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Hacked off by hackers

Ever had your car, house or store broken into?

I’ve recently had the online equivalent. I’ve had someone break into my website causing my email to be disabled and disrupting things for a couple of days and I’m finding myself hacked off by hackers.

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Why it is sometimes okay to make a shameless plug

Today I am making a shameless plug.

I’m asking you to consider spending $25 to buy a copy of my recently published book, Beneath Dark Skies, to support people trying to rebuild their lives after the Black Saturday bushfires that happened three years ago last week.

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The business of Valentine’s Day

What does Valentine’s Day mean to you? A chance to show someone how much you love them? A tacky event that benefits the retails sector? Or something else?

This year I am choosing to make it my business to use Valentine’s Day to bring people together to contribute to their community.

No matter how they might feel about Valentine’s Day, many singles feel awkward or left out at the sight of canoodling couples everywhere they look.

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How to buy back time

What are you working on right now? Is it in line with the plan you wrote at the start of the of the day week? Or are you following a trail of distracting emails and phone calls as the day slips out of your control?

Time management is something we all strive to improve and as much as we would like to control time, there are still many things that occur unexpectedly and tasks that take longer or are more involved than we first thought.

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The crunch on lunch

Are you too busy to eat lunch? Or maybe you’re the kind of person that likes to scroll through e-mails on your smart phone with some kind of snack in the other hand?

The era of the long lunch could well be over as people now cram as much as possible into their day – but this might not be entirely healthy.

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How stopping can keep you going

More more more!

How much are you squeezing into every day? How much more do you think is possible?

Never before have people pushed themselves as hard as they do now, and an unfortunate by-product of this is the dreaded ‘stupid mistake’.

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Seeking Helping Hearts for Valentine’s Day

Single people who missed out on a New Year’s Eve date have another opportunity to find love – while doing good for their community.

With Valentine’s Day approaching, m.a.d.woman (making a difference) is looking for singles with a good heart to help combat urban poverty.

m.a.d.woman is running Helping Hearts, a major event for single people aged 25 to 44 to date for a cause at the Fitzroy Town Hall on Tuesday 14 February.

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‘Tis the season to be planning…

Have you laid out some plans for this year yet? How a plan for this week, or even today?

This time of year is often really good for crafting plans and setting up our agendas across short, medium and long term time frames. It’s an opportunity to think about what you want!

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Set it and don’t forget it!

Exercise more! Give up coffee! Save money! Start a business! See family more! Lose weight! Give up junk food! Get a promotion!

Did you pick any of those on New Year’s Eve to tackle for the year ahead?

It happens every year. People I know get ambitious with their resolutions and goals and can actually sometimes just set themselves up for failure.

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Holidays, the ultimate deadline

The week before festive season break is generally one of complete madness.

Many people are at work trying to get an impossibly large task lists completed and signed off before suppliers, customers, co-workers and colleagues shut their doors for around two weeks.

Evenings and weekends can involve a flurry of sprinting through shopping centres and hopping from one festive event to the next.

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