothing less! Why? Because when they clicked into your article, they wanted some specific information – they wanted to learn about exactly what the article title suggested, nothing more, nothing less. If they wanted something different, they would not have clicked on your article in the article directory. If the product was at all popular, there would have been probably many more articles about the product and many other different aspects of the product. If they had wanted to know about all the other things about that product, they would have clicked on one of the other articles, not yours.So we have to assume that if they clicked on and are reading your article, they want to learn about exactly what the article title tells them.So that is what you have to do – write the article about whatever it is the title indicates.How Many Words Should Your Article Be?I like to write short articles – as short as the article d
--> 6. Learn how to delegate. If you’re one of those “If-you-want-something-done-right, do-it-yourself” kind of gals, well… get over it! Like any new skill, accepting help can take time to learn. But once you do it, you’ll be surprised at how good it feels to cede control to others. Therefore, instead of trying to do it all, superhero-style, ask for help. If you’re the one in your household who usually cooks and serves dinner, clears the table and then washes up afterwards, try this: Have your kids or spouse set the table, or chop and peel vegetables. Have them clear, wash up and take the garbage out. Make your requests known, and your expectations clear. Once you’re in the habit of asking others to pitch in, you’ll be amazed at how much more you can accomplish (or, if you feel like, indulge in some well deserved time to yourself). Remember, if you don’t ask, you don’t get.
--> 7. Get more sleep. As counterintuitive as this may sound, getting more shut-eye actually allows a person to enjoy more waking hours in a day. The reason is simple: people who don’t get enough sleep at night tend to feel cranky, fuzzy, unmotivated
We often speak to ourselves either by thinking out loud or simply by acknowledging our thoughts. Sometimes we say to ourselves simple things like plans ahead such as our thoughts about other people, places etc. We also say stuff about ourselves. Some examples of this are “I love my own hair” to “I have ugly eyes.” The second example mentioned is also known as negative self talk and should be avoided at all costs. When you constantly repeat negative things about yourself it has an impact on your self esteem. It does not matter if you say it aloud in public or just when you are by yourself, it still has the same negative impact on your confidence.The more you repeat phrases the more your mind will start to believe it as a fact. Therefore, if you are constantly calling yourself a failure then you are going to become a failure. When people are on a negative state of mind they barely try to do anything to change their situation. They figure why even bother trying if I am going to fail anyway?Now that you are aware of the way that negative self talk affects your confidence make an honest attempt to change your behavior and treat yourself with
The problem is, with 24 hours in a day, eight or more of which are spent in your pajamas, it’s possible – no, make that probable – that you’re not accomplishing as much as you’d like. Chances are, you feel as if there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done.
But 24 hours is actually a lot of time. The reason why it doesn’t feel like much is that, quite simply, a huge amount of this time is wasted. Squandered, pilfered and frittered away. And before you know it – Poof! – the day is over. Your bed is still unmade; your errands are still undone; your emails are still unanswered, and you’re left there wondering, “Where did the time go?”
The good news is, help is on the way. Below, you’ll find 10 ways to grab your time back, before it slips through your fingers once again (and again, and again)…
--> 1. Make a list, and check it twice. Buy bread. Replace the heels on your favorite pumps. Fill up the gas tank. Get a mammogram… the list seems endless. How can a person possibly remember all this stuff long enough to actually accomplish it? Simple: Write it down.
Most time-efficiency experts agree: In order to keep on top of things, you need to have a clear, detailed to-do list, to help manage your tasks and declutter your brain. Think about it: If you write things down, each task that needs to be accomplished is no longer a nagging thought in the back of your mind, competing for your attention and wasting your time. Instead, it’s right there in black and white, waiting to be taken care of. If you’re a techie type, check out MyLife Organized, a nifty task-management software program that helps you to prioritize your work and personal projects. For Windows and PocketPC; $46 at www.mylifeorganized.net. Later, if you feel like rewarding yourself for a job well done, go for it. You deserve it!
--> 2. Resist the urge to hit the snooze button. Sure, puttering around the house in your PJs is awfully nice, but blowing the most valuable part of the day, the early-morning hours, is more than a waste of time: It’s counterproductive. Studies have shown that the early-morning hours are, in fact, the most productive hours of the entire day. If you start your around-the-house activities or get to the office a half an hour earlier, say, you’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish. (And don’t forget to tackle your highest-priority projects first, when your brain is at its sharpest.)
