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Article: 49 Awesome ChatGPT Prompts to Create a Daily, Weekly and Monthly Self-Care Plan

49 Awesome ChatGPT Prompts to Create a Daily, Weekly and Monthly Self-Care Plan

49 Awesome ChatGPT Prompts to Create a Daily, Weekly and Monthly Self-Care Plan - The Aesthetic Abode

In today’s fast-paced world, self-care is more important than ever. It’s essential to carve out time for yourself to recharge and maintain y

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The ‘most persuasive’ people always do these 9 things when talking to others, say psychology experts

You can be extra persuasive if you choose the right words and phrases. Language and psychology experts share how to get people to do what yo

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So, you want to build a multi billion dollar international company. Do you have enough ideas to leverage as collateral? If not, then build the first idea. Document your process, most likely using ISO practices. Then replicate your success w another idea. Now ask for a loan to replicate the process for successive products and services. When you get big enough, switch from loans to and IPO, and continue to grow.

Remember, the idea is not to get stuck w one success, or to think that success means that you can build a company w o loans. Every company uses loans to enter new markets, develop products, hire people, ... including Linked In.

Success, is defined by being able to take advantage of the current market situation. Look at Apple who took a GUI interface and launched a new OS. Look at Microsoft who rebuilt the GUI OS around the web browser. Look at ChatGPT and how its being incorporated into our daily lives. Rebranding product and services is a constant.

Where most people get stuck is w the game of money. The idea is your baby. We see stories / movies about how ideas were stolen, monetized, and used to gain infinite wealth. We get caught up in not getting the rewards of our hard work because someone else bought it w a salary.

Instead, I think companies, should be upfront about this game, vs hiding it. Go out, leverage every idea that you have, make as much money as you can along the way, fight to protect your ideas w patents and laws, and if the margin fall due to changing market forces that move faster than you can, then fold the company and start another.

Remember, you have proven that you can take an idea and build a company around it w a proven ISO process. You have shown that you can expand that new company w additional products and services. You have shown that you,ll make money aling the way. And, you,ll have fun doing it.

But, if you want to work at a company that will never fail during your life time, then work for the government. There, your ideas may change the market, but may not. You may just be a cog in the machine that grinds through daily life serving people at a library, dmv, hospital or other institution.

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How to WFH ..

Many managers do not know how to facilitate convos. They are used to barking orders and expecting things to be done. Sadly.

True communication requires understanding the rules of facilitation and 4 rules of communication.

Facilitation ..

1 .. you can invite

2 .. they can decline

3 .. never facilitate unless asked

4 .. only use what you are given

5 .. never throw your shit into their process

Communication ..

1 .. maintain expectations

2 .. use risk management to assess situations and plan for options b, c and d

3 .. manage knowledge .. build those wikis, insure that code, projects, process And more are documented

4 .. manage support. You are not just a manager or a tech, you are a knowledge base of contacts and search engines. Link people together.

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Do Collaboration Tools need Librarians?

At a recent Pacfic IT Pros meeting at Microsoft, I listened to a presentation about Collaboration Tools. The speaker discussed several major benefits of collaboration tools and why businesses are starting to move towards them. My understanding of what was discussed is, little bits of information are being lost in the constant flow of information .. whether it be by email or by Facebook timeline posts.

The problem with that businesses are trying to solve are the workflow issues from the beginning of a customer's problem to the solution. This may be a customer's order, or a request for support on a product, or a billing issue. The range of issues and how they are handled vary with each customer and problem. However, there are some patterns that could be identified.

- More than one person is involved in solving or resolving the customer's issue. - These people need to discuss the customer's issue in order to resolve it. - The conversations can happen anywhere and at any time. - Each customer request needs to enter into a system in order to be tracked, traced, monitored, and aggregated. - Most processes are initially captured as Todo's, Calendar Appointments, Meeting Notes, Text Messages, Telephone Calls, Follow up Emails, Online / Offline Discussions, Document Comments. - Information about past issues needs to be captured, cataloged, indexed, organized, stored, retrieved, discriminated, and purged. (Librarianship) - These Processes (referring to previous line item) need to become ISO Processes - These ISO Processes need to have Gant Charts and WorkFlow diagrams attached to them. - These ISO Processes need to be automated to take the full effect of both Collaboration and Automation. - Metrics are needed to insure that customer issues are being taken care of in a timely fashion. - Six Sigma is needed to review various ISO processes to determine the best method in resolving the general set of customer issues.

The problem with most of the tools out there, is that they don't address all of these factors.

The biggest problem is that there are no tools for Librarians, thus when an employee leaves, their information becomes lost in the bulk of email threads, notes, or other conversation mediums that were used. This may be due to the lack of understand in how libraries work, and how to apply those methodologies to information gathering, cataloging and storage for later retrieval.

The question I'm going to ask various librarians is what they would need in order aggregate this information. In the basic scenario, a librarian would be asked to consolidate and generate a report that summarizes some business process or generate a policy on how a business process should be shaped.

When I asked the presenter this question, they suggested finding a champion. I think this should be a real position, not held by Watson, but by a real person who digs through the diverse sets of information like an interactive SQL engine and builds an answer to the questions, not only with internal information but also external information sources.