Take a look at this nice little slideshow (link to www.inc.com) giving you 23 ways to be happier at work. It’s clear that we shouldn’t compare ourselves to others, that we all have the same amount of time and that we should smile and laugh more often. But it’s nice to be reminded now and again! 🙂
Okay, you might not need this word too often, however I do have a group of clients who work with this product. We’re talking here about ‘enamel’, which can be translated as ‘Lack’. Follow this link and click on the loudspeaker icon to hear how the word is pronounced correctly!
Abbreviations (those are the shortened forms of words) can be difficult to understand. Only use them if you know that your readers will understand them. You might even like to spell them out the first time you use them in an email or letter if you really want to use them later in the text.
Instead of … write …
approx. approximately or about
asap as soon as possible
BTW by the way
DIY do it yourself
Fyi for your information
HQ headquarters
max. maximum
min. minimum
24/7 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
The factory foreman inspected a shipment of crystal vases leaving the plant, and approached his new packer. He put his arm around the man’s shoulder and said, “Well, Ole, I see you did what I asked. You stamped the top of each box, ‘This Side Up, Handle With Care.’”
“Yes sir,” the worker replied. “And just to make sure, I stamped it on the bottom too.”
Managing your time
You’ll find lots of ideas on how to improve your time management skills in Harold Taylor’s checklist. I’m working on number 21 at the moment: “Don’t keep shuffling papers; handle each item only once whenever possible. Do it, scrap it, file it, delegate it or schedule a time to do it later.” And you?
