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Become Healthier By Keeping a Food Journal

Become Healthier By Keeping a Food Journal

February 6, 2013
Leading a healthy lifestyle seems intimadating to people whether it's that they're not sure what is "right" to eat, how to properly workout or what supplements may support their efforts. While working out regularly can help to reduce your stress, improve your health and help you to lose weight, this is usually one of the hardest things for people to keep up with. No matter how well-intentioned you are, when stress or travel or a busy schedule…
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What's In My Gear Bag: 2013 Edition

What’s In My Gear Bag: 2013 Edition

January 28, 2013
While there are many benefits to travel, one of the difficulties is staying productive while you're on the go. Sure, we have technology that enables us to accomplish our work from wherever we are. What takes time to develop, though, is our ideal workshifting set-up. I have logged more miles in airplanes than I care to count and spend many nights per year in hotel rooms. Over this time I have had to figure out the tools that I need to be produc…
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Announcing The Socialized Business Podcast

Announcing The Socialized Business Podcast

January 23, 2013
After a few months of brainstorming, planning and prepping, Jason Keath, Michael Brito and I are thrilled to announce the launch of The Socialized Business podcast. The first episode of the show is already live. During this first episode we discuss why we decided to launch a social business podcast, what social business means to us and discuss the future role of social media managers. In case you're not able to listen to the podcast rig…
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Use Less Folders to Increase Your Email Productivity

Use Less Folders to Increase Your Email Productivity

January 21, 2013
Over the years I have experimented with a number of different email folder strategies in an effort to increase my email productivity. I have created folder structures by team, project and person. I have created sub-folders that sorted email down to a single email in each folder. Every email that came in I would take 10-15 seconds to decide which folder it should go in. Usually it would come down to an internal debate about which was the best-…
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7 Tips for Consuming More Water

7 Tips for Consuming More Water

January 18, 2013
Keeping up your water intake is vital to your overall health and it goes far beyond wanting to lose weight or grow bigger muscles, though it helps with those goals too.  There are an endless number of reasons why drinking more water is good for you. A simple Google search for "benefits of drinking water" returns over 18 million results, with many of the articles on the first page containing multiple reasons. So, how much water should you be dr…
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Revisiting My 3 Words for 2012

Revisiting My 3 Words for 2012

Welcome to July. We are now 50% of the way through putting 2012 in the history books. Have you taken time to review your personal and professional goals? For the past few weeks my team has been busy putting together our plans for the 2nd half of 2012 and sharing them with various teams. Part [...]

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Stop Letting the Start Line Move

Stop Letting the Start Line Move

In a new CarMax commercial a moving start line leads the guy from his older van to the CarMax lot. The message that CarMax is getting across is that searching for a new car can be confusing, time consuming and such a daunting task that you don’t know where to start but that their team [...]

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Being Prepared with Back-Pocket Metrics

Being Prepared with Back-Pocket Metrics

You’re walking towards a conference room when one of the senior executives at your company passes you and stops for a minute to inquire into how everything within your functional area is going. Not having had the proper time to rehearse your KPI slide as you typically would before meeting with them, you quickly provide [...]

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12 Ways to Improve Focus

12 Ways to Improve Focus

  We’re all incredibly busy these days trying to balance an endless list of demands on our time. Every day it seems as though we’re saying “yes” to another personal or professional project while jotting down another idea that we hope to pursue someday. Add that to the never ending abundance of information from blog [...]

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Getting in Shape and Achieving Success in Social Media

Getting in Shape and Achieving Success in Social Media

You’ve decided that this year will be your year to get into shape. You’re going to hit the gym a few days per week and start eating healthier. You stop by the gym and sign up for a new membership plan with the towel service and free personal training consultation. After getting a new membership [...]

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