Many people thrive under pressure, or at least they think they do. You know the type (maybe you are the type), they know of a deadline three weeks in advance, promise to themselves and their co-workers that they’re going to begin work immediately, schedule an internal deadline for a final review and arrive to the deadline empty handed.
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The detriment of procrastination
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged deadlines, procrastination, work envriornment on February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
New Year, new [fill in the blank]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2010, change, chocolate, chocolate making, chocolate teaching, resolutions, taste of chocolate on January 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The new year offers us all a time for reflection and looking forward. It’s a time to make new promises to ourselves and begin on the adventure of self improvement.
Procrastination can be helpful
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chocolate, contracts, procrastination, web design, website on October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Procrastination can be helpful (sometimes). I know, it seems counter intuitive. But, over the last two evenings I’ve experienced just how helpful procrastination can be, as long as you manage it productively.
Free calendar – October 2009 ready for download
Posted in Uncategorized on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’re just around the corner from October. That means another month in my 2009 Calendar series is ready for download. For October I wanted to symbolize warmth and Halloween (my brother-in-law’s favorite holiday) without going the route of traditional symbolism. Instead, I choose to highlight the warmth of the color orange. A single color for [...]
Breaking the rules and transfering from Blogger to WordPress
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogger, blogs, marketing engagement, rules, valerie conyngham, wordpress on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everything we do has a set of rules. Often we stick to them, other times we break them. One rule of blogging, pick a platform and stick with it. Here I am breaking that rule. I’m saying goodbye Blogger, hello Wordpress.
Finding focus
Posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been following this blog you’ve noticed my lack of attention to it in the past few months. I’m sure the reason is similar to those you’ve read on other blogs – lack of time, lack of energy, lack of, well, creativity. Marketing Engagement started out as a collection of marketing thoughts from my [...]
Get happy fast
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Take a break out of your day and read The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur’s list of 199 Ways to Get Happy Fast. My contribution is tip number 52 (though right now number 52 is listed twice, maybe once you click through that will be fixed and my tip will be number 54). Anyway, here’s my tip [...]
Free font helps save ink
Posted in Uncategorized on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Is one of your New Year’s resolutions to be more earth friendly? Here’s a creative way from SPRANQ to help you achieve your goal. They’ve developed a font, available as a free download, which uses up to 20 percent less ink than traditional fonts. There has been a lot of emphasis the past few years [...]
