09 Nov
Posted by Alex as Business, Money and Finance, Work and Career
Starting up a business is tricky, but maintaining your gain could prove to be trickier. If you have started your own brilliant business venture you will soon dream making it bigger. Like a parent to a child, you can’t just wait for your small business to grow. But is it time? Start sketching your business [...]
08 Nov
Posted by Alex as Attitude and Outlook, Business, Work and Career
In my book, leaders are made, not born. Not everyone is a born leader. And perhaps you’re not born one, too. But you can learn how to be a leader and that’s what’s important.
Being the boss is hard. Of course you earn more than the rest of the people in the office, but more importantly, you greatly affect how the others do their work. All you have to do is set your expectations and they will have to work their way to measure up.
A successful person like you is sure to have a lot of responsibilities and appointments. You trained yourself to be highly-reliable for your boss and have set your eyes on a career you can have if you continue to be focused on your work. But do you ever stop sometimes to think that maybe you [...]
If you are in a startup business, you know what you have to do: market your business. Let’s say you are selling ladies’ bags and blouses but you just want it home-based because you don’t want the hassles and financial considerations of renting a commercial space, can you think of an ingenious way to promote [...]
06 Nov
Posted by Alex as Attitude and Outlook, Family, Work and Career
Being a parent is a very arduous task. There’s no room for mistakes, and it requires a massive amount of patience. Kids are just a boxful of surprises. You don’t know what they’re up to most of the time. You only know you have your expectations, and when they don’t measure up, that’s when you [...]
It probably takes being a superhero to be successful at both career and personal life. If you’re a successful career person but without much personal life or a happy person without much of a career, you are halfway there. But you want both, right?
30 Oct
Posted by Alex as Business, Money and Finance, Work and Career
In-betweeners, tweens, or pre-teens are getting a lot of attention from the marketing and advertising industry. These two market segments play a large role on the allocation of the family budget. Their influence is very strong that the buyer (which may be a parent or a grandparent), out of strong affection for them, would eventually [...]
29 Oct
Posted by Alex as Attitude and Outlook, Money and Finance, Work and Career
While a large percentage of society consists of workaholics, there are still many of us who long to be free of the hassles of everyday work and be able to live at a more carefree pace. You can fast-forward your way to an early and comfortable retirement if you really focus on it and here’s [...]
Setting up a business is a very dangerous business. When you do get the capital, you think you got everything you need. But unless you know the nitty-gritty, you can’t make it big in the business. Managing your own business can be extremely taxing because it requires sacrifice and all your attention. How do you [...]
07 Oct
Posted by Alex as Business, Money and Finance, Work and Career
If your business relies on getting their job done, then you might want to free them up a bit by taking away one thing that may hamper their productivity - generating leads. Working marketing, I’ve had my share of dealing with sales people back in my day as a corporate junkie and I’d have to [...]
04 Oct
Posted by Alex as Attitude and Outlook, Fitness and Health, Work and Career
How do you achieve serenity at the end of every day after a long day of work comprised of meetings and presentations? The most common hassles such as traffic, noise pollution, sudden rain, or a bad joke can instantly put you in a bad mood.
02 Oct
Posted by Alex as Attitude and Outlook, Business, Work and Career
Browsing over my reading backlog, I stumbled upon this great feature on what’s said to be the “new office disease” - boreout. Forget burnout, Times Online’s Roger Boyes says as boreout has replaced burnout as the workplace virus.
Symptoms are quite similar to burnout. You feel irritable, drained and staring blankly into space. The main difference? [...]
02 Oct
Posted by Alex as Attitude and Outlook, Business, Work and Career
Is it important to you that you become successful in your chosen career? Many people take their jobs for granted, thinking that their job is taking over their lives and all that drama. This kind of attitude will not lead you to becoming the successful professional you always dreamed yourself to be. Realize what it [...]
02 Oct
Posted by Alex as Behavior and Ethics, Business, Work and Career
What is your plan to achieve success in your work? If it’s kissing your boss’s ass every working day then forget it! We have way better methods. Work your way to the top by getting heard and be understood by your officemates. Know and learn what it takes to put forward your best ideas.