Who Moved My Cheese: Don’t File That Divorce Just Yet!

Mar 06 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Family Features, Tricks of the Trade

I know that this stretch of Who Moved My Cheese “lessons” may well get to you, because I have FOUR posts dedicated to them, but I just had to make a disclaimer before I give you the Cliff’s Notes of its principles for next week. Cheese, in Who Moved My Cheese, is a metaphor for anything in life that gives security. The book is all about adapting to change. As applied to relationships, there is a danger for people to take it the wrong way. So before I give you the Cliff’s Notes of the Who Moved My Cheese parable, let me explain how its principles could be applied to Moldy Cheese Relationships.

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Who Moved My Cheese: An Intro

Mar 03 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Concepts, Tricks of the Trade

Who Moved My Cheese had become a modern-day parable, of sorts, to the stressed and harassed individual, who, paradoxically, seems resistant to change. It is a collection of K-I-S-S principles wrapped in a kid-story package that is sure to be embraced by a lot of people, because it is very non-offensive. The “wrapper” story is a story of two mice and two “littlepeople,” whose attitudes to change were told around how they reacted when their “cheese” suddenly disappeared.

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Why You Need To Rest Part 2: Tips for staying in tip-top performance

Dec 19 2007

Posted by Lorie Therese as Strategies, Tricks of the Trade, Virtual Office

Just this Monday, I posted on why we all need to rest. Now my tips for staying at peak performance include: Have a rest day. Whether you’re Jewish, Christian, Moslem, Buddhist, Baha’i, Agnostic, or an Atheist, set a rest day where you can recharge and renew your energies. On that day, turn off your computer. Set aside everything that resembles your paperwork, even post-its. Grab a non-business or work-related book, a feel-good book, a feel-good DVD that doesn’t require you to think, and just relax.

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Why You Need To Rest Part 1: Intro

Dec 17 2007

Posted by Lorie Therese as Strategies, Tricks of the Trade, Virtual Office

Finally, I’m starting my workweek! After an entire week of downtime, virtually doing NOTHING and feeling worthless, I’m only too glad to be making money err, working again. Speaking of feeling worthless and for what it’s worth for women who love to multi-task, I’m listing here what I think I should do, and what I believe are essential for staying in tip-top shape, productivity-wise. I believe that productivity is not a matter of pushing yourself to the limit. Rather, it’s a matter of getting that work-life balance thing down pat.

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Writer’s Survival Kit 2: Tools for the Tech-Savvy Scribe-slash-Visionary

Nov 27 2007

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Concepts, Lifestyle and Leisure, Tricks of the Trade, Virtual Office

Last week, I discussed my primitivo royale writer’s tools to maximize time. Now here is my concept survival kit, because I have yet to purchase any of these, because I had to fill my room with essentials first. I believe that the tech-savvy writer has to have the best tools of the trade in order to do his or her job excellently. These tools, these gadgets do not have to be the top-of-the-line branded stuff, but as long as they: are sturdy, durable, and will last you at least two years deliver decent to great output serve their purpose and more.. ..then they are top-notch in my book. More so if they are as hot as this baby that I deem essential to my career, and am actually aiming to get. I believe that a writer/blogger, when offline, has to have these essentials

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Writer’s Survival Kit 1: Stone-Age Tools

Nov 19 2007

Posted by Lorie Therese as Lifestyle and Leisure, Tricks of the Trade

If a girl scout has to have her flashlight, swiss knife, can opener, and mosquito repellant handy in order to survive camp, a writer has to have her essentials in order to survive her personal jungle, too.. My personal jungle includes: traffic jams, waiting for friends, long train rides, lazy afternoons with nothing to do in an Internet-devoid coffeeshop. While I surely have yet to encounter situations wherein I am devoid of the luxury of being online in a coffeeshop, as WiFi is abundant in my country, who knows, I might get stuck killing time in javalandia ...

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System reforms can solve the problem of tax avoidance

Jun 02 2006

Posted by Gordon as Accounting and Finance, Business Concepts, General Management, Tricks of the Trade

Based on what a group of business leaders have discussed in a recent gathering, a comprehensive reform in the tax system is the most effective solution to the problem of tax avoidance. According to a recently conducted comprehensive study on tax avoidance, the Institute of Directors (IoD) has signified its advocacy for the redesign of the entire tax system in order to remove the current artificial boundaries between things that are considered as close commercial substitutes. The employers’ organisation has been insisting that a swift action on the problem is absolutely needed what with taxpayers getting more and ...

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The first step

Mar 13 2006

Posted by J. Angelo as Business Concepts, Company Formation Tips, Tricks of the Trade

Among the first essential steps to starting a business is establishing the corporate entity. Sadly, this is sometimes the last thing aspiring entrepreneurs take care of. For instance, I have a business contact who’s had an interesting (and viable) business idea for years, but still has not incorporated a local company. My friend goes about talking to prospective investors and partners, but some feel that he is not too serious about getting into business because of the lack of a solid corporate entity. Hence, the first step one should consider in setting up a business is incorporating into ...

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UK business owners over-stressed

Feb 26 2006

Posted by Gordon as Business Enhancements, General Management, Tricks of the Trade

A recent survey of 7,000 small and medium-size business owners in the UK shows that as much as 43% experience rising stress levels. This is due to various factors, majority of which involve an unsure business environment in some sectors. For instance, business owners are said to be facing constant pressure in terms of competition from the global market (after all, who could compete with low-cost labour countries such as China?). The study also points out the number of holidays in a year taken by the respondents as a factor to reducing stress. Here’s a great tip for business owners and those ...

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Good news for BlackBerry addicts

Feb 09 2006

Posted by Gordon as Business News, Tricks of the Trade, Virtual Office

Businessmen and company execs who are glued to their BlackBerry mobile email devices can stop worrying that their beloved service might soon disappear. Canadian firm Research in Motion (RIM), creator of the highly popular technology, is planning to release a workaround to the patent infringement issue currently pending in court. RIM had been in the losing side of a legal battle with American patent-holdings firm NTP spanning more than three years for alleged copyright infringements by some technologies used by the BlackBerry software and service. Many users have feared that US courts might order a stoppage in service. RIM is confident that ...

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