Repetitive stress injuries (RSI) plague our workplaces. Risks of getting RSI can be from poor office ergonomics or just plain poor work habits. While we can’t always demand for ergonomic office furniture, we can adjust our work habits to gear towards RSI prevention. Here are 5 quick reminders for you to avoid getting repetitive [...]

I’ve been writing a good deal about different approaches to the work environment in order to increase work productivity and often referred to how working at home or having control over time has an effect on worker morale and productivity.
Yesterday, the NY Times had this great article on approaches to work hours entitled, Time Wasted? [...]

There have been plenty of sitcoms featuring couples bickering over paint jobs at home. Usually they end up wrestling over buckets of paint for a whole messy finale. But seriously, picking colors for your home isn’t just about who likes what. If you end up not getting to decide because of preferences, then try deciding [...]

Web Worker Daily posted this very insightful article on the 20-Hour Work Week of the Future. Many have really shifted to be freelancers especially with work-at-home jobs getting more and more lucrative and quite easy with the Internet. The article cites a Gartner research.
As IT becomes woven into the fabric of people’s lives and traditional [...]

Erik of Money Crashers wrote this great bit on career transitions. I’ve written a similar post on the topic here, one on starting new careers. I love how he placed the thoughts and feelings of career-switching in this part of a great first paragraph:

Let me guess, you are completely bored at work, you watch for [...]

With today’s very demanding workplace and a much more demanding lifestyles, you can just run out of energy in the middle of whatever you’re doing. The trick to be always on the go is properly manage your energy. Here are a few tips to help you to properly use your juice.

We have to grow up sometime. A good time to start acting grown up is after you’ve finished school. Life wouldn’t be about late Friday night booze outs or frat house parties and Spring breaks. It’s not about Cliff’s Notes and sleeping through Professor Cunningham’s pre-midterm speech. It’s a time for striking for opportunities and [...]

Got too much extra time on your hands? Why not consider volunteer work. While it doesn’t really pay monetarily but it does pay you in terms of the other rewards and joys of knowing you’re helping out. Interested? Here are some tips on how to find volunteer work.

I’ve already posted a couple of techniques before. Here’s one on a technique called chunking and another one using imagery. Now let me round up my set of memory improvement tips with this post and share with you a few more techniques on improving your memory. These do not only apply to students but a [...]

Here’s a common scenario - file cabinets and work desk drawers are filled with all sorts of papers. Productivity can be hampered by such clutter. Besides, it’s a total waste of storage space. Here’s a list of paper stuff that you can shred and throw away.

Motivator posters can try too hard at times. I often found them a bit too much when hung at workplaces. Honestly, when I see one of those on the wall of a boss’ office, it comes to me as something insecure. Haha. Especially the one with “Leadership” on it.
But don’t get me wrong, these [...]

Lack of belief in oneself is a killer. It doesn’t help you at all. And you need no one else but yourself to turn things around. Here are a few encouraging words to help you put a little faith into yourself.

Many things can frustrate you. Career. Finances. Your spouse. Your neighbor’s noisy dog who keeps barking at night. But why do you have to always be. There are solutions to problems and what you need to move on is a positive look on life. Here are some tips on how you can overcome bouts of [...]

Personal or otherwise, crises should be dealt with urgency, efficiency and with a clear head. It can be something really minor that makes us anxious or something really major that it causes panic. Either way, large or small, there’s a way out of a crisis. Here are some tips on overcoming a crisis.

Normally, I try to inject a bit of humor into my posts here. That’s my “style”, I suppose…but on this particular subject there is very little to make light of. If there is someone in your life that is hurting your, or scaring you by doing what you consider to be “stalking” [...]