Apologies for not posting an ‘inspiration blog’ for a few weeks, I have been concentrating on the Great Successful People launch.

So this post has numerous excellent articles:

10 Quick and Easy Ways to Say Thank You

Saying thank you doesn’t need be be a big production. In fact, most
of the time, it shouldn’t be. “Thank you” should be a quick and natural
response when someone helps you out or does you a favour.

Here are a few quick and easy ways to say thank you

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This is a top notch FREE eBook which covers every aspect of procrastination (and you don’t have to sign up for it!).

Ask These Questions to Make Sure Your Boss Won’t Suck

In an interview, the questions you ask are just as important as the questions your potential boss asks you.
They can determine what the relationship will be like and they can
determine whether or not working for this person is really right for
you.

How long does a position last?

Before developing an exit strategy, you need to figure out how long the position is likely to last.

10 Ways to stay productive

Once you’ve started leading a successful productive lifestyle, it’s
very important to be able to stick with it. All that hard work getting
there, and now you need to be able to continue getting things done.
Here are 10 ways to stay productive in the long term.

Quick fixes for image problems

You know that people make snap judgments about you based on your
appearance. But it turns out that most of those judgments are right.

Better to be a Generalist or Expert?

What’s your view?

As ever, I hope these postings make a difference.

Andrew

A good filing system that keeps files in a well arranged order is always an important business requirement, but often ignored by most businesses. Even though many businesses start with a plan and a system, they fail in the way. Both digital files and hard copy files require constant attention. Here are some tips for managing your office files.

• Like all times, the first requirement is a plan, which tells others about how to manage the files, and which provides idea for categorizing or numbering or labeling files.
• The second is a filing system; for digital files a database and for paper files drawers.
• Categorize files into different groups; according to how often you need them, alphabetical order, with respect to days or labels, type of content (financial, accounting, product specific, employee specific), etc.
• Ensure that you have enough storage places for your current files and for future files.
• It is good idea to use colored folders to different categories or for differentiating files in same category.
• Use constantly updated desktop application or spread sheet that help in finding file numbers or category, and that enables labeled search.
• Allow only one, not more than two, persons to handle the file; if all have access then your systems can fall in less than a week.
• Do a weekly or monthly, according to the vastness of files, check to ensure all things are in right track.

Jim Ambras tried to keep his expectations reasonable. Ambras, a veteran of Web companies including search engine AltaVista, was preparing to unveil a company called NotchUp at the DEMO conference in Palm Desert, Calif. His goal was to have 1,000 people signed up in time for his Jan. 29 presentation at the annual showcase for new products and services. NotchUp takes a novel approach to online job search, matching potential employees who are willing to be paid for a job interview with companies willing to pay.

A week before taking the DEMO stage, NotchUp had attracted a meager 200 users. Pressure to add to those ranks was high in the runup to DEMO, the storied launchpad of such tech legends as the original PalmPilot and Salesforce.com. It didn’t help that the company was only just emerging from so-called stealth mode, the phase when startups try to stay off the radar screen of potential copycats. The site is password protected, and the only way to join NotchUp was to get invited by a member. “Our goal was obviously too high,” Ambras says.

So NotchUp came up with a quick, seemingly easy, way to boost its membership: enabling users to instantly recruit contacts from business social network LinkedIn. The membership drive underscores the benefits and pitfalls of doing business in an online arena where, with a few mouse clicks, a Web surfer can instantly share information, some of it unwanted, with scores of fellow Netizens. Fallout from the move has generated media buzz and lured investors’ interest — but it could also tarnish the company’s reputation and incite a row with LinkedIn.

The Snowball Effect

NotchUp had its membership “Aha” moment after a former colleague of Ambras’ joined, then proceeded to invite 100 of his own friends. The new member complained at having to type in…

Sit down, plug yourself in, look at the screen. The virtual
doctor will see you now.

The future face of healthcare was unveiled yesterday, a virtual-
reality doctor’s office in a box — a dramatic breakthrough in
telemedicine, currently being trialled in a Scottish hospital, which
is set to revolutionize the delivery of healthcare.

Within the next few years the diagnostic booth could be fully
functioning and serving Scotland’s remotest communities,
transforming the way that patients in the country’s most isolated
areas can be assessed by both doctors and specialist consultants
without ever seeing each other face to face.

