Columns such as this one are published every day, but reading
them is a waste of time if you don't take action.
Learning something new can actually
be a waste of time if your goal is to make progress and not simply gain additional knowledge.
Thank you for proving praying
is a waste of time if «free will» rules.
Giroud
is a waste of time if crosses aren't coming in the box, and you can't rely on Bellerin for crosses, Ozil is wasted down the wing as is Wilshere, which leaves kolasinac as the only person putting ball in.
Spending hours each week improving balance to maximize the body's potential while reducing risk of injury
is a waste of time if done incorrectly, so it is important to know the rules in order for the success achieved during training to translate into success on the field.
Often people think that dating
is a waste of time if they do not meet «Ms. Right» immediately, but it can be spent not in vain.
«While the feds probably do have the right to require this of states, I do think it's a waste of time if everybody has agreed that there are no sanctions put in place,» Schuler said.
This will not
be a waste of time if your truly shopping for a deal.
We may be interested in certain agents because they represent authors we admire, but querying them will only
be a waste of time if they don't ever take on first - time authors.
Not exact matches
Many business owners
are still not convinced or
if they
are, they
waste a lot
of time because they have no plan.
If you
are sending generic emails, you
are not only
wasting your
time but potentially hurting your chances
of doing business with certain prospects.
It doesn't matter what type
of side hustle you
're engaged in,
if you
're not building your list, you
're wasting your
time.
In either case, we
're paying a monthly fee to fund an army
of developer geeks in Silicon Valley and customer service reps in India who
waste our
time fixing problems that wouldn't
be a problem
if the company just delivered what
was originally promised.
If employees
are completing all
of their work on schedule despite spending half their workday
wasting time, it might
be smart to add more duties to their job descriptions.
Meetings can
be a huge
waste of time if you aren't organized.
But
if you stop and think about it, you'll begin to see that Facebook
is actually a
waste of time for most small businesses, and here
's why:
If you think tracking your company's social media return on investment (ROI)
is a
waste of time, think again.
The bottom line: Ask yourself regularly
if you
are wasting the
time of already busy people.
No one, and no business, can afford to
be perfect even
if it
were possible; it
's a
waste of time to even try.
«
If the front
of the store
is not bringing in people because shelves aren't stocked, [customers] think «Why would I
waste my
time here?
If you
're a Mac user who constantly feels buried in tabs and windows and want to speed up your workflow, don't
waste any more
of your precious
time.
«
If the U.S. delegation comes to China believing Beijing's resolve to open wider to the outside world
is a matter
of expediency under pressure from Washington, it will likely mean a lot
of time is wasted setting the record straight.»
Especially
if you
are hiring teams
of freelancers, you can not
waste time with an extensive interview process.
But
if you
're constantly trying to power through substantive knowledge work for eight hours or more a day, then it
's pretty much guaranteed that you
're wasting a whole lot
of time.
If you think no agreement
is possible, and that we may
be wasting our
time, perhaps we could disclose our thinking to some trustworthy third party, who can then tell us whether there
is a zone
of potential agreement.»
If no one comes, you learn it
was a
waste of time in the first place.
Also,
if you
're able to find something through a friend
of a friend, it takes away some
of randomness, and you at least know you
're not
wasting your
time with a scam.
If you've never
been through a structured process, this exercise can
be daunting, and frankly, feel like a big
waste of time.
«
If you
are unwilling or unable to act on survey data, then the survey
is a
waste of your customers»
time and an unnecessary distraction for your organization.»
Don't
waste your
time if: You
're looking for lots
of testimonials from folks just like you.
This
is excellent advice, but what we often forget
is that even
if you know what the top 20 percent
is, you still need to avoid the pitfall
of wasting time on the remaining 80 percent
of tasks.
Rather than offering a meaningful opportunity for dialogue, management «acts as
if, as a shareholder, you
are an imposition, a
waste of their
time.
If you
waste five minutes
of your prospect's
time droning on about a product feature or service offering that isn't going to positively affect the company's primary business need right now, chances
are high that you'll lose the sale.
If you
waste a lot
of valuable work
time trying to locate computer files you accidentally deleted or re-open important browser tabs you mistakenly closed, we've got some good news: There
are some simple keyboard shortcuts that can help you deal with these issues quickly.
If something feels like a
waste of time, it may very well
be.
Don't
waste another second
of valuable work
time trying to remember
if you booked your rental car or what your flight confirmation number
is.
If you think that MySpace users
are just a bunch
of time -
wasting teens and blogs
are just for self - indulgent navel - gazers, you could
be missing a big opportunity to shift your eBay sales into overdrive.
If someone tries to attend a meeting that doesn't exist, then their valuable
time has
been wasted and the purpose
of canceling the meeting has
been defeated.
If there
is no mold
of what an entrepreneur
is supposed to look like, then we don't need to
waste our
time trying to fit into a mold.
If you have anything less than exceptional customer service in your business, you
're wasting the
time of, creating extra work for and frustrating your frontline people, other staff, managers and yourself — and that
's poor management.
Having worked in the past for entrepreneurs whose micromanaging
wasted «so much
time,» Faught says he stresses to employees that
if something goes wrong, there won't
be any pointing
of fingers.
Plus, banks don't want to
waste their
time filling out lengthy SBA loan applications
if they
are confident you'll get denied because
of a low FICO SBSS score.
If you can resist the temptation to steamroll ahead and instead find your ideal pocket
of influence, you'll
be rewarded by avoiding those ill -
timed,
wasted efforts that diluted your impact in the past.
But
if sales reps completely negate their qualification duties, they
are not just
wasting their own
time, they
are also
wasting the
time of everyone involved throughout both your company and your customers.
While email prospecting
is certainly a vital tool for business growth,
if done incorrectly it can
be the source
of an incredible amount
of wasted time — for the sender and the receiver.
This
is a practice that
's an utter
waste of time if you phone it in, so take authenticity over frequency, quality over quantity.
This
is proof that
if you do not spend
time or put any strategy toward the development
of your outreach, you
are not only
wasting time and creating negative equity for your offerings, but you
're making every other salesperson's job a whole lot tougher.
This
is a
waste of time as,
if someone else covered it, clearly the reporter you asked does NOT cover it.
On the other hand,
if accruing and redeeming rewards
is going to
be a hassle or you'll only
be able to use them within a short period
of time, putting effort into earning those rewards could
be a
waste of time.
Digital marketing represents a great opportunity for Canadian businesses
of all sizes, but it
's also easy to
waste your
time and money
if you don't know what you
're doing.