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Two Computer Time Tips
by Dave Miller
Today I am offering two tips to save you time everyday as you surf the web or check emails.
Search Tip:
F3 That’s it F3. It’s the top line on your keyboard you pay little attention to. F3 allows you to search the webpage you are on. So often I get to a page and want to search the page for a keyword. I’ll search for something on google and it directs me to a page but I have no idea where on the massive page the information is hidden. Now that I discovered F3 the search is over.
When I get to the page I hit F3 and a search box pops up allowing me to type in a word or two. It then highlights the words.
Try it right now. Hit F3 and in the search box type in the word “hit”. If it is working as it should you will see all the words “hit” on this page.
Email unsubscribe:
Emails are important but they can make life cluttered and consume too much time. Take a bit of time now and pick a couple emails you get daily, look on the bottom of the page and click the unsubscribe button. It take a minute but stops that company from blasting you again the next day. Do this on a few emails today and again tomorrow. After a few days you will have less emails and never miss those annoying emails. Plus your life will be less distracting.
I hope these tips help you.
If you have your own tips please post them in the comments
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Walk and Talk – How to Give Salesmen Your Time
by Dave Miller
A salesman called me and said he wants to stop by and present some new products. I was available and agreed to meet with him. The salesman was one I enjoyed and I did want to hear about his products yet I wasn’t sure I wanted to take an hour out of my day. How would I handle my precious time?
So I decided to make a proposal. If he wanted my time he could walk as he presented. If he presented something I didn’t have interest in, at least I’d get some exercise out of the deal.
I called the salesman and asked him if he was interested in walking as we talked. He agreed willingly.
He arrived dressed appropriately as it was a blustery day. We strolled up the road talking about his products and the benefits they provided me. It was cold and windy so we only walked about a half a mile. After we returned to the shop we finished up. As he was leaving he said how invigorated he felt. He appreciated the opportunity to get a bit of exercise while on the road.
I’ve done it and it worked out great, and I’ll do it again.
My new answer to the question, “You have a minute?” Is “Sure, Let’s walk”
Procastination
The reason I haven’t posted a blog lately.
A picture is worth a thousand words. The lack of a picture in this case is worth a few thousand.
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Warren Buffet Recommends Buying Homes as Investments
by Dave Miller
In an interview last week Warren Buffet told young investors to go out and buy single family homes. He explained how it is a way to short the dollar.
Here is the interview: Warren Buffet on Buying Homes
His down side to buying a couple hundred thousand houses is the management aspect. I’m not sure why he considers that to be a problem as there is good money in management. He could just buy his own management company and make a profit there also.
Yet management continues to be the biggest hang up for people contemplating their first purchase. And as they buy more that fear diminishes, or so I tend to find it. My findings are this; if you are purchasing detached single family homes you are in different category than multi-family or apartment style homes. The type of people renting single family homes tend to be more responsible. For one, they can afford the higher rent; this tells you a lot about the person.
So if you can buy single family homes in the country or in a nice development at a good price I agree with Warren Buffet; it should be a great investment over the years.
Buy single Family homes
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10 passwords not use to avoid being hacked
by Dave Miller
In this day and age it’s extremely important to protect yourself online. The biggest mistake people make is making their passwords easy. By making them simple they are easy remember but make you vulnerable.
Top 10 Worst Passwords:
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4 Tips For Password Strength
1. Your password should be at least 8 characters long.
2. Your Password should contain a mix of numbers, upper case letters, lower case letter, and special characters (!@#$%).
3. Your password should not be a name, part of your email address, or any single word in the dictionary. This will protect you from password guessing and “dictionary attacks.”
4. It is recommended that your password is a shortened character representation of a sentence. For example, the phrase “safe from attack” could become the password s8feFRM@ack.
ROBOFORM
I use a program called roboform for my passwords. It allows me to keep a master password on my computer. It remembers my passwords out in the internet world where they are more susceptible to attacks. If it is doing the remembering and not me I can make them more difficult.
Check it out here. http://www.roboform.com/how-it-works/overview
I costs me $29 a year but it really saves me much more in time, anguish and frustration.
I think you can do the same thing on some of the auto fill features on explorer but I feel better using a program I purchased. Hackers are more likely to use something that is standard on computers so I use roboform.
Protect thyself
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Think Inside The Box
Over and over we hear the line “Think outside the box”.
Today I am asking you stop and think about things inside the box.
Is it time to put your marketing strategy in a box?
http://blogbarefoot.com/maybe-we-should-be-in-the-box-after-all
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2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,700 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people.
Resolution Time – What’s the Difference Between a Goal and a Dream?
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by Dave Miller
It’s time for the age old tradition of making your New Year’s resolution. Do you really think it’s going to be different this year? Well it can be if you think about what you are doing.
What is a resolution?
It’s basically a decision, stating the solution. So if the resolution is merely the decision to state the solution then we need to look at the solution. We state what we want to be. This brings us to the area of goals and dreams.
Goals vs. Dreams
Dreams are fantasy that we would love but realistically will never have unless God drops them into your lap. They tend to be unfocused and non-specific. To turn a dream into a goal you must on decide on a few things – how much, and by when, etc.
Goals are realistic and achievable. Goals are specific. Here is a list of values present in goals but absent in dreams:
- Goals are attainable
- They have a timeline
- You can break them into action steps
- They are specific
Turning Dreams into Goals.
A dream is a goal without legs. It is a wonderful thing to have, can be the guiding passion of your life, but unless you clarify it and give it the legs to move toward you, getting there is going to be very much a matter of luck.
To convert a dream into a goal you must make it tangible, provide the details, make it so clear that you can see it, feel it, know what you will feel like when you get there. Review the checklist.
Say it, Publicize it, Write it Down
Write down your goals to make you really concentrate rather than it being just a passing thought. Say it out loud. Say it to a friend. Get a mentor or accountability partner.
Post it on facebook.
I’m not joking. It works. After Matt Lapp posted on facebook that he is doing the Tough Mudder I brooded about it for a while. Then I signed up, and though I still could have hidden it from other people, instead I posted it on facebook. Now there is no backing out without public humiliation. Now that’s motivation. After talking to Matt he affirmed what I just stated saying he knew too that by posting it he would be held accountable.
Some people are not comfortable publicizing something. If that’s the case then skip facebook but make sure you have some other method of accountability. And remember, the more public it is the more motivation you have.
Action
You can do all you want but action is the key. And not just doing as little as possible to meet the quota. It takes hustle. You really need to put your heart into it or it will be a faded thought before the second week of January.
Make action steps. Things to be done this year and break it done to things to be done this month. Break down the weeks. Finally make a daily list.
Conclusion
So, am I going to make a New Year’s resolution? You bet I am. I’m going to get fit enough to run that Though Mudder. Will I stop with that resolution? No, I have a list of goals (some are a work in progress) that I’m working towards. Right now I’m breaking those goals down to what I need to accomplish by Jan 13th and also Jan 31st.
Bring on the New Year!
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