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Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Can you say “sidetracked?&# Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 11:41 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant I could blame it on the economy. Or I could explain how my child’s recent health scare derailed my focus.
Keyboard Maestro: Last year I was going to dedicate my “Journey to…” series to this app. I’ll spend some more time with it – especially now with its recent update. TextExpander: There is so much mroe I can do with this app – especially on the mobile version. I’ll be giving this app far more attention in 2013.
I also love my original Zaggmate keyboard. Recently I had to give up on my macbook and leave it home because I went to the usa, and I couldnt bring more than U$500 with me when I came back from there, stupid capitalism rules. I have the same, plus tote around my early 2008 MBP, which still functions great after upgrades.
I will get a keyboard or piano and learn to play it. Nonetheless, here’s my 2013 year in preview… I will write another book. But only one…a much bigger one. I will dive deeper into making more things for people to use to help them be more productive. I will go to less events…but make more of an impact at them.
A change of pace and scenery can do wonders, and I have found that simply by walking away that I have a renewed sense of vigor when I return to the keyboard. Often I’ll do the dishes or tidy up around the house in order to get my mind in a place where it can start to tackle the work challenges once again.
In the Advanced/General preferences panel, you can set Postbox to use Gmail’s keyboard shortcuts and you can also create events within Google Calendar for detected dates. It looks a lot like the native Apple Mail.app, but has a whole lot more under the hood. If you’re a big Gmail user, then Postbox has you covered. Postbox is rubbish.
It would be much easier to keyboard it but I know it wouldn’t have the same effect as writing it by hand. I do feel much more comfortable with a keyboard than hand though. As for hand-writing versus keyboard, I too am much faster when using the latter, but for me, that’s not the point. I get hand cramps!
Now, when I say ‘don’t write’, I don’t mean you should take a break or get away from the keyboard for a day. I’m a pretty fast typist but it made me realise how unnatural it is to use a keyboard, or even a pen. That’s just common sense, and you should already be taking frequent breaks.
You bashed monsters by hitting keys on your keyboard whilst wondering if you could hook up a nodding bird à la Homer Simpson. Griffin – Drool and keyboards don’t mix. To get to the next level, you needed experience points. To get experience points, you bashed monsters. You bashed monsters for hours. It was called grinding.
I am not a freelancer as such but I do work from home and I’ve training my boss and colleagues to stop arranging meetings after 4pm (still working on that one), I’ve been forcing myself to step away from the keyboard and to stop checking work emails after hours. You have plenty of time left for that client.
No delicate tippy-tapping on the keyboard for me. Reply Joshua Black | The Underdog Millionaire ( @jblack2012 ) April 28, 2010 at 10:23 am I have found that it’s best just to walk away from the keyboard before you hit send and regret it forever. Sometimes it’s best to just walk away from the keyboard. Or had he?
This is where bloggers get a head start: if you have a blog, you have a good reason to put fingers to keyboard on a regular basis. I don’t know who wrote them and why they thought they had the right to sit before a keyboard and litter the Web with, um, substandard writing. So it’s a good exercise, although a bit painful.
I maximize those as much as I can, and when they strike, I get myself to a keyboard. I think it’s a good idea to step away from the keyboard and take a break. Just remembering who I was. Srinivas – Yeah, those runs of inspiration are awesome, aren’t they. Matthew´s last blog.
Just like plants need wind to grow, writers need some reassurance that they are not just going at it alone each time they sit at the keyboard. Although a I do the bulk of my work at home, there is a TON of truth in the fact that you get dumber if you don’t eventually get some human interaction. Great post.
No matter what the topic is, before you put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, be sure that you have the qualifications to write about whatever you are about to share. Star Wars: The Clone Wars As an author, you have some responsibility for the potential effects your words might have on others. If not, move on to something else.
It’s a great feeling to be able to sit down at the keyboard, fully confident in your ability, clean of any doubt or future-worry and, is especially great when the recommended 8.25 hours of sleep is achieved. Reply Shane Arthur ( @shanearthur ) June 28, 2010 at 11:16 am I,,,aaaaawaaaaawh,,,I agree, James.
It’s fun, but it’s not like I sit at my keyboard, occasionally throwing my arms into the air and squealing, “Wheeeeeee! “That’s what I want.” It’s true that I really enjoy writing, but it’s rarely easy. That’s part of the point for me: the challenge. I’m writing!” Of course, it is sort of like that, but that’s Tourette’s, not glee.
I can say one thing, you sure have fire in your pen( or should I say keyboard) but I totally agree that all those years in college and unversity acquiring a B.A have actually fashioned the way I think on most topics. Keep up the great work!!
so that I can capture ideas when away from pen and paper (or keyboard and screen). I also own three digital voice recorders (one for the house, one for the car, and one in my laptop travel case – did I mention I have OCD?), How “great” are these great ideas?
What follows is me thinking into my keyboard. I think the change has to occur in the minds of people more than in how we deliver valuable information. In that regard, there really isn’t anything new. Sorry if it’s long and messy. You have the written word in pixels or print. You have video online or on DVD.
Just once in a while… I find I have those moments as well, and if you’re not right there with the pen or the keyboard, then you’ve lost it. And it’s kind of tough to… You know, if I could …. Just grasp that moment, eh? And it feels like you’ve lost it forever. And it’s kind of sad. Yeah, but that’s our ego.
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