Sometimes it seems like life only ever gets busier, and worse yet, that there’s no way to keep up with it. Truth is, though, with some good habits, you really can juggle all of the events in your active and sometimes hectic life. The effort that goes into building these good habits will be beneficial…
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How to ACTUALLY Use a Checklist
It’s pretty easy to make a to-do list. In fact, many people do it everyday. However, many people never pay any attention to it after they’ve written it up. So what good is it? Truth is, a checklist can actually help boost your productivity if you use it correctly. Let’s take a look at some…
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How to Meet & Beat Your Deadlines
You may have heard the claim that if you give more work to the busiest person, they’ll get it done the fastest. Though we can’t generalize for every person, this is more or less true. I think about my schedule in college—how I juggled socializing, hundreds of pages of reading, writing my capstone, studying for…
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How Small Businesses Can Adapt to New Consumer Habits
With new CDC guidelines in place across the country, small businesses everywhere have been tasked with finding ways to maintain their customer base. As stores and restaurants of all kinds open their doors for indoor and outdoor shopping and dining, a variety of factors can make or break a customer’s decision to enter an…
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Maintaining Business Relationships From Home
These days, very few of us are able to work the way we used to. If you’re used to seeing your colleagues in person on a daily basis, working from home can be a difficult adjustment. There’s something special about working with people face to face, a connection that’s hard to recreate through a screen.…
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Becoming the Teacher: A Parent’s Guide to Balancing Your Kid’s Curriculum With Your Own
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed more than most of us anticipated. Not only are we washing our hands like mad men, but we’re turning our homes into offices, gyms, and with the cancellation of schools, classrooms. With the sudden addition of homeschooling to parents’ schedules, juggling work and home responsibilities on top of being…
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How to Master Email Writing
In the current technology age, email has become a staple of both workplace and personal communication. However, after all the time spent texting, it can be tricky to figure out how to write a formal email. Having good email skills helps you come across as professional and respectful and can give you that extra edge…
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Easy Habits to Boost Productivity
Are you struggling with that to-do list? With work, home, family, friends, and responsibilities that need to be tended to, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and under productive. The good news is that by changing some habits you can boost your productivity and get more done in less time! Prioritize your to-do list. …
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The Pros and Cons of Social Media
Despite being a relatively recent creation, social media is already ingrained in our lives. Here are a few reasons why that could be cause for celebration, and a few reasons why it may be cause for concern. PROS: Streamlined Communication: Perhaps the greatest gift social media has given us is connectivity with the rest…
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5 Reasons Why Writing About Yourself Is Important
We’ve all had to do it at some point or another whether we enjoyed it or not. Writing about ourselves is likely something we’ve had to do for a school assignment, applying for jobs, or for a biography on our online profiles. It can be uncomfortable and make you feel exposed or vulnerable, but sometimes…
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