Ignoring the fact this is technically an amusing advert for Xerox, it’s a brilliant parody of extreme business productivity in action. I wonder how many of you actually work in an environment reminiscent of this? If you can’t motivate the staff normally, just put something in their water. Cunning…

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We all have toxic people in our lives. Whether it be a friend, work colleague, associate, neighbour or relative, there is bound to be somebody who brings little or no goodness to your life and make you feel bad inside, as well as draining your energy and even affecting your health. They often possess one or more negative qualities that clash badly with your own personality, such as jealousy, selfishness or negativity. You can rarely control these people so it’s a wise strategy to cut them out of your life.

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This post was written for Organize IT by Mike King who is the author of Learn This, a productivity blog for passionately learning career, leadership and life improvement tips. He’s written many articles about finding your passion in life, goal setting and many other ideas around learning to have a better and more positive life. You can subscribe to his RSS feed to read more of his articles.

There is a lot of value in making change in life and so learning to do things differently is worthwhile for improving your own life and the life of others around you. Habits make up a good portion of our behavior and so there are many things we do that become habitual and there is a lot of value in learning to change some of those habits and overcome the bad ones. These are my tips and methods to do that.

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July was a very busy month. I got married, finished my first ebook and started the personal productivity Twitter list. I won’t be resting in August though as it will be Organize IT’s second birthday with a site redesign to accompany it, too. If you haven’t read my book or joined the Twitter list yet then please do! Now onto the best posts from July (an especially good month thanks to some great guest posts).

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Recently Problogger did a feature asking readers to submit their social media profiles. The result was a list of over 500 Twitter users. This has had a big influence on the amount of followers I have, which in turn has resulted in much more constructive feedback and discussion. So, I thought, why not do something similar for personal productivity fans? It should prove to be a great opportunity to communicate with like minded people.

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