How to Avoid Losing Your Temper When Preparing Your PowerPoint Slides

Posted by J.J. on November 25, 2009 under GTD, Presentations, Productivity | Read the First Comment

If you have presentation to do for your meeting or your coaching sessions, preparing slides are simply time consuming as it requires patience and hard work. Preparing presentation slides isn’t about “copycat” work. It’s about putting the right messages or ideas into your slides. Your slides would end up become “junks” if you include all chucks of information into your slides.

If you want to create simple and efficient slides – it would take longer time to complete depending how many slides you need to include in your presentation.

You can actually prepare your slides fast and avoid losing your temper – it’s all about strategy.

How do you actually do it?

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How to Create Your Own Four-Quadrate Weekly Goal Plan

Posted by J.J. on November 18, 2009 under GTD, Personal development, Productivity, Self development | Read the First Comment

You could say that in a month, you would be able to complete as many tasks as possible. However, in the end, you felt disappointed when were able to achieve little tasks and you started to blame few things:

• You had set goals that are impossible to reach
• You had set goals that could take longer time to succeed

Let’s talk about basics before you proceed further. In a month, there are four weeks – one week consists of 7 days; or 30-31 days in a month. First thing, you need to have three basic things before you proceed:

• A pencil or a pen
• A piece of white paper
• A ruler

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