--> 3. Multi-tisket, multitask it... Trying to juggle 10 balls at once is hard, because, ultimately, you’re bound to drop one or two (or all of them!) at any given moment. At the same time, who says you can’t juggle two, or even three if you feel like it? There’s nothing wrong with chatting on the phone with a girlfriend while pasting photos into a scrapbook or photo album, for instance. Or how about folding laundry, ironing or walking on the treadmill while listening to a book-on-tape or the news on your iPod? As long as you’re not trying to accomplish something that requires your concentrated or undivided attention (i.e., writing your dissertation; reading War and Peace; chopping wood), you should be able to handle it.
--> 4. Put yourself on a schedule. You know the saying, “If you want something done, give it to the busiest person you know”? Well, there’s a reason for that. Most busy people are on a tight schedule. They know that they have a specific amount of time to get something done, so they don’t dilly-dally or waste time. They buckle down and do what needs to be done. If you know that you have only two hours to accomplish a certain task, for instance, you’re more likely to focus on the task at hand and get it done in a speedy, time-efficient manner. In fact, the more time you have to do something, the longer you’re likely to spend doing it (read: all day!) If you’d like to see where your time’s really going, check out TaskCapture, a software program that monitors how long you spend working on files. For Windows and Mac; $79 at www.captureworks.com/taskcapture. Still not sure? Download a free, 15-day demo.
--> 5. Don’t be a Martha! With so much going on – emails to answer; calls to make; lunches to pack; clothes to launder; gifts to buy; meetings to attend – keeping your head above water can feel like a Herculean task. One way to handle this stressed-out, overwhelmed feeling is to focus on the big picture and cut yourself some serious slack. For instance, if you need to bake 24 cupcakes for your daughter’s kindergarten class, don’t worry about decorating each one with a perfect little buttercream rosette. You’re not Martha Stewart! The cupcakes will taste just as yummy rosette-free, and no one will notice the difference. The less pressure you place on yourself, the more time you’ll have to stop and smell the roses (or the cupcakes, as the case may be…).
--> 6. Learn how to delegate. If you’re one of those “If-you-want-something-done-right, do-it-yourself” kind of gals, well… get over it! Like any new skill, accepting help can take time to learn. But once you do it, you’ll be surprised at how good it feels to cede control to others. Therefore, instead of trying to do it all, superhero-style, ask for help. If you’re the one in your household who usually cooks and serves dinner, clears the table and then washes up afterwards, try this: Have your kids or spouse set the table, or chop and peel vegetables. Have them clear, wash up and take the garbage out. Make your requests known, and your expectations clear. Once you’re in the habit of asking others to pitch in, you’ll be amazed at how much more you can accomplish (or, if you feel like, indulge in some well deserved time to yourself). Remember, if you don’t ask, you don’t get.
--> 7. Get more sleep. As counterintuitive as this may sound, getting more shut-eye actually allows a person to enjoy more waking hours in a day. The reason is simple: people who don’t get enough sleep at night tend to feel cranky, fuzzy, unmotivated a
Pair programming: People either love it or hate it.The concept of pair programming first became popular thanks to “extreme programming” or XP—a set of practices that supposedly allows companies to develop software in a more efficient, more “agile” manner. Proponents of XP claim that it allows programmers to respond to changing or ambiguous software requirements without sacrificing quality. Skeptics disagree, arguing that these alleged benefits are either illusory or exaggerated.XP proponents argue that two programming heads are better than one—that two software developers working together will tend to produce better, more reliable and more maintainable than a single programmer working alone. This practice is known as pair programming, and at first glance, it sounds like a great idea. Personally though, I think that it smacks of a “one size fits all” mentality. That is, it assumes that two programmers working in concert will indeed be more efficient and that they will produce better results. I think there is good reason to believe otherwise.The much vaunted Williams studyXP fans typically point to an infamo
Most time-efficiency experts agree: In order to keep on top of things, you need to have a clear, detailed to-do list, to help manage your tasks and declutter your brain. Think about it: If you write things down, each task that needs to be accomplished is no longer a nagging thought in the back of your mind, competing for your attention and wasting your time. Instead, it’s right there in black and white, waiting to be taken care of. If you’re a techie type, check out MyLife Organized, a nifty task-management software program that helps you to prioritize your work and personal projects. For Windows and PocketPC; $46 at www.mylifeorganized.net. Later, if you feel like rewarding yourself for a job well done, go for it. You deserve it!
--> 2. Resist the urge to hit the snooze button. Sure, puttering around the house in your PJs is awfully nice, but blowing the most valuable part of the day, the early-morning hours, is more than a waste of time: It’s counterproductive. Studies have shown that the early-morning hours are, in fact, the most productive hours of the entire day. If you start your around-the-house activities or get to the office a half an hour earlier, say, you’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish. (And don’t forget to tackle your highest-priority projects first, when your brain is at its sharpest.)
