Dont let the holidays get the best of you - Hallie Crawford

Dont let the holidays get the best of you Tis the season to reflect, celebrate and give thanks Fall is here and with it Thanksgiving for those of you in the states. Its the time of year when we give thanks for what we are grateful for in our lives and celebrate what weve accomplished. If youre like me, when you achieve a goal you take brief moment to relish in it before quickly moving on to the next goal, or issue that needs to be fixed. While looking forward is important, it is equally important to consider where youve been. When youre giving thanks this year take some quality time savor the good things in your life. It doesnt have to be extravagant to be special. Go out for a nice dinner, have a glass of wine, do something special you normally dont do. Set aside time to make it meaningful. Decide specifically how and what you want to celebrate. Resist the temptation to rush through your Holiday To Do List and be sure to carve out time to celebrate and give thanks. Dont let the holidays get the best of you. Check out my Work/Life Balance Audio and Worksheets to help you manage the holiday rush:Taken from an actual client call, this 50 minute audio and bonus worksheets offer easy to implement action steps that will leave you feeling relaxed and more in control of both your personal and work life. Click here to prep for the holidays and get your life into balance today- Only $20! (Downloadable MP3 audio file and PDF worksheets. Audio will automatically play on your computer, or you can download it to your iPod.) What others say about Hallie’s coaching… Hallie knows how to get me motivated. I now know how to better identify, set, and attain my goals as well as overcome obstacles that get in my way. Hallie has really changed my approach to my career… and my life! Kate Burruss, Atlanta, GA Dont let the holidays get the best of you Career Coach

How to Format a Resume - Formatting a Resume Online to Improve Your Career

How to Format a Resume - Formatting a Resume Online to Improve Your CareerYou can find a lot of information on resumes online that can really help you improve your career. For example, if you're in medical billing and coding, you can find out about how to format a resume and learn the best way to explain your experience to employers.Medical billing and coding are the name given to the process of making sure people pay for their medical services. Therefore, you need to have some knowledge of the medical industry to be able to write a quality resume for yourself. To begin with, you should consider the best medical writing format online that you can use.It is very important to format your resume using the best medical billing and coding formats. Not all companies will accept this type of resume, so you need to make sure you submit your resume to the right company so that you will be able to be successful.You should also consider including medical terminology in your resume. Remember tha t a company might not want you to spell your name, but instead they will want you to write in your medical billing code.Another thing you can do is include some personal information such as your medical history and the type of job you are applying for. This can be done by including a section at the bottom of your resume such as 'Personal details'. The personal information that you include in your resume is an important factor that will help you get hired.If you want to improve your chances of getting hired, then you need to learn a good resume writing format online. A lot of people claim that only traditional resume writing programs can create a good one, but it is true that a lot of online programs can as well.Online programs will help you because they will give you the proper guidelines to make your resume. Make sure that you include all the information in your resume that will help you get hired by any company.

26 Time Management Tricks

26 Time Management Tricks Most people learn time management the hard way: by trial and error. Étienne Garbugli, a Montreal-based product and marketing consultant and the author of “Lean B2B: Build Products Businesses Want,” distilled the lessons he wishes he’d known when he was 20. He created the following presentation, posted to SlideShare, which we’ve shared here with his permission. 1. There’s always time. Time is priorities. 2. Days always fill up. “Only plan for 4-5 hours of real work per day” â€"David Heinemeier Hansson, 37 Signals 3. Work more when you’re in the zone. Relax when you’re not. “It’s normal to to have days where you just can’t work and days where you’ll work 12 hours straight.” â€"Alain Paquin, Whatsnexx 4. Respect your time and make it respected. “Your time is $1,000/hour, and you need to act accordingly.” â€"Jason Cohen, @asmartbear 5. Stop multitasking. It merely kills your focus. 6. Set up a work routine and stick to it. Your body will adapt. 7. We’re always more focused and productive with limited time. 8. Work is the best way to get working. Start with short tasks to get the ball rolling. 9. Work iteratively. Expectations to do things perfectly are stifling. “Doing is better than perfect.” â€"Facebook company motto 10. More work hours doesn’t mean more productivity. Use constraints as opportunities. 11. Separate brainless and strategic tasks to become more productive. “Separate thinking and execution to execute faster and think better.” â€"Sol Tangua, Imarklab 12. Organize meetings early during the day. Time leading up to an event is often wasted. 13. Group meetings and communication (email or phone) to create blocks of uninterrupted work. “A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in.” â€"Paul Graham, YCombinator 14. Keep the same context throughout the day. Switching between projects/clients is unproductive. 15. Work around procrastination. Procrastinate between intense sprints of work. 16. Break the unreasonable down into little reasonable chunks. “A big goal is only achieved when every little thing that you do everyday, gets you closer to that goal.” â€"Maren Kate, Escaping the 9 to 5 17. No two tasks ever hold the same importance. Always prioritize. Be really careful with to-do lists. 18. Always know the one thing you really need to get done during the day. “Only ever work on the thing that will have the biggest impact.” â€"Jason Cohen, @asmartbear 19. Break tasks into hour increments. Long tasks are hard to get into; feels like it all needs to get done. 20. Delegate and learn to make use of other people. “If something can be done 80% as well by someone else, delegate!” â€"John C. Maxwell, Author 21. Turn the page on yesterday. Only ever think about today and tomorrow. “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” -Babe Ruth, Hall of Fame baseball player 22. Set deadlines for everything. Don’t let tasks go on indefinitely. 23. Set end dates for intense or stressful activities. Everything ends at some point. 24. Always take notes. “Get a reminder app for everything. Do not trust your own brain for your memory.” â€"Julien Smith, author 25. Write down anything that distracts youâ€"Google searches, random thoughts, new ideas, whatever. “The point is, if you write them down, they’ll stop bubbling up when you’re in the zone.” â€"Steven Corona, Twitpic 26. Take breaks, sometimes. This story originally appeared on Business Insider.