Business and Money Tips

Now you too can start your day right with the following 7 mindful thoughts: 1.  Take Out Filler Words in Your Daily Conversation.   Filler words and phrases are sounds that have no meaning, they are there to fill in spaces while we are thinking.   The most common fillers are 'so', 'well', 'like', 'you know', 'how come' and 'sort of'.  Filler words reflect a unclear mind that just wants so speak.  Imagine a conversion full of filler words, what a mindless conversation it is! 2.  When Eating, Just Eat .   Many people like to gobble their food, and the more they like a food, the faster they eat it.  Many people are afraid that if they don't fast, that good food may be gone.   The point is until you adopt mindful eating, you are not absorbing the full benefits of the food you're eating and you're just wasting food!  In Japan, it is very rude to eat and talk at the same time, and munching a food while listening to a le...

To be rich and happy, you need to make others rich.  What better way to make others rich other than with your goods and services? Yet many salespeople give up when the prospect says no.  Many get de-motivated easily, and could not pull themselves up to do that one more phone call, one more visit and one more follow-up e-mail. To make it easier for you to do one more call, try one of the following 5 ways: Tell the prospect that your CRM system prompts you to make that follow-up call, and you have to make that call or the system will send alert to the top management Pretend you have called the wrong person, but since the prospect is already on the line, you will just check with him one more time on the enquiry he made previously Tell the prospect that the top management has made a change to your proposal or quotation , and you are calling him to communicate that in person Just call him, use an upbeat tone full of enthusiasm and the prospect will be moved Don't c...

Yahoo News reported on 24 January 2015 that Singapore workers work the longest hours in the world. Based on their lower productivity levels this means they’re either doing the same amount or even less in a longer amount of time than their counterparts in other countries. How can this nation that is among the most advanced in the world be actually less productive than many less advanced nations?  If we want to be rich and happy, how can we work not lesser hours, but actually less hours?  There are 5 ways that we can all work less hours and yet achieve more: Work with More Heart .  Many people work hard, but what they do are without any feel and they are just going through the motion.  As a result, there is little meaning in what they do.  Look at many of the silly meetings where people are just finger pointing and you'll know what I'm talking about.  To know how to work heart, not work hard, read this article . Be More Productive . There are more th...