--> 3. Multi-tisket, multitask it... Trying to juggle 10 balls at once is hard, because, ultimately, you’re bound to drop one or two (or all of them!) at any given moment. At the same time, who says you can’t juggle two, or even three if you feel like it? There’s nothing wrong with chatting on the phone with a girlfriend while pasting photos into a scrapbook or photo album, for instance. Or how about folding laundry, ironing or walking on the treadmill while listening to a book-on-tape or the news on your iPod? As long as you’re not trying to accomplish something that requires your concentrated or undivided attention (i.e., writing your dissertation; reading War and Peace; chopping wood), you should be able to handle it.
--> 4. Put yourself on a schedule. You know the saying, “If you want something done, give it to the busiest person you know”? Well, there’s a reason for that. Most busy people are on a tight schedule. They know that they have a specific amount of time to get something done, so they don’t dilly-dally or waste time. They buckle down and do what needs to be done. If you know that you have only two hours to accomplish a certain task, for instance, you’re more likely to focus on the task at hand and get it done in a speedy, time-efficient manner. In fact, the more time you have to do something, the longer you’re likely to spend doing it (read: all day!) If you’d like to see where your time’s really going, check out TaskCapture, a software program that monitors how long you spend working on files. For Windows and Mac; $79 at www.captureworks.com/taskcapture. Still not sure? Download a free, 15-day demo.
--> 5. Don’t be a Martha! With so much going on – emails to answer; calls to make; lunches to pack; clothes to launder; gifts to buy; meetings to attend – keeping your head above water can feel like a Herculean task. One way to handle this stressed-out, overwhelmed feeling is to focus on the big picture and cut yourself some serious slack. For instance, if you need to bake 24 cupcakes for your daughter’s kindergarten class, don’t worry about decorating each one with a perfect little buttercream rosette. You’re not Martha Stewart! The cupcakes will taste just as yummy rosette-free, and no one will notice the difference. The less pressure you place on yourself, the more time you’ll have to stop and smell the roses (or the cupcakes, as the case may be…).
--> 6. Learn how to delegate. If you’re one of those “If-you-want-something-done-right, do-it-yourself” kind of gals, well… get over it! Like any new skill, accepting help can take time to learn. But once you do it, you’ll be surprised at how good it feels to cede control to others. Therefore, instead of trying to do it all, superhero-style, ask for help. If you’re the one in your household who usually cooks and serves dinner, clears the table and then washes up afterwards, try this: Have your kids or spouse set the table, or chop and peel vegetables. Have them clear, wash up and take the garbage out. Make your requests known, and your expectations clear. Once you’re in the habit of asking others to pitch in, you’ll be amazed at how much more you can accomplish (or, if you feel like, indulge in some well deserved time to yourself). Remember, if you don’t ask, you don’t get.
--> 7. Get more sleep. As counterintuitive as this may sound, getting more shut-eye actually allows a person to enjoy more waking hours in a day. The reason is simple: people who don’t get enough sleep at night tend to feel cranky, fuzzy, unmotivated
First Generation - The Popup Popups, if you're somehow, strangely, not familiar with the term, are those little windows that open when you visit certain sites. Popups are secondary browser windows that are opened up using JavaScript code. The properties of this new browser window are set in such a fashion that the new window does not have a address bar, status bar or the menu. Until about a few years ago the popup was considered to be the biggest breakthrough in advertising on the web. When they were first introduced they were a great success and click-through rates went through the roof. Exit the banner ad - enter the popup. Web marketers could interrupt whatever a visitor was viewing, by launching a secondary window on top of the first to draw attention to his advertisement or opt-in list or any other item that he wished to get the attention to.
--> 3. Multi-tisket, multitask it... Trying to juggle 10 balls at once is hard, because, ultimately, you’re bound to drop one or two (or all of them!) at any given moment. At the same time, who says you can’t juggle two, or even three if you feel like it? There’s nothing wrong with chatting on the phone with a girlfriend while pasting photos into a scrapbook or photo album, for instance. Or how about folding laundry, ironing or walking on the treadmill while listening to a book-on-tape or the news on your iPod? As long as you’re not trying to accomplish something that requires your concentrated or undivided attention (i.e., writing your dissertation; reading War and Peace; chopping wood), you should be able to handle it.
