Eventually you use up every excuse in your book for not doing the thing you keep saying you’re going to do. You’ve procrastinated yourself into a corner and realize it’s either time to just do it, or finally forget about it and move on.
Eliminating Digital Distractions
Life is so full of distractions. It seems everything is vying for our attention in one way or another these days, with most of it coming from our electronic gadgets. If you take time to look up from your phone for a few minutes, you’ll find a sea of humanity with faces buried in their own device. It’s painful to watch.
Saying No
Saying no can be one of the hardest things to do. No to an exciting new project. No to a volunteer opportunity in the community or at church; no to the extra helping of food at a meal; no to bad habits we’ve carried around with us all our lives.
Spin Cycle
We move from one thing to the next and then another in search of a quick thrill, because we’ve become instant gratification junkies.
Top Chrome Extensions Every Salesforce Admin Needs
Since I’m all about being as productive as I can possibly be, these are the top Google Chrome extensions I regularly use to add just a tiny bit of time back into my day.
Passing Your Salesforce ADM201 Certification Exam
Now that I’ve done it, I thought it might be good to share the things that helped me be successful with those looking to do the same.
AppleScript to Compress Files and Folders
This Applescript compresses files and folders into their own archive.
Salesforce Flows, Visualforce and Context
I was asked to find a solution for our field reps that would simplify the process of adding a completed task to their activities when they visited one of our retail stores.
Making a Field Appear Required on a Visualforce Page
I’ve been working on a force.com app with a requirement the user must enter a valid email address on a Visualforce page by clicking a button instead of leaving the edit page to find it. It seemed simple enough.
AppleScript to Add Files in the Mac Finder
I had the need to add several named text files to a project folder in the Finder on my Mac today. This is the AppleScript I developed to solve it.