The After-hours survival tips

When working late in the evenings or even the weekends alone, it is wise to think about the health.
To obtain get-up and-go for the extra hours ahead, you'll need extra energy so make sure you have enough to keep you going. Top up with nutritious meal to get all the carbohydrates, proteins and other nutrients you will need to stay healthy.

Try a nutritionally balance food drink. Enjoy either delicious chocolate, lip smacking vanilla or creamy plain flavors, delicious both hot or cold.

What's a late night without music? It motivates the tired mind and soul, so what better time to crank it up than during overtime? It is, however, important to coordinate the tunes with your personal taste and mood as well as those of others in the vicinity of your work area.

Problem identification

How does one analyze a problem situation. One way of looking at a problem is to say that some obstacles are interfering with the attainment of some goals or that some deviation has occurred int eh expected performance or norm.

The first element involved is to identify the norm - actual: no problem. When the norm and the actual are one and the same, there is no problem. When the actual is lower than the norm, however, we have a negative deviation.

When the actual is above the norm, then we have a positive deviation. The first thing we will notice about the deviation is it's effects. However, in order to correct a deviation, we need to find the cause. To do that, we must proceed to a description of the problem.

coming up next.... description of what the problem is and is not.

The ability to deceive

One of the most important qualities in business is the ability to deceive. People who are open, honest and direct about their desires and ambitions are rarely successful in the business world. This is a sad but true, hard fact of commercial combat which have been practiced over and over again. This does not mean that you have to be a lying, cheating, sleaze ball to be good at your job.

It is simply means that you need to have the capacity to be ruthless an single minded in achieving the necessary aims. If blind siding a customer or stabbing a colleague in the back is what it takes to succeed, then so be it. However never do this at the expense of your good reputation. This is tough proposition. it is a very fine line to tread.

Little ways to save

Saving big starts with the little things. Here are 10 painless ways to save big bucks.

Need your cuppa everyday? Instead having a RM6 -a-cup cappuccinos from your upmarket cafes, make your own in the office pantry. You save RM1,440 in a year.

Bring leftover dinners such as fried rice to work and save RM5 on lunch. That's RM1,200.

A glass of soft drink costs RM1.60. Use the water dispenser at work and saveRM384.

Before you plonk down good money for a brand new book, shop around. Drop by second hand bookshop or go to the book-stand and you might find past issues of magazines that are sold only for RM1-3.

Small bottles of toiletries are perfect for traveling. Buy small empty bottles from Watson's and fill them with your favorite toiletries before starting your journey.