Archive for December 4th, 2007

December 4, 2007: 8:38 pm: adminArts & Crafts

Strange to say but once you have mastered the basics of building a model airplane and have a few spare bits lying around your workshop or garage it becomes very easy to produce your very own design of RC model airplane. Simple Plastic Airplane Design (SPAD) is really cheap and fun alternative to constructing expensive remote controlled model airplanes kits.

The concept of SPAD started in the late 90’s and has evolved into a highly detailed and solid method for building RC model airplanes. While using traditional building materials and techniques can take weeks or months to put an airplane together, applying the SPAD concept can reduce the build time down to days, or even hours.

SPAD materials are widely available and are less expensive than those used in standard balsa model airplane kits. Plans and help for building a SPAD can be found online and are completely free. The best part about flying a SPAD is its survivability when it comes to the inevitable crashes as your enthusiasm gets away from you!

The basic RC model airplane SPAD concept revolves around using inexpensive building materials that can be found at local hardware stores and sign shops - or even picked up for nothing from builders cast-offs. While the materials required for constructing a SPAD vary from one design to another, the basic materials used include; PCV downspout pipe for the fuselage, CoroPlast(corrugated platic) sign material for the wings and controls surfaces, HDPE cutting boards for firewalls and landing gear blocks, and CA (superglue) to hold everything together.

Because of the simplicity involved in putting a SPAD RC model airplane together, even an inexperienced modeler can complete the job in a single weekend. A basic fuselage made from PVC downspout can be made in a matter of minutes, CoroPlast wings and control surfaces in just a few hours, and all the miscellaneous parts to complete the project in just a few hours more. Acquiring the materials needed for a RC model airplane SPAD project may require no more than a trip to the local hardware store and a few phone calls to local sign shops.

Aside from these readily available materials, there are a few other items that you will need; self tapping sheet metal screws, zip ties, a utility knife and a few wood sticks(4mmx27mmx1m Pine lathing/lattice). Other items needed to complete your RC model airplane, such as wheels, landing gear and control arms, will need to be fabricated or purchased from your favorite hobby store.

Plans for building a SPAD RC model airplane are available online, free of charge, from many different sources. SpadToTheBone.com, the original home for the RC model airplane SPAD concept, has plans to suit just about anyone. From the ever popular trainer called the Debonair, to the more sophisticated Coro Edge 540 sport/funfly model. A community has been built around the RC model airplane SPAD concept at SpadWorld.net where model builders from all over the globe help each other learn better and more exciting ways to make SPADs.

One of the greatest benefits to building with the RC model airplane SPAD materials is just how tough they are. Whether you’re trying a new aerobatic maneuver and just can’t seem to pull out of it, or just learning to take off for the first time and cartwheel your airplane down the runway, the chances that your plane will survive are very good. Compared to easily breakable balsa, plastic is a very forgiving material that can survive higher impact speeds without damage - and is easily fixed when broken.

Ease of construction, low cost and survivability all add up to a package that encourages modellers to experiment with design concepts and methods that extend the envelope of their experience and knowledge. Why not give it a go yourself?

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Bruce Bird makes it easy for the beginner to quickly get a grasp of the broad range of exciting activities that make up airplane modeling. To receive his FREE 5 part mini-series visit “target=”_blank”>Model Airplane Secrets.

: 3:17 pm: adminThe Technology Way

There are many different ways of delivering your business
communication:
direct mail;
in-person sales calls;
telephone;
the annual report;
above and below the line advertising;
packaging; posters, and
company stationery to name just a few.

Each involves a financial cost for both production and
distribution. Are there ways of reducing these costs?

Certainly! eTechnology allows the production of words, sound and
visual elements to be seamlessly integrated in a dizzying number
of ways to achieve different ends. Each element can then be
‘re-purposed’ or re-used in a different way to try new marketing
and content delivery approaches.

These are just some of the potential new technology outputs that
your marketing messages and end-user documents can be
distributed through:

* cd-roms

* pdf documents (an electronic format for storing and sending
documents which ensures that the design integrity of your
documents remain intact, irrespective of the end-user’s computer
and printer configuration)

* website

* mobile phone technology such as sms and wap

* PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) devices such as a PalmPilot

* web-tv

The cool thing about many of these distribution mediums is that
once the cost of producing one item is paid for (such as
creating the original document), the cost of making a thousand
or a million copies is negligible.

