Note: because of recent changes to both Skype To Go and freephoneline.ca, this method doesn’t really work anymore. Phone booths in Ashburn, Ontario. Photo by Rick Harris. Here’s how I slashed my cellphone bills by 70%. The goal: Make free calls without depleting your daytime minutes Make unlimited long distance calls within Canada and the [...]
Nike takes its name from the Greek goddess of victory, but who pictures a goddess when they buy running shoes? I doubt that one in a hundred customers give a thought to the meaning behind the name. Would Nike have done so well under any name?
If you value money, you’ll budget and track track it. Why not treat your time the same?
When I worked at a large engineering consulting firm, every minute of my working day had to be attributed to a current project. I worked on various large projects for different clients throughout the day, but by 5 PM my time had to add to 8.0 hours. If a project had too many hours it would go over budget.
Since there was no category for ‘walking around’, ‘chatting it up’, or even ‘misc work’, it encouraged a productive, task-oriented mindset.
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