With Focus and a Smile, You Can Keep Moving Forward

Turn It Up Tuesday: Tips from Insightly to Take Your Business to 11

Welcome to Turn It Up Tuesday, where we bring you 3 weekly tips—a tip on using Insightly CRM, a tip on running your business, and a tip on improving your life. For this week’s tips, we pay tribute to some amazing women during Women’s History Month with quotes that will help you have a happier and more productive day.

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Create Many Tasks in Fewer Steps

“In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.”

Samuel Bell Waugh - Dorothea Lynde Dix - Google Art Project-cropDorothea Dix took on an astounding number of tough tasks to improve society and raise awareness about the less fortunate. Your tasks might or might not be taking you toward such lofty goals, but keeping them in Insightly gives you an easy way to manage and monitor them. If you’ve got many tasks to enter, typing them into Insightly can be a task, in and of itself. Instead of entering so many tasks field-by-field, you can use a spreadsheet program to enter them, copy and paste them, or use calculations to more quickly create them in a file which can be saved in CSV format for importing to Insightly. With columns for task name, due date, responsible user, and other available fields, you can import them to create the Insightly task list in just a minute or two!

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Don’t Let Obstacles Stop You.

“I never dwell on what happened. You can’t change it. Move forward.”

Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers encountered many setbacks in her professional and personal life and continued to push through to success. In order to move your business forward, know where you’re headed and keep moving toward your goals. That doesn’t mean you need to stubbornly beat your head against a wall when something isn’t working; instead, try to have a sense of humor about the failures and flops and then find creative solutions around the roadblocks. This could mean finding another path, getting some help, or tweaking your goal a bit as you go along. As long as you’re moving toward a destination, you’re making progress!

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Smile! It Can Make You Happier.

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.”

Maya Angelou speech for Barack Obama campaign 2008Maya Angelou knew where smiles count most, just as Joan Rivers made them count as often as possible. The act of smiling, even if forced, is known to improve mood and reduce stress levels as your brain reacts to the expression on your face. This could even set a chain reaction of events, since when your brain is in a positive state it “performs significantly better than at negative, neutral or stressed. Your intelligence rises, your creativity rises, your energy levels rise.” This video explains the idea and will likely put a smile on your face as it helps you accomplish a little more today.

 

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About the author: Tony Roma is Insightly’s Content Manager. He’s been helping businesses implement software solutions and improve their work processes for over ten years.