--> 4. Put yourself on a schedule. You know the saying, “If you want something done, give it to the busiest person you know”? Well, there’s a reason for that. Most busy people are on a tight schedule. They know that they have a specific amount of time to get something done, so they don’t dilly-dally or waste time. They buckle down and do what needs to be done. If you know that you have only two hours to accomplish a certain task, for instance, you’re more likely to focus on the task at hand and get it done in a speedy, time-efficient manner. In fact, the more time you have to do something, the longer you’re likely to spend doing it (read: all day!) If you’d like to see where your time’s really going, check out TaskCapture, a software program that monitors how long you spend working on files. For Windows and Mac; $79 at www.captureworks.com/taskcapture. Still not sure? Download a free, 15-day demo.
--> 5. Don’t be a Martha! With so much going on – emails to answer; calls to make; lunches to pack; clothes to launder; gifts to buy; meetings to attend – keeping your head above water can feel like a Herculean task. One way to handle this stressed-out, overwhelmed feeling is to focus on the big picture and cut yourself some serious slack. For instance, if you need to bake 24 cupcakes for your daughter’s kindergarten class, don’t worry about decorating each one with a perfect little buttercream rosette. You’re not Martha Stewart! The cupcakes will taste just as yummy rosette-free, and no one will notice the difference. The less pressure you place on yourself, the more time you’ll have to stop and smell the roses (or the cupcakes, as the case may be…).
--> 6. Learn how to delegate. If you’re one of those “If-you-want-something-done-right, do-it-yourself” kind of gals, well… get over it! Like any new skill, accepting help can take time to learn. But once you do it, you’ll be surprised at how good it feels to cede control to others. Therefore, instead of trying to do it all, superhero-style, ask for help. If you’re the one in your household who usually cooks and serves dinner, clears the table and then washes up afterwards, try this: Have your kids or spouse set the table, or chop and peel vegetables. Have them clear, wash up and take the garbage out. Make your requests known, and your expectations clear. Once you’re in the habit of asking others to pitch in, you’ll be amazed at how much more you can accomplish (or, if you feel like, indulge in some well deserved time to yourself). Remember, if you don’t ask, you don’t get.
--> 7. Get more sleep. As counterintuitive as this may sound, getting more shut-eye actually allows a person to enjoy more waking hours in a day. The reason is simple: people who don’t get enough sleep at night tend to feel cranky, fuzzy, unmotivated
"All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all" - Refrain from a hymn sang in British school assemblies during the 1960's.Life is precious and young life is most precious as it embodies the future and the chance to create a brighter and wiser world. So when a young life is taken we mourn the loss of potential as much as the devastating personal tragedy. Aberfan is the story of the tragic waste of young life on a monumental scale.For most people born before 1960 in America they can remember what they were doing when they heard President Kennedy got shot. For the same generation living in Britain at the time, you were more likely to remember what you were doing when you heard about Aberfan.On the morning of 21st October 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a tip of coal waste slid onto the village of Aberfan in South Wales. One of the first structures in the path of the slag slide was the village school. In just a few short minutes the future of this small welsh community was erased.Aberfan tormented and shrouded Britain fo
--> 5. Don’t be a Martha! With so much going on – emails to answer; calls to make; lunches to pack; clothes to launder; gifts to buy; meetings to attend – keeping your head above water can feel like a Herculean task. One way to handle this stressed-out, overwhelmed feeling is to focus on the big picture and cut yourself some serious slack. For instance, if you need to bake 24 cupcakes for your daughter’s kindergarten class, don’t worry about decorating each one with a perfect little buttercream rosette. You’re not Martha Stewart! The cupcakes will taste just as yummy rosette-free, and no one will notice the difference. The less pressure you place on yourself, the more time you’ll have to stop and smell the roses (or the cupcakes, as the case may be…).
--> 6. Learn how to delegate. If you’re one of those “If-you-want-something-done-right, do-it-yourself” kind of gals, well… get over it! Like any new skill, accepting help can take time to learn. But once you do it, you’ll be surprised at how good it feels to cede control to others. Therefore, instead of trying to do it all, superhero-style, ask for help. If you’re the one in your household who usually cooks and serves dinner, clears the table and then washes up afterwards, try this: Have your kids or spouse set the table, or chop and peel vegetables. Have them clear, wash up and take the garbage out. Make your requests known, and your expectations clear. Once you’re in the habit of asking others to pitch in, you’ll be amazed at how much more you can accomplish (or, if you feel like, indulge in some well deserved time to yourself). Remember, if you don’t ask, you don’t get.