Imagine the saving if you could do away with 80% of the printing
and posting costs of your expensive Annual Report, allowing
instead any interested party to download it from your website,
or be sent it via email.

You will not completely get rid of the need for hard copies of
your Annual Report as there will always be either a regulatory
requirement or shareholders and investment analysts who like the
‘feel’ of a bound document in their hand, or they lack the
facilities to download and print the Report off. But such a
saving would definitely allow you to invest the saving in more
growth-focused marketing and sales activities.

The internet, be it the World Wide Web where your website sits,
or the greater part of the internet that allows for email
transmissions, is a tremendously powerful and cost-effective
distribution channel.

Once you have invested in the tools - such as a website or
pdf-creation software - you have a licence to market your
messages down the most efficient distribution media the world
has ever known. For free.

It costs nothing to send email, once you have paid for access to
the Internet. It costs nothing to have valuable information up
on your website, once you have paid for the design and building
of your site and its hosting. You can change your content on
that website as many times as you like - you ‘own’ the space and
you can do with it pretty much what you will.

Which allows you to push out your unpolluted marketing message,
or your fact sheets, or your installation guides, to as wide an
audience as you can attract.

And let’s not forget that eTechnology can help us build a
targeted, qualified audience of prospects and more rapidly turn
them into clients, because they have in part already taken the
first steps to building a relationship with you themselves, by
visiting your website and finding out more about you and your
service/product offerings.

The implication for your business communication costs
Using eTechnology you can quickly and efficiently update your
prices, introduce new products and services, provide better
service to your existing customers, generate new leads, position
your brand and inform your stakeholders - all at costs
significantly less than traditional media allows.

Note: this article on efficiency in business communication was
extracted from my eReport, “The Three Es for Business Profit”.
Download your free copy of this report now from:
http://www.hopkins-business-communication-training.com

About the Author

When you match consumer psychology with effective communication
styles you get a powerful combination. At Hopkins-Business-
Communication-Training.com you can find the secrets to
communication success. At Hopkins we show you how to communicate
better for better business results.

www.hopkins-business-communication-training.com

: 2:13 pm: adminThe Technology Way

Calling widespread bad habits in database administration “deadly” may seem
extreme. However, when you consider the critical nature of most data, and just how
damaging data loss or corruption can be to a corporation, “deadly” seems pretty
dead-on.

Although these habits are distressingly common among DBAs, they are curable with
some shrewd management intervention. What follows is a list of the seven habits we
consider the deadliest, along with some ideas on how to eliminate them.

Habit #1. THE LEAP OF FAITH: “We have faith in our backup.”

Blind faith can be endearing, but not when it comes backing up a database. Backups
should be trusted only as far as they have been tested and verified.

Cures:
Have your DBAs verify that the backup is succeeding regularly, preferably using a
script that notifies them if there’s an issue.
Maintain a backup to your backup. DBAs should always use at least two backup
methods. A common technique is to use those old-fashioned exports as a backup
to the online backups.
Resource test recoveries as often as is practical. An early sign that your DBA team is
either overworked or not prioritizing correctly is having a quarter go by without a
test recovery. Test recoveries confirm that your backup strategy is on track, while
allowing your team to practice recovery activities so they can handle them effectively
when the time comes.

Habit #2. GREAT EXPECTATIONS: “It will work the way we expect it to. Let’s go
ahead.”

Although not user friendly in the traditional sense, Oracle is very power-user
friendly— once you’ve been working with it for a while, you develop an instinct for
the way things “should” work. Although that instinct is often right, one of the most
dangerous habits any DBA can possess is an assumption that Oracle will “just work”
the way it should.

Cures:
Inculcate a “practice, practice, practice” mentality throughout the organization. DBAs
need to rehearse activities in the safe sandbox of a test environment that’s designed
to closely mimic the behaviour of the production system. The organization needs to
allow the time and money for them to do so.
Pair inexperienced DBAs with senior ones whenever possible—or take them under
your own wing. New DBAs tend to be fearless, but learning from someone else’s
experience can help instill some much needed paranoia.
Review the plans for everything. It’s amazing how often DBAs say, “I’ve done that a
hundred times, I don’t need a plan.” If they’re heading into execution mode, they
absolutely need a plan.

Habit #3. LAISSEZ-FAIRE ADMINISTRATION: “We don’t need to monitor the system.
The users always let us know when something’s wrong.”

If you depend on the users to inform the DBA team that there’s a problem, it may
already be too late.

