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How To Energise Your Career To Continue Improving

You’ve got meetings to attend. Deadlines to meet. Errands to run. It’s hard to grow your career and expand your abilities in the midst of your daily grind, but if you don’t take the initiative, no one’s going to do it for you. Whether you feel like your career development is lagging or you’re chugging along nicely but want to give yourself that extra edge, here are a few steps you can take to make sure your career continues on the path to greatness.

October 14, 2011
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Plan Your Projects Like You’re Writing A Public Launch Presentation

When you outline your work and try to put together a task list, it’s generally pretty dry. If you were to finish your work and give a fancy Apple-esque keynote, however, it would be revolutionary. Github developer Zach Holman suggests that planning your projects like an exciting presentation might help you keep that same excitement while you’re actually doing the work.

October 8, 2011
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Five Things To Remember When Planning That Next Big Project

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When you’re neck-deep in the preliminary stages of any big project, it’s important to stay focused on what needs to happen to give it the best possible chance of success… or even a graceful failure, should events take an unexpected turn.

September 29, 2011
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Plan Your Career Like You Would A Four-Phase Project

Many of us are great at carrying out work or individual projects from start to finish — the whole shebang. For our life-long careers and dreams, however, we’re less likely to have a plan with concrete milestones and steps in place. Mapping out where you want to go with your career, however, could help you achieve greater success.

September 13, 2011
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TheBestDay.com Uses Votes To Plan Your Next Social Event

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In theory, being online should make planning a group event easier, but you can waste a lot of time on email or Facebook back-and-forth debating possible ideas. TheBestDay.com aims to streamline that process by creating a central location where you can ask friends to vote on potential options.

August 31, 2011
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Schooltraq Is An Academic Planner Developed By Students

Most students struggle with the task of organising their class assignments and keeping track of ever-changing due dates. That’s where Schooltraq comes in, a new service built by students for students to help track classes, assignments and due dates on a single dashboard.

August 25, 2011
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Ask LH: How Do I Create A Business Plan?

Dear Lifehacker, I’ve got a great idea for a new business, but I want to make sure that I set it up right and I might need some financing help to get started. What do I need to include in the business plan? Is there an easy way to create one?

August 23, 2011
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Oobafit Builds Exercise, Diet And Shopping Plans For You

The process of building a personal fitness, diet and weight loss plan can be daunting enough to stop many people before they start. Oobafit is a new web service that can help you get in shape by automatically building a diet and exercise plan for you to start with, based on your answers to a few questions.

August 21, 2011
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Keeping A Time Diary Can Identify Patterns That Affect Your Productivity

A time diary can help you track good and bad productivity habits in the same way expense tracking can help identify spending habits. Like a spending diary, you will have to maintain a time diary for a few weeks before patterns emerge, but the end result can be well worth it.

August 19, 2011
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Ambition Becomes Counter-Productive When You Expect Things To Go As Planned

“Ambition becomes counter-productive when you pursue your goals without the humbling realisation that things seldom go as planned.” ~ Scott Belsky

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