http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Shafir+Ahmad Self Help Shafir Ahmad Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=161503&ca=Self+Help With our busy lives and mounting responsibilities we think that the faster we work, or the harder we work, the more we will accomplish. While this sounds good in theory, it is just not true. When we try to work faster, we may lose focus and this results in taking longer to complete a project. The fo... Self Help Shafir Ahmad Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=158437&ca=Self+Help Balancing your work life and your home life can be very difficult. Your job can require more of you than you are able to give in a typical 8 to 10 hour day. A lot of people will bring work home with them at night or on the weekends or will work longer hours to get their jobs finished. But the more t... Self Help Shafir Ahmad Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=149554&ca=Self+Help There are two main categories that time wasters or time bandits can fall under. The first category is self generated internal time wThere are two main categories that time wasters or time bandits can fall under. The first category is self generated internal time wasters. These are the things that yo... Leadership Shafir Ahmad Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=133884&ca=Leadership Meetings could be considered a necessary evil of the everyday work life. A poorly organized meeting will not only be a huge time waster, but can also ruin your credibility with your coworkers. It is vitally important that you learn the basics of conducting a short and well organized meeting. The sin... Career Shafir Ahmad Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=130281&ca=Career One of the biggest time wasters in the workplace is the endless stream of meetings. There is the weekly work-in-progress meetings, there are monthly meetings, there is the daily request for impromptu meetings and then there are meetings over lunch. It would serve employees and employers well if meet... Self Help Shafir Ahmad Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=129671&ca=Self+Help One of the challenges facing you in today's workplace is the constant stream of distractions that happen on an on-going basis every single day. At the end of the work day, you often wonder why you have not completed that task or written that document which needs to be ready by first thing the next d... Self Help Shafir Ahmad Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=130850&ca=Self+Help Do you have to deal with people who just love to waste your time? They will creep up on you and talk nonstop for hours on a trivial subject, or maybe they just want to gossip. I used to get a lot of these, until I said enough is enough, and I actually went and got a sign made which I hung over my cu... Self Help Shafir Ahmad Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=126968&ca=Self+Help We only have a limited amount of time each day, and it is important that we get as much as possible out of our day. Often we are inundated with things to do that are urgent, and lots of stuff that just happens to need to be done today. So we may waste our time on meetings and other unproductive thin... Self Help Shafir Ahmad Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=148196&ca=Self+Help A checklist is the best way to get organized for any event. Most of us make a grocery list before going to the store, why not make a list for everything else in life? The benefits greatly outweigh the time that it may take to make one. The more checklists that you make, the faster you will get at i... Self Help Shafir Ahmad Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=132686&ca=Self+Help If you are like most people today, you live a very busy life. You wake up in the morning and before you know it, bedtime is here again and you feel like you still have a million and one things to do. This can cause a lot of added stress in your life - stress that you don't need. So let us look at wa...