Cures:
Install availability and performance monitoring systems so that issues are identified
and resolved before they cause service-affecting failures.
Avoid post-release software issues by working with developers and testers to
ensure that all production-ready software is stable and high-performance.

Habit #4. THE MEMORY TEST: “We’ll remember how this happened, and what we did
to get things going again.”

It may seem impossible that a DBA team would forget a massive procedure that took
them weeks to get right, and yet it happens all the time. In order to prevent
recurring mistakes and take advantage of gained experience, documentation is
essential.

Cures:
Require that your DBAs maintain a comprehensive documentation library and
activity diary, including a significant level of rationale, syntax, and workflow detail.
Provide your team with groupware on your intranet so that these documents
become searchable in an emergency.
Enforce the discipline of documentation and check it periodically. Ask your DBAs:
When was this tablespace created, by whom, and with what SQL? What tasks were
performed on a particular day? If they can’t answer quickly, you’ll know they’ve gone
back to relying on memory.

Habit #5. THE BLAME GAME: “Don’t look at me, it’s the developer’s fault that SQL is
in production”

Some DBAs have a real “us versus them” mentality when it comes to developers in
their organization. They see themselves not as facilitators helping the developers
develop quality code from a database standpoint, but rather as guardians who
prevent poor-quality code from making it into production. This might seem like
semantics, but a confrontational relationship between developers and DBAs results
in a lack of developer initiative and significant slowdowns in release cycles.

Cures:
Select DBAs who understand it’s their responsibility to work as an integrated team
with the developers they support.
Cultivate a team attitude by structuring continuous DBA involvement in every project
rather than at review milestones.
Consider assigning an individual DBA in a developer support role. If it’s clearly in the
job description, there’s more motivation to do it well.

Habit #6. THE SOLO ACT: “I know what I’m doing and don’t need any help.”

Database administration is increasingly complex and even the most senior DBAs
can’t possibly know every last detail. DBAs have different specialties, which need to
be culled and utilized. When DBAs feel like they know, or should know, everything,
they don’t ask questions and miss out on valuable knowledge they could be gaining
from others.

Cures:
Foster a teamwork culture where it’s acceptable for DBAs to admit they don’t know
the answer and to ask for help.
Encourage your DBAs to seek out an outside peer group as a forum for
brainstorming and testing their assumptions. No single person can match the
expertise and experience of even a relatively small group.
Provide a safety net of tech resources such as reference materials, courses, and
outside experts or consultants on call.

Habit #7. TECHNO-LUST: “Things would work so much better if only we had…”

DBAs are often on top of the latest technology, which can help them do a
superlative job. But when the desire for new technology causes DBAs to recommend
unnecessary hardware purchases or software add-ons, costs tend to skyrocket
quickly—as do problems.

Cures:
Never upgrade your hardware infrastructure without first exhausting all tuning
opportunities. Remember, ten years ago enormous enterprises were run on servers
one-tenth the capacity—all thanks to necessity and skill.
Never consent to using advanced or new features until you’re well aware of the
ongoing maintenance commitment and resulting costs.
Watch out for DBA support software that presents friendly GUI interfaces for difficult
tasks. This type of interface allows a beginner DBA to act as an intermediate DBA
under certain circumstances, but simultaneously prevents that beginner from
learning the actual skills behind the tasks. Moreover, these tools tend to hide real
risks from the DBA, making potentially damaging activities as easy as point-and-
click.

Whether it takes a twelve-step program or one tiny adjustment, all of these deadly
DBA habits can be kicked. Of course, the first step is recognizing the problem. By
starting with this list and doing a careful inventory of the successes and failures in
your team’s database administration, you’ll be well on your way to finding a cure.

Paul Vallee
President, Founder

Since the company’s founding Paul has been Pythian’s key trouble-shooter for our
toughest technical challenges. Before launching http://www.pythian.com, he worked as an Oracle consultant bringing his
vast expertise to various companies across North America.

Paul has been an active participant in the Internet since 1989 and has worked
extensively on complex data environments and ERP implementations. He graduated
from Ottawa University with a B.Comm. in Management of Information Systems.

: 1:50 pm: adminMiscellaneous

Your thoughts are the currencies with which you exchange energy
with the universe

Do you believe that your thoughts have energy? Do you believe
that a place or an object can retain the energy of the people
that have come into contact with it? If you have ever entered an
old home and sensed the presence of its previous occupants, or
held an antique item in your hands and felt the history of it,
then you know the answers.

