Professors – Taking Attendance Without Wasting Time and Sometimes Even Encouraging Student Learning

18th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments

You might be required by your department, college, or university take attendance. Or, possibly there are particular students (such as student athletes) who have to document attendance in their courses – and you are the one who has to keep those records. On the other hand, you may not be required to record attendance but » Read More

Increasing, Maintaining, and Protecting Your Emotional Energy So You Can Lower Your Stress Level

17th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments

Doc Childre of HeartMath® said: Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we’ve been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs locked within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them. How do you » Read More

Increase Your Peace, Positivity, and Productivity by Putting “Pockets” in Your Life

16th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments

Could you use more peace in your life? What about more positivity? How about productivity – any need for that? Then think about putting “pockets” in your life.  First, let me explain the pocket concept and how it came together for me. About this time last year, because there was a lot of football being watched » Read More

Chaos and Order – Enemies Or Opposites? 5 Steps to Increase Your Productivity

15th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments

Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites.” ~Richard Garriott, computer-game developer You’ve heard it-and maybe even said it: “I know where everything is….it just looks messy.” Chaos in your work space (or home space) is not reasonable, sensible, or productive. Those who believe that they are organized, efficient, and highly effective when they live and/or work » Read More

Imagine Calm in Your Life – Purposely Put in Pockets and See What Happens

14th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments

Do you ever run around like a chicken with your head cut off? Or maybe you would describe your behavior as acting like your hair is on fire? Either way, it’s not a good look! If you use consciously and deliberately put in “pockets,” that is, the special protected spaces that give your room to breathe, » Read More

10 Tips For Getting “Unstuck” When You Are Writing

13th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments

Do you ever get “stuck” when you’re writing? If you are a writer, of course you do. Here are ten tips to help you get unstuck. Go for a walk. There is something about moving your physical self that can help your brain also get moving. Start writing at a difference place in the manuscript. Sometimes you » Read More

5 Tips For Productively Editing and Revising Your Writing

12th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments

Writing is not a one-step process. It not only has many steps but the steps – really phases – are recursive. You start to compose and then you decide you need to do some additional research. Then you compose some more and decide you need to start “fixing” some of your writing, and then…well. You » Read More

Minimizing the Effect That Negative People Have on YOU and Making Your Position Clear

11th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments

Let us say that you have decided to close the door to negative people (figuratively, of course). What is tough about this decision is that sometimes the negative people work in our offices (or live in our homes or are related to us in some way). Deciding to “close the door” on the people who » Read More

Ten Tips For Preparing For Times When You Get Sick – Notifying Classes, Colleagues, and Committees

10th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments

No one ever plans to be sick. No one ever thinks he or she will need to cancel class, appointments, or other commitments. But…it happens. Here are ten productive ways to be ready “just in case.” When you record an appointment in your planner (either paper or electronic), include the person’s email address and phone number. » Read More

Making Decisions and Making Changes

9th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments

Do you sometimes wish that things were different for you? Have you often thought of, “If only…”? What if you combined those two ideas – and turned them into actions you could take? Let us start with you making your own list of things that you would like to be different. It might be relationships you » Read More

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