Using the latest advances in computer and medical technology,
doctors will be able to examine and diagnose the conditions of
patients living hundreds of miles away — monitoring a patient’s
heartbeat, their temperature, blood pressure, and carrying out a
number of detailed medical examinations without having to leave
their surgeries.

And eventually it is hoped that the virtual-reality surgeries
could be housed in dedicated booths available for use by the public
in community hospitals, community centers, and even supermarkets -
improving the triage assessments currently being made by the out-of-
hours NHS 24 service.

The system, known as “Health Presence”, has been developed by the
leading American technology company Cisco and is being assessed in a
series of world-first patient trials at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in
partnership with the Scottish Center for Telehealth and NHS
Scotland.

Currently the system is being tested in a small room within the
accident and emergency center at the Royal Infirmary with the
“virtual-reality” doctor in a separate room only a few yards away.

The first fully fitted booth is expected to go on trial at a more
remote location later this year — probably within a dedicated
medical facility in Aberdeen — but eventually it is hoped that
hundreds of virtual-reality GP pods could be used to cover
the country .

Mr James Ferguson, an emergency consultant and a leading
specialist in telehealth,…

For rabid fans of the New York Giants and New England Patriots, this Sunday’s Super Bowl won’t be just a game. It may be a health hazard. Heart attacks and other cardiac emergencies doubled in Munich, Germany, when that nation’s soccer team played in World Cup matches, a new study reports.

While history suggests European soccer fans can get a bit more worked up than the average American football fan, doctors think there are some valid warnings to be shared.

“I know a little bit about the Super Bowl,” study author Dr. Gerhard Steinbeck of Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich said in a telephone interview. “It’s reasonable to think that something quite similar might happen.”

He and his colleagues present their results in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine. They blamed emotional stress for the heart problems, but they note that lack of sleep, overeating, wolfing down junk food, boozing and smoking might have played a role too.

Previous studies suggest that events like earthquakes and war can boost the risk of heart problems. Findings for soccer have been inconsistent.

The new work “confirms something people have been highly skeptical about … that soccer (would) produce that kind of emotional investment that might trigger a heart attack,” said psychologist Douglas Carroll of the University of Birmingham in England.

“People who are not interested in sport find it very difficult to comprehend this,” said Carroll, who in 2002 reported a link between World Cup soccer and heart attacks in England.

The new paper included heart attacks, cardiac arrests, episodes of irregular heartbeat and activations of automatic implanted defibrillators. The researchers noted the number of cases reported in the greater Munich area during World Cup competition in Germany in the summer of 2006. They compared that to the totals for similar periods in 2003 and 2005, and for several…

Gateway has two new quad-core computers — and one of them features a dual HD/Blu-ray optical drive and a terabyte drive.

The GM5664 and GT5662 will bring AMD’s Phenom processor, as well as DirectX 10 Technology, to the company’s GM and GT series. Just as the high-definition DVD format war may be winding down, the GM5664 offers what the company calls a Hybrid-SuperMulti drive so users can enjoy either Blu-ray or high-definition (HD) DVDs. It also can write any kind of DVD or CD.

Entertainment Hubs

Glenn Jystad, Gateway’s senior manager for consumer desktops, said the new quad-core machines marry “high-performance with affordability.” The new models are designed as entertainment hubs for watching live TV and offer heightened realism for video games. Both machines feature the ATI Radeon HD 2400XT graphics card with HDMI high-definition output, and both ship with the Windows Vista Home Premium operating system.

The GM5664 is being touted by Gateway as an entertainment powerhouse for extreme gaming, digital photo and video editing, watching TV or movies, and storing media assets. Sporting an AMD Phenom 9600 Processor at 2.3 GHz, 3GB of memory and a 2MB L3 cache, it also contains an integrated TV tuner with remote control and HD capability. It can act as a TV or digital video recorder with viewing, pausing and recording.

A standard one-terabyte hard drive gives even the biggest collector a lot of space to fill up, and a SmartCopy button enables easy photo filing and transfers.

Commonplace Terabyte Drives?

The GT5662 isn’t exactly a slouch, either. It has an AMD Phenom 9500 at 2.2 GHz, 3GB of memory a 2 MB L3 cache and a half-terabyte SATA II hard drive running at 7200 RPM. Both Phenom processors are part of the AMD LIVE series designed for entertainment.

With the GT5662 retailing at about $750 and the…