Scientists are just beginning to accept the truth about thought
energy, and have begun to study what many have known for
centuries. In fact some of today’s leading scientists in areas
of physics, biology, psychology and many other fields are
starting to recognize the importance of thought energy.

Positive thought energy in the form of collective meditation has
been scientifically proven to reduce violent crime!

In 1993 a study encouraged by one the world’s leading physicists
was undertaken in Washington D.C to determine if focused
meditation could have an effect on that city’s crime rate. The
results were astonishing. During the weeks that several
volunteers meditated, crime rates fell dramatically by 25
percent! This was no accident. This was scientifically validated
and proven to be an effective means of countering the criminal
inclinations of a very large group of people…an entire city in
fact.

All life is energy.

Thoughts have energy. Negative thoughts create negative events.
Positive thoughts create positive results. The energy of thought
is either stored in physical structures or is transmitted into
the universe, it never dies. Consider what this means. Think
about the ramifications.

Where did the clothes you are wearing come from, who made them?
Were they manufactured by depressed and impoverished people
working in appalling conditions for weeks to make the same
amount of money that you spend on a cup of coffee in the morning?

Who built the car that you drive? Was it built by disgruntled
and tired factory workers? Where some of those workers
alcoholics? Did some of them leave work, go home, beat their
wives and children and build your car the next morning?

Who built the house that you live in?

Who came into contact with the food that you ate today?

Starting to get the picture? Everything we come into contact
with can hold the thought energy of other people. Even the air
that we breathe carries the thought energy of those it surrounds.

What were the thoughts that have been injected into every part
of your life? How much has the thought energy of others affected
you?

Every thought interacts with the energy of the universe.
Negative thought looks for other negatives thought energies to
bind with. Eventually a matrix of negative thought energy is
created and forms a thought wave. These powerful negative
thought waves manifest themselves in our lives in the form of
poverty, crime, war, plagues and natural disasters. Negative
energy creates a vacuum, it detracts from the life giving nature
of the universe Negative thought waves come in many sizes and
have been known by many names, bad luck, misfortune, disaster,
evil, curses, etc. Call them what you will, the source of their
energy is the same. The source is us.

Positive thought energy also seeks out other positive energies.
If you are a source of positive thought energy, positive and
beneficial energy will return to you in many wonderful and
unexpected ways. Positive thought energy creates a surplus; it
is the surplus of positive thought energy that allows for the
creation of life.

You are the source and creator of all things. Everything that
happens in your life has a direct connection with the type of
energy that you are charging the universe with. You alone are
responsible for the type of energy created by your life.

Becoming aware of the power of your own thoughts is the most
important step in understanding how to handle the adverse
influence of the negative thought of others. Knowing the value
of positive thought energy allows us to become sensitive to
negative energy. We begin to notice it in our own speech, we see
it in our relationships, and we notice it in others.

Being aware is the key. Once we are aware of the negative
thought energy in our lives we can take measures to eliminate it
and replace it with beneficial, healing energy. It is as simple
as noticing it and dismissing it with our minds. A thought
enters our mind that we recognize as negative, we simply dismiss
it. By dismissing negativity we take away its power by not
allowing it to manifest further negativity in our lives.

There are of course many other techniques available to combat
negative thought energy and create positive abundance in our
lives; including focused meditation among others. The critical
first step however is simply being aware of the existence and
effects of these energies. Hopefully this brief article has
helped you to allow that first step to be taken.

: 1:43 pm: adminUniversity of Security

The following is a guide on how to remove spyware, adware, and pop-up ads using FREE tools ready to download anytime.

Don’t settle for advertisements that sell $30 software programs that CLAIM to remove all these annoyances, when in reality all they do is hog system resources and slow your computer down even more.

Now, of course there are people out there who have their own little utilities they use that are just “wonderful” for this kind of operation, but the following tools I use, to this day, to completely rid my computer of anything that would cause it to slow down or rig it with pop-up ad crap all over the place. Also included is information about a free anti-virus tool that can get rid of viruses even commercial anti-virus programs can’t detect!

So, onto the good stuff.

The first program is called SpyBot Search and Destroy. It can be downloaded at http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

You can also type in “SpyBot” at google.com and it’ll come up as the first link.

