My mind is like my Internet browser. I have 19 tabs open, 3 are frozen and I can’t tell where the music is coming from (anonymous).Can you relate?I could too until I found Toby. Toby is a free extension for the Chrome browser that lets you:Group popular URLs you visit and Then … [Read more...] about Is your mind like your browser with 19 tabs open? Here’s relief.
Can you relate to this cartoon?Are you inundated with to do’s, tasks and projects?Are you in a tumult trying to find that email, that idea, that …. Thing?Do you get, as my friend calls it, sick pit, that awful feeling in the pit of your stomach when you think about all the things you … [Read more...] about Sync and swim
“Lee-Anne we’re not very technically savvy. Could you send us just the agenda from the learning resources PDF package you just sent?” said a client to me recently.Perfect timing I thought, as I was writing this post.Need to take out one or more pages from a PDF document like my … [Read more...] about Be gone all PDF foibles. Poof!
Remember when you found that jaw-dropping image that was perfect for your next newsletter or report?Or when you discovered the perfect website, blog or recipe online?Or when you tripped over that online video that made you laugh from the gut and snort from your nose?If I asked you to … [Read more...] about Digging Diigo- your path to online ease and efficiency
“You can’t develop a side thing, lob it over the fence and expect it to be picked up,” said my lovely coffee companion Steven Webb, Senior Advisor, Change Management for UNHABITAT.I believe we’re all change agents, so when I got the chance to site down with a change master maestro, I nabbed … [Read more...] about Change management musings from a change master maestro
The rain poured down so hard it formed a veil, one that I couldn’t see through but I hoped my driver could. As we pulled up to the UN Base in Entebbe, Uganda, he tried to get the car as close to the building as possible so I wouldn’t get soaked.Wishful thinking.I was in Entebbe to do a … [Read more...] about The roof collapsed, the venue was flooded, I was soaked and I was about to give a workshop
This month marks 20 years of me being self-employed. Can you believe it?! I’ve got so many reasons to celebrate, not the least of which is you dear reader. So let’s look back on 20 years & get the party started. All month you’ll see extra goodies, gifts & great resources. The same year I … [Read more...] about 20 years of Learning & Development; Rachel’s haircut, Google & me
The latest Rock.Paper.Scissors Inc. e-newsletter reviewed Douglas Merrill's funky book 'Getting Organized in the Google Era'. Here are some resources to help you stay on top instead of feeling smothered under by things to do.Check out Douglas Merrill's book here- it's an easy, informative, … [Read more...] about Resources to help you get organized in the Google era
The trick is for the (scissor) blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
— Mary Jo Putney
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
— Amelia Earhart
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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