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Your website represents you. Build something to be proud of.
Simple ways to improve your site:
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Archive for August, 2008
Are you passionate?
"Looking for someone with a huge amount of heart, someone who can give lots of care, dedication, time, money, and support. Must be creative, a good worker, listener and enjoy giving a massage to copy now and then. Sense of humor a must." Read the rest of this entry »
Sound a little like a personal ad, doesn’t it? The only thing missing is
No BUTS Allowed. Five steps to the finish line.
Impression Engineers’ “START” Method
Solution: Why are we doing this? Define the purpose or solution you need.
Target: What are we developing? As Covey says, “Begin with the end in mind.”
Accomplish: How do we accomplish? Start by viewing the project from beyond the completion date and work backwards breaking down the steps, components and subcomponents. Capture all the features, aspects, and qualities you imagine in place.
Resolve: When do we do these things? After identifying the components even down to the subcomponents, sequences, events, and/or priorities, what must happen and in what order? Place your components in a logical order and then GET STARTED! (Nothing is written in stone, you can always go back and recover a step or two.) The bulletin board and index cards work well at this step for organizing projects.
Solution: Why are we doing this? Define the purpose or solution you need.
Target: What are we developing? As Covey says, “Begin with the end in mind.”
Accomplish: How do we accomplish? Start by viewing the project from beyond the completion date and work backwards breaking down the steps, components and subcomponents. Capture all the features, aspects, and qualities you imagine in place.
Resolve: When do we do these things? After identifying the components even down to the subcomponents, sequences, events, and/or priorities, what must happen and in what order? Place your components in a logical order and then GET STARTED! (Nothing is written in stone, you can always go back and recover a step or two.) The bulletin board and index cards work well at this step for organizing projects.
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Focus on what to give our time and attention to.
A friend, Jeff, sent me a link to a death clock website. Morbid as it sounds, I went there and did the little "drill". I got back the "news"… What an awakening moment. Read the rest of this entry »
