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How being happy helps you succeed (…not just at work)

Happiness is relative and means something different to every person. But it is absolutely essential if you want to succeed. Not just at work, but life in general. What can you do to achieve “just the right amount of happiness” that will have a positive effect on your life, work, and relationships and what are...

You are creative, you may just not realize

Earlier this week I attended a very interesting and insightful conference my colleague organized. It wasn’t big, only 5 other people attended besides me, but all the more personal and I really enjoyed the 4 hours I spent there. Not to mention the amount of stuff I learned about creativity, problem-solving and horizons it can...

4 famous time management techniques that will kickstart your productivity

All of us have the same 24 hours in a day and some of us still manage to do 3 people’s workloads in that same day, while others permanently struggle with meeting deadlines. So how can one work less yet manage more? Let’s be effective. Let’s not waste our time looking for solutions. Let’s use...

Timeless advice for business-people: 10 principles of a successful advertisement from 1921

Literature about success principles was being published as long as 100 years ago. For example in Germany, a school of success was established in 1921 by a businessman and a propagator of positive thinking Oscar Schellbach. Based on the principles taught in this school, there was a publication released showcasing the knowledge of that time, especially...

5 books about business that even people who aren’t in business should read

 „If you give a fish to the hungry, you will feed him for a day. But if you teach him how to catch a fish, you will feed him for life.” (unknown author) Our last article about books that aren’t really about business, but can definitely help you and your business was so intriguing that...

5 books for business people that are actually not about business at all

To be successful in business, one needs to have many skills. You should be able to understand a little bit of accounting, have a basic grasp of marketing, be a specialist in the area you are doing your business in and understand basic law principles. But wait, there is, of course, more. There are other...

Get under the Clevork skin

    A bit of a different post today. Actually a lot different. We are not gonna be sharing a productivity tip or a tool that will help you become more effective today. We are sharing some personal info about us, people behind Clevork, people who developed it and are making sure everything from the...

….And the winner is

    About 3 weeks or so ago, we came up with an idea of a competition. The conditions were simple. If we get 500 likes on our FB Fan Page Monday by Clevork we will randomly pick a winner out of all the people who like our page and the lucky winner will receive the Clevork...

Throw your to-do list away

Maybe you thought that avoiding tasks is a typical characteristic of unsuccessful people. But as Tim Ferriss and many others alongside him say, the opposite is correct. Rich and successful people are champions at putting things off till later. The difference is that the majority of people spend most of their time doing the 80%...

The secret of success

One of the biggest mistakes people repeatedly make to weaken their self-confidence and effectiveness is, that they keep waiting until they figure out all the details for a task or an activity they wish to go ahead with. Successful people differ from the rest of us by acting first rather than waiting until they are...