Sentences with phrase «of getting it done»

«People said we wouldn't get this done; we're on the verge of getting this done.»

You just kind of got them done.

Also this week: prep for upcoming class, work on garden, harvest / preserve rhubarb as needed, get back into walking after being a sicky last week, make kimchee, finish GFCF cake packet, work 15 hours typing data entry (at least — 20 would be better, but doubt I can do that much), and work on getting clothes that are too small out of the girl's closets — maybe... We will see how much of that gets done, but it's good to have a goal!

Not exact matches

We initially backed that with our own reserves, which was a very scary thing to do, but then we got a lot of interest from insurance companies.

I get my flash briefing from Alexa, which gets me a hands - free summary of what's on fire in the real world, and I do a quick check of Slack on my phone, which gets me a quick summary of what's on fire at work.

«That's why many women who have this type of IUD either get a very light period every month or they don't get a period at all.

Effective time management involves planning the amount of time spent you spend on all of the tasks of running a business — and your personal life — to get things done in the most effective and productive manner.

We get tired of ads a lot faster than consumers do,» he told an industry conference.

You get to dictate the terms of the arrangement, and you get to decide exactly what value you provide instead of doing anything the client asks.

He added: «It doesn't seem to me that it's going to be a format that you're going to get a lot of substance, because the four minutes run out and you've got to move on.»

Less celebrated are these innovative companies» contribution of powerful but low - tech productivity hacks to help managers and owners get more done in less time.

Like all aspects of our lives, we want freedom over how we get work done.

He pitched the idea of owning this benchmark - tracking product, but he didn't get many takers.

Ms. Channing recently emailed dozens of blockchain experts, trying to get them to volunteer as representatives to the I.S.O. delegations in their countries, so that the process does not become dominated by a few countries.

Use your to - do list to make a plan — specifically think through when and where you'll do the tasks and in what order — and you'll find you maximize the actual benefit you get out of the exercise, a quieter mind rather than a series of boxes you'll actually tick.

So this is a fairly significant technical challenge to make deeply cryogenic tanks out of carbon fiber, and it's only recently that we think the carbon fiber technology has gotten to the point where we can actually do this without having to create a liner — some sort of metal liner, or other liner, on the inside of the tanks, which would add mass and complexity.

He traveled often, both for work and to visit his now wife, Yoganshi Shah, in the U.S. Shah finally got fed up watching her husband spend $ 25 on a pillow every time he traveled, and didn't love the stockpile of pillows they were gradually amassing either.

With the amount of technology and ergonomic office furniture available today, the excuse that a professional must sit in order to get work done is no longer valid.

Nowadays, while I still think much more could be done to encourage entrepreneurship in education, there are lots of tools and mentors to help you get started in business.

I've watched the behavior of 14 - year - old girls spending 10 minutes to take the best selfie, post it on Instagram, and then take it down when it doesn't get enough likes.

«That's not something that we had originally set out to do, but over time we got such an overwhelming amount of demand from larger companies,» says Josh Emig, WeWork's head of research.

So it helps when it is the decision makers that we are talking to, and we don't have to go through three or four layers of people to get a decision made.

Many candidates are prepared to talk about the high points of their career, but to get a full scope of how you will adjust to the job, hiring managers also want to see how you handle situations that don't go as planned.

If you haven't done any of these things during your employment gap, then she says you should get to work on building your skills immediately.

One reason newspaper sites don't get a lot of readers is that they are poorly designed, slow to load, and filled with annoying advertising.

Returns and refunds take the risk out of buying, because if you don't like the product it can be returned for free and you'll get your money back.

I wrote a separate article on the topic of delegation where the simple rule is that if someone can do a job 70 % as good as you can, you should delegate it because you get 70 % of the output using almost none of your time.

So, why do a small number of individuals and organizations consistently thrive in conditions of rapid change while so many more attain a certain level of success only to get stuck in a rut?

Regarding Facebook's guidelines for workplace relationships, «We train that if you ask a co-worker on a date and they say no, you don't get to ask again — and beyond that we make it clear that an «I'm busy» or «I can't that night» is a «no»,» said Heidi Swartz, the company's global head of employment law.

If we want things to get better, the first step is to clearly understand the problems and then to start thinking about what we can do to shut down the click - bait con artists, viral vultures, and other BS hucksters who are clogging up the critical arteries of the Internet with their cheap tricks and phony features.

I have a pair of to - do lists — one personal, one business — and each features three columns: manageable that - day tasks, non-urgent demands to get to the next day and projects on the horizon.

When I tell people that I work remotely, and that I manage a team of remote workers from my backyard, I always get the same response: «how did you land that gig!»

When you beg to work with your clients and show that you're willing to do anything to get the sale, including lowering your prices, you're showing your clients that you're a body for hire and that they are in control of the relationship.

They understand that achieving great things means getting more done, taking excellent care of their bodies and thinking in ways which promote greatness.

But it's also seen by many in the industry as the archetype of the fast - moving but ultimately shallow clickbait machine, driven by pageviews and willing to do almost anything to get them.

Cruise control is not just the easiest way to make sure you don't get a ticket — I routinely set mine 6 or 7 miles an hour over the speed limit, and (knock on a huge piece of wood) can't remember the last time I got a speeding ticket — but it's also the courteous move, especially on the interstate.

It's just that he got so busy that he didn't realize how much time had gone by where he had not checked in with several of his contacts — an easy mistake for most small business owners who feel like every day is shorter than the last.

«I get criticized for going to meetings in the United States — and I don't really care at the end of the day.»

Don't get complacent about your leadership or understanding of the world.

If you see Kayak co-founder Paul English behind the wheel of his Tesla, don't get too friendly.

So then getting back to the question of how do we pay for this system, this is really quite a profound — I won't call it breakthrough, but realization that if we can build a system that cannibalizes our own products, makes our own products redundant, then all of the resources, which are quite enormous, that are used for Falcon 9, Heavy, and Dragon, can be applied to one system.

For instance, you don't get the kind of gravity - driven diffusion that makes molecules scatter to a specific destination based on their density (think of excess sugar falling to the bottom of an oversaturated glass).

CB «s writers also take you behind the scenes of Canada's most - profitable companies, to get an inside look at how a corporation becomes the best at what they do.

The total amount of money doesn't go down — it gets shifted around, in this case more equitably.

If you have too many thoughts swirling around in your head, it will rob you of sleep, downtime, and eventually, the concentration you need to get things done as well.

«Generally, when you are the basis for a platform, you don't want to scare away investment in your platform developers by competing with them... There is a vibrant ecosystem of game developers, headed by Zynga, who do a good job making successful social games already, and Facebook gets a cut of what those developers make, so there is currently no need for Facebook to step in and make games itself, either strategically or monetarily,» Hoskins recently explained via Quora.

They know that the old adage «you get what you pay for» is true, and they're willing to invest in quality and doing things right instead of looking for the lowest price.

«You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs,» Bush said.

«I knew I did not have a great chance of getting hired somewhere,» says Tasner.

Avoiding burnout has nothing to do with making sure you eat three square meals a day or get eight hours of sleep a night.