SpyBot is a great, FREE application used to get rid of spyware and adware. When you first install it, it’ll take you through a wizard that’ll set you up for first time use. This includes downloading updated lists, backing up your system, and even IMMUNIZATION of future malicious Internet Explorer scripts! Oh yea, did I mention it has a tool called the “Hosts” feature? You can do a google search on “hosts file” which will give you an interesting tip on how to block ads. Not many people know about this trick, and it’s a shame, because it WORKS. Anyway, SpyBot has an option that allows you to add a lists of marketing servers to your hosts lists which automatically blocks them. Go ahead and try it, the results will speak for themselves.

The next tool to download is Adaware (That’s “ad-A-ware” NOT “adware”). This can be downloaded at http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Once again, just type in “adaware” in google.com and click the first link.

Adware is another program like SpyBot that gets rid of spyware, adware, viruses, and all the small little annoyances that bury themselves into your system files and cause all sorts of trouble. Sometimes Adaware will catch things that NO OTHER application will find. Just do an update and system scan as if it were an anti-virus tool. You will be suprised at how many things this tool will pick up.

After you’ve removed all that crap from your system, the next step is to download a FREE anti-virus tool called AVG. This can be downloaded at http://www.grisoft.com

…or type “AVG” in google.com and click the first link. (Gotta love Google).

Just install, update, and do a system scan. This nifty little anti-virus tool also can schedule updates and system scans. So, be sure to configure that when you get the chance.

Another tool (well, more like an internet browser) that eliminates viruses, adware, spyware and pop-up ads is called FireFox. This can be downloaded at http://www.mozilla.org and the link is right there on the front page. You can also find it on google ;)

Well, that’s about it. These tools are all free. There are editions available that you have to pay for, but the free versions will get the job done just fine. Gotta love FREE stuff that WORKS, huh?

Matt Marose
Visit my blog for more articles and fun, interesting content!
http://marosenet.blogspot.com

: 12:59 pm: adminThe Technology Way

About a week ago I heard a comment from a senior manager that again reminded me of one of the challenges we face in the training field. He stated that he did not believe in e-learning, especially for salespeople. The comment did not surprise me. I have heard it from many others in his position. Back in July of 2000, in fact, the ASTD surveyed American trainers asking them who offered the most resistance to introducing e-learning into the workplace. The survey showed that managers (40%), followed by trainers themselves (25%), topped the list; followed by learners and technical support personnel (both 15%).

E-learning debunkers often quote user resistance as their primary concern. Given the option, they say, people prefer to be in a classroom surrounded by peers and facilitated by an expert. E-learning supporters, on the other hand, reason that people prefer the flexibility of the online environment, preferring not to have other students keep them from learning at their own pace. Right in the middle of these two arguments is where many companies either stop to develop an online training program or abandon the pursuit.

Granted, no single e-learning solution can cater to the needs of all learners. And no single online program can address the variables created by age, job skill, work environment, business strategies, and hundreds of other variables. But, to say that you do not believe in e-learning these days is like saying you do not believe in the Internet. And like the Internet, e-learning is here to stay, so it would serve us well to understand how and when to use it.

In all fairness to both camps, there are valid arguments for the debate. So let’s take time to talk about the most common “E-ssues” (sorry, couldn’t help myself) and ways to evaluate the role of e-learning within your organization.

Understanding What E-Learning Does…
Don’t get too wrapped up in the terminology. E-Learning, as defined in A Vision of E-Learning for America’s Workforce is “…instructional content or learning experiences delivered or enabled by electronic technology”. The focus of this and other institutional documents has been primarily on how to implement e-learning successfully into the workplace. According to The Commission on Technology and Adult Learning the focus is primarily on adult-centered and work-related e-learning designed to “increase workers’ knowledge and skills so they can be more productive, find and keep high-quality jobs, advance in their careers, and have a positive impact on the success of their employers, their families and their communities”.

So, before you evaluate a “method”, make it your purpose to assess how your instructional content will increase knowledge and productivity, retain workers, advance careers, and make employees successful in every area of endeavor. The delivery is secondary to the purpose. By definition, if you are already putting training in Power Point presentations and making it available for viewing from your intranet you are doing e-learning.

Addressing User Acceptance Issues…
Beyond the decision of implementing e-learning is the question of whether or not students will use it. It is reported that when employees are required to register for e-learning, only about 32% actually do so. And amongst those that do register, 50 to 80% dropout is not uncommon. Resistance to technology is nothing new, but if we are going to effectively support our company in their effort to reduce cost we have to deal with the problem head on.

