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How To Conduct Effective Meetings at Work

Guide to Effective Meetings

Note from Celes: This will be the final guest post from Cornel and the last post in the Corporate Career Column. I would like to thank Cornel for his amazing contributions in the past three months: from the three-part office politics series, to the work-life balance article, to today’s post on how to conduct effective meetings. Be sure to swing over to his blog, Poise…

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Procrastinating on Studying? 5 Ready Tips To Overcome Procrastination [Student Edition!]

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How would you answer this question: “When are you going to do your Social Studies assignment that’s due next week?” I’m pretty sure your answer isn’t “right now.” It’s more likely that your answer is “maybe tomorrow.” Why complete the assignment today when it’s only due next week, right? At some level, though, you know it’s a bad idea to procrastinate. When you wait until…

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Work-Life Balance: Your Guide to Achieving that Elusive Balance Between Work and Life

Work-Life Balance

Is it really feasible to achieve work-life balance nowadays? Or is it just a myth? There were times I used to regularly work 14-hour days. I remember a discussion with a colleague on this topic. At one point I said “Yeah, but what can you do?” and she answered simply “There is always something you can do”. It was such a simple statement, but it…

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How To Overcome Distractions When It’s Time To Study

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Today, I’m very proud to introduce to you the fourth guest columnist to join the PE family: Daniel Wong, author of the book The Happy Student! By now, you guys are probably no stranger to Daniel. I had Daniel as the first guest of Celes.TV, with the episode being about how to be a top student. If you haven’t caught the interview yet, do so…

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3 Simple Tips To Achieve Inbox Zero Using E-mail Filters [Video]

Achieve Inbox Zero through E-mail Filters

Many people often ask me how I manage my e-mails. Even though I receive a fair amount of mail every week, I’m on top of almost every mail that enters my mailbox and respond to priority mail like urgent enquiries, media enquiries and business mail very quickly, sometimes right away. And the best thing is this: I spend less than two minutes managing my mail…

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Your One-Stop Guide To Outsourcing: Why You Should Outsource and How To Get Started in the Next 20 Minutes

Outsourcing

Recently, I’ve fallen in love with outsourcing. Today, I’m going to share about the process of outsourcing and how you can outsource too. With online portals like Elance and Odesk today, anyone can outsource a job and get good responses in a matter of hours. Why Outsource? In my recent The Superstar Effect article, I wrote about the importance of focus. Focus on the one big thing…

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How to Get Maximum Results When You Have Too Many Ideas (Harnessing The Superstar Effect)

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Hi Celes, [how would you recommend] organizing one interests for maximum productivity? I know a lot of people, myself included who are passionate about lots of things, and while it’s sound advice to just hone in on the few things that really matter, there’s always the idea creep where you keep getting little project ideas and little offshoot projects etc… These can weigh down progress….

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We Are Featured in Today’s Sun-Herald and The Sunday Age! (Oct 9, 2011)

Featured in Sun Herald's Sunday Age

I’m happy to announce that we’re featured in Australia’s The Sun-Herald (newspaper in Sydney, published every Sunday) and The Age (Melbourne’s daily newspaper) today! Just last month, I was invited to write an article for The Sunday Life (a supplement that’s distributed as part of The Sun-Herald and The Age) on how to live a more productive life. The article below is the result! *Click…

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Million Dollar Tip #4: Scale Up Your Work

Million Dollar Tip: Scale Up Your Work

This is Tip #4 of the Million Dollar Tip Series. If you have financial goals in life, you’ll find this series a perfect resource to achieve them. If you want to earn an average income, simply delivering value, leveraging on your skills and helping some people address their needs will let you to live quite sufficiently from month to month. However, these won’t help your earnings…

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23 Useful Freeware You Will Definitely Find Handy

Freeware

Today’s post is to share my favorite applications (including web-based apps), based on years of sieving and experimentation. You’ll find many of them very handy. The amazing thing is – they are all freeware!

Total count: 22. I’ll add on over time as I find new gems. Enjoy! :)

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Life Without Facebook: An Update

Goodbye

It’s been a week since I’ve nuked my Facebook account, and everything’s going great so far. In case you’ve missed my earlier post on why I deleted Facebook, read it here first: Deleting Facebook From My Life. Like I mentioned in my first post, I’m not a standard Facebook user (with almost 5,000 friends in my personal account and 2 fan pages…

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