FruitulTime is pleased to announce the release of FruitfulTime TaskManager. FruitfulTime Taskmanager is an easy to use to do list software that helps you to keep track of your to do list in a more elegant way than pen and paper.

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Many people find it hard to get out of the vicious circle of creating debt. Debt is a common problem. It puts extra pressure and stress on the person leading to other vices such as lying, alcoholism and possibly stealing to settle debt. If you are in debt here are some tips that will help you handle it.

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The members at Steve Pavlina’s forum started this interesting discussion about what are your new year’s resolutions. Everyone was mentioning what are his/her targets for the New Year that will start very soon. While I was reading this thread, I thought “Can a company have its New Year’s resolutions?” Why not? I have never seen something of this sort but I think it is something that each company should do.

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I have read a lot about the Job Security Myth and how untrue it is that companies offer job security. Recently, I encountered Lawrence Cheok’s blog. This blog offers advice on how one should strike a balance between work and leisure. I highly recommend that you read the Stop working hard for job security post by Lawrence Cheok for a detailed explanation about the old fashioned way how to make money and ways how to have job security. Lawrence is the author of the Money Mindset Series.  I have personally subscribed to Lawrence Cheok’s RSS feed.

Ever noticed that 20% of your cupboard is used 80% of the time? Or ever wondered about your mobile phone book? You  call or sms 20% of the numbers, 80% of the time. Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist noticed this imbalance of effect. How can such a rule help us be more productive?

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Are you a freelancer? Ever though about being a freelancer? I came across a very motivating article from HRWorld that lists 101 reasons why you should do freelancing. One of them is the following:

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“Do this and you’ll get that” makes people focus on the “that” not the “this.” Contrary to what most of us think (including me before I read this article) rewards don’t work. In his post called, For Best Results, Forget the Bonus, Alfie Kohn gives several reasons why bonuses and financial incentives do not work. I found this post interesting because it justifies why a management procedure, that has been applied for several years, does not work.

Stopping a habit is not easy and one encounters various levels of difficulty in trying to do so. These difficulty levels depend on what the habit is, for how long has it been part of the victim’s life and how often the victim exercised the habit.

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Everyone faces serious decisions in life. Some of us face serious decisions more often than others. For instance, it is the job of a manager to be a decision maker, so naturally a manager will face decisions all the time. No matter how many times you have to face a serious decision, it is important to know how to handle such a situation when the time comes.

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“Aim high son. That way you make sure that you will be successful.” - Myth!

As from a young age we were brought up with this philosophy which I think is flawed. I think that aiming high does not have an affect on how much you achieve. It’s how much you work which has a direct influence on what you achieve. Some people think that by setting impossible targets they will work more. I think it has the opposite influence, at least on me for sure. When I miss a deadline, I tend to get down and take sometime to recover. That time will be wasted time and will affect the next deadline. Also missing a deadline will decrease your confidence in reaching the next deadline.

Just my humble opinion about aiming high: next time try to be moderate in what you aim for or else you can end up lowering your morale without knowing.