Category: Work Tips

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Just Play Baseball! A Lesson in Effective Communication

As a father of 4, including 2 boys, I have found myself attending a Little League baseball game on more than one occasion. Sometimes I am simply a parent spectator ...

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Define Your Brand with a Positioning Statement

Did you ever play MadLibs as a kid? The fun of it might have worn off once you learned that “stinky” wasn’t the perfect adjective for any situation. However, here’s ...

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Can You Nurture Creativity?

I may not be a full time illustrator or graphic designer, but I think you could consider me kind of a creative person. I write full-time here at Gravitate; I ...

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How to Keep Yourself Sane as a Writer

So I was doing some calculations, and it looks like that as a writer here, I put out about 2,000 words of polished, fact-checked content on a daily basis. It’s ...

5 Tips for Surviving a Snow Day

Seeing as it’s been a wild weather day here in Utah we figured it was a good time to share a few tips on how to survive a Snow Day. ...

The Art of Juggling at Work

Whether you work in a job where your have clear-cut, defined tasks or you are in the in-house “jack of all trades”, it is likely you will find yourself needing ...

Five Things I Learned as a Small Business Owner

When I am not writing for Gravitate Online, I am off running my own business, Character Booking. We send costumed characters to birthday parties, corporate events, city events, Salt Lake ...

Email Outreach – You’re Doing it Right

Whether we like it or not a lot of our business lives are based on communication and in today’s busy world a big chunk of that communication comes from emails. ...

What Makes a Compelling Image

They say that good design is invisible, and that design really only becomes apparent when it’s done poorly. And while I wholeheartedly agree with this, I’m pretty sure that any ...

Is Is it the Coach or the Talent?

What makes a football team great? Why are the Seahawks on their way to the Superbowl for the second year? Russel Wilson? Richard Sherman? Pete Carroll? Or how about this ...

Focus @ Work: The Tyler Durden Approach Part 3

3. Specific Defense Ideas Okay. We’ve identified the ideal and labeled some of our distractions. How do we minimize these so we can get more work done? Most times, we ...

Focus @ Work: The Tyler Durden Approach Part 2

2. What is the Reality? Okay, in Focus @ Work Part 1 we had our heads in the clouds and talked about the ideal, lets take a look at reality. ...

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