Jonathan Feldman, Chief Technical Manager of the Chatham County Government in Savannah, GA has a great solution. Mr. Feldman deals with the common problem of keeping his help desk and tech support employees knowledgeable. To retain top staff, he needs to train at least a few times a year; more when it involves cutting-edge projects. Because most in-depth classes are not held regularly in his part of the country, training his team also means expenses for class fees, travel, per-diem, lodging, and loss of productivity.

“One standard cost-cutting measure is to (reluctantly) drop some instructor-led classes, sometimes in favor of CBT (computer-based training)” says Mr. Feldman. “But I hate that. I find CBT to be no better than reading a book…”

He continues by saying that a recent experience with an e-learning company in Phoenix helped solve this problem. The company uses Internet groupware in conjunction with traditional conference-call technology. Students can listen to the instructor on-line, raise their hand, ask questions (both spoken and through chat) and even have a little interactive fun on the virtual whiteboard. “… the best thing about this method”, he says, “is that I could lay back in bed and attend class — even when I had the flu.”

Creating the Best Solution…
Finally, remember that e-learning is evolving. The “ideal” training for you may be an instructor-led class at a local Starbucks with a sheet of paper and a course manual. But don’t underestimate the benefits of technology. While using slide presentations is not a necessity, we have become more and more accustomed to them and enjoy the benefits of richer media and visual effects. Ultimately the success of your training depends on the feasibility of the delivery and e-learning can help facilitate that.

The best solution is often a blended solution. That means taking advantage of the many tools (technology based and conventional) available to you. The most basic instructional design model includes assessment measures to determine the method of learning delivery best suited for your audience. Maybe going back to the basics is the best way to end this debate. I can tell you were you can take a great online course on the subject. ;)

Julio Quintana - EzineArticles Expert Author

Julio is a writer and speaker based in Weston, Florida. Learn more about his practice and about The Merge Point Method at http://www.mergepoint.org.

: 12:11 am: adminMiscellaneous

I’m sure most of you have heard of Zig Ziglar International Sales Guru. Well in one of Zig’s weekly newsletters, there were a number of comments about the habits of well-organised people which I couldn’t resist sharing with you.

What are the habits of well-organised people?

Can a person be ‘taught’ skills that will make them organised, or is that a quality you either possess or lack?

We asked those questions of our readers and here are some of their responses:

“I think that natural abililty has to be coupled with good training to fully develop skills such as being organised.”

“Thankfully, organisation skills are learned. The first requirement is DESIRE. The second is WORK! By consistently using such tools as a well thought out set of goals, a planner and a PRIORITISED daily “to do” list, I have made a positive difference in my personal and professional life.”

“A well-organised person reviews their actions each day. They assess where mistakes were made, identifying ways to eliminate those mistakes in the future. They assess areas for improvement. They also plan out their day ahead of time. These habits can be learned by anyone.”

“Improving your organisation skills is teachable and there are hundreds of tools to help you achieve that end. But first I have to “want” to learn that skill. I have to see the need and the resultant advantage to me and my business and then I will be willing to learn a new skill.”

“Orderliness is a character trait. Organisation is an outcome of that trait. Character qualities are learned behaviours that develop throughout our whole lives - not just while we are children.”

“Yes, everybody can be taught organising one’s life. It’s only a question of changing habits, however, everything is connected. You cannot be a complete mess in your personal life and expect to be perfectly organised in your business life.”

So you see it doesn’t matter who or what you are, anybody can learn the basic fundamental skills and experience the daily benefits of being organised.

It’s just a case of recognising that you need to improve in that area and as mentioned in one of the comments, you have to have the desire to change. Of course the next thing you have to do is take action!

Then you too can experience the benefits of being organised such as having more time to do what you want to, improved confidence, having more control over your life, reducing your stress and feeling good!

It’s all up to you.

About The Author

Lorraine Pirihi is Australia’s Personal Productivity Specialist and Leading Life Coach. Her business The Office Organiser specialises in showing small business owners and managers, how to get organised at work so they can have a life! Lorraine is also a dynamic speaker and has produced many products including “How to Survive and Thrive at Work!”

To subscribe to her free ezine visit www.office-organiser.com.au

This article may be reproduced providing it is published in it’s entirety, including the author’s bio and all links. For further information please contact Lorraine Pirihi: lorraine@office-organiser.com.au