--> 7. Get more sleep. As counterintuitive as this may sound, getting more shut-eye actually allows a person to enjoy more waking hours in a day. The reason is simple: people who don’t get enough sleep at night tend to feel cranky, fuzzy, unmotivated
When it comes to submitting medical insurance claims to the insurance companies, it is important to file the claims on the appropriate forms. The most common medical insurance form is the HCFA 1500.The HCFA 1500 form is a 8 ?”by 11” white paper printed with red ink. It contains many fields that must be completed. In an effort to standardize the medical industry, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) mandated that all medical service providers use the HCFA 1500 form when submitting insurance claims.It is crucial that the fields on the HCFA form are filled out accurately and completely. If any information is missing or incorrect it can cause the entire claim to be denied. In some cases they will return the incomplete or inaccurate claim with an explanation as to why it is not being paid. Other times, you just don’t hear anything. Did they end up with your socks that never returned from the dryer?There are some instances that a HCFA wouldn’t be used. If the claim is for an on the job injury, or a workers’ compensation claim, then a workers’ compensation form would be used. These forms vary fro
--> 6. Learn how to delegate. If you’re one of those “If-you-want-something-done-right, do-it-yourself” kind of gals, well… get over it! Like any new skill, accepting help can take time to learn. But once you do it, you’ll be surprised at how good it feels to cede control to others. Therefore, instead of trying to do it all, superhero-style, ask for help. If you’re the one in your household who usually cooks and serves dinner, clears the table and then washes up afterwards, try this: Have your kids or spouse set the table, or chop and peel vegetables. Have them clear, wash up and take the garbage out. Make your requests known, and your expectations clear. Once you’re in the habit of asking others to pitch in, you’ll be amazed at how much more you can accomplish (or, if you feel like, indulge in some well deserved time to yourself). Remember, if you don’t ask, you don’t get.
--> 7. Get more sleep. As counterintuitive as this may sound, getting more shut-eye actually allows a person to enjoy more waking hours in a day. The reason is simple: people who don’t get enough sleep at night tend to feel cranky, fuzzy, unmotivated and unproductive during the day. And not only are cranky, fuzzy, unmotivated and unproductive people not a lot of fun to be around, they end up wasting gobs of time because they’re too tired to focus – or even function! (Why do you think sleep deprivation is used as a form of torture, anyway?) The moral of this story? Get at least seven hours of sleep (eight is better), and don’t feel guilty for hitting the hay early. You deserve a good night’s rest.
--> 8. Step out of line! Lots of precious time is wasted in the check-out line. In the supermarket; at the post office; the bakery; the bank. Basically, anywhere that you can find a cash register, you’ll find a line. It will be long, and it won’t move. And if it does move, it will move slowly. Very, very s l o w l y. Plus, not only is waiting in line more tedious than watching paint dry, it’s a complete and utter waste of time. Time that could be spent engaged in other, more meaningful activities. One way to avoid these time-sapping lines is by ordering as much as humanly possible – from bananas to bicycles; nail polish to novels; violins to Volvos – online. Buying in bulk helps too (think: toilet paper; diapers; bottled water, etc). The bottom line? One less trip to the store is one less time-waster for you.
--> 9. Block temptations. As wondrous as the Internet is – and it is! It is! – it is also the greatest time-waster on earth. (Case in point: How many times have you bid on useless junk on eBay, or Googled hapless ex-boyfriends? And let’s not forget about PerezHilton.com!) Now, that’s not to pooh-pooh technology. It’s great, and you can’t stop the steady march of progress. But unless we keep our baser technological impulses in check, well, Houston…we’ve got a problem. Email is a perfect example. They suck up more time than an Electrolux. So, instead of clicking on each new message that bounces into your in-box, check your emails once per hour (or half hour, if you are truly addicted). If demonstrating this kind of restraint feels too difficult or downright impossible, you can always block your computer from certain programs – such as pesky emails – for a set period of time. For Windows only, try a free download at www.sourceforge.net/projects/temptblocker.
--> 10. Keep it in perspective. Of course, keeping lists, multitasking, scheduling, delegating and buying in bulk isn’t for all of us. Like rubbing your tummy and patting your head at the same time, some can do it effortlessly while others find it impossibly hard. If you fall into the latter category, don’t beat yourself up about it. Instead, accept the fact that you, like everyone else, have your limitations, and be kind to yourself. You might also find that having your own system of doing things works best for you. If that’s the case, be inventive. Create your own time-saving devices, and celebrate the fact that you’ve discovered something new. Oh, and don’t forget to share!
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