Is making excuses is your first thing when you lose deadlines?
- Will you reason out your failure, rather than trying to finish the project?
- Was your failure in finishing the job unavoidable?
- Do you think finishing the job is important?
- Is a plan put down to finish a job really soon?

You should start taking responsibility for your failures. If you ever think of giving a excuse again, think about the great American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's...

Here is a quiz that would help you identify the problem areas where your negative attitude is keeping you off from taking the charge of life. Simply answer a 'yes' for the statements that depict you.

a. I get discouraged as & when I think about the problems I am going through.

b. Most oft I wonder as to why my life isn't as rewarding as it could have been; several people around me are living a far better & satisfactory life than me.

c. I have...

The Virtual Assistant is a relatively new phenomenon but it is nonetheless catching on pretty quick. Although business executives often have a “Personal Assistant” at work, traditionally this role is for business tasks only and rarely do they cross the point into personal projects. This is not so with a Virtual Assistant who can carry out both business and personal tasks quickly and efficiently from a virtual location. Now anyone and everyone can benefit from having their...

Still finding 24 hours aren’t enough? We discover how to make the most out of your day.

Clear away all Clutter to become More Organized

While there’s a strong argument for not allowing total chaos to reign, refusing to have any mess around at all can result in things being lost. Yes, you probably need to throw the nine receipts in your purse away, but what about the tenth receipt you need to keep so you can return the top that doesn’t quite fit? Also,...

Time management is basically about being focused. The Pareto Principle, also known as the '80:20 Rule' states that 80% of efforts that are not time managed or unfocused generates only 20% of the desired output. However, 80% of the desired output can be generated using only 20% of a well time managed effort. Although the ratio '80:20' is only arbitrary, it is used to put emphasis on how much is lost or how much can be gained with time management.

Some people view time...

Do you know that there are time thieves everywhere and are trying to steal away of your time? It is sad to know that not many people take any action on these time thieves and some even not aware of it. As Thomas Edison said “Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose”. Time is non-renewable resource. There is no point of keep saving time but at the same time someone are stealing away your time. Therefore, your...

Nobody has yet come up with a solution as to "why do most people procrastinate?" Even at present, procrastination is considered to be the biggest mysteries surrounding human beings. Although, most people know that the solution to such problems lie deep within them, in reality, they would not admit them. It is not only counterproductive to put off an inevitable task, but it also causes a great deal of stress, especially in those cases, when a person hardly has the patience to...

According to statistics done in United Kingdom, one third of workers will stay in their office until at least 8pm and the trend of working late is growing every years. Why is it so? Below are some of the causes of this problem.

1. “I want it now” culture.
It is quite common “I want it now” culture in today society where fast service is paramount. Every company or organization is trying to provide the fastest service possible or else they will lose...

While higher authorities in any office are the decision makers, and the top brass, it is the employees lower down the rungs that actually do the company's hard work. It is the employees who file paperwork, photocopy thousands of pages when required and sometimes have to do a large amount of mundane work. Needless to say, the happiness of these employees ensures the successful running of the company.

It is a well-known fact that a nine to five job can and does stress people...

There are several reasons why standing up works. Here they are:

When two people are conversing, one sitting and one standing, the one standing is in the most powerful position to have control - there are exceptions; people with high status positions are typically not dominated by a standing subordinate; sometimes high status people who choose to be ruthless with their need to dominate leave a person standing just to assert their position power.

You are asserting...