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Get More Out of Less Time

Planning, Sleep and Vacations Make More Time Than They Take

By: Alison Marek
Nov 5, 2010

Is your day too busy to think about what you're doing next? Are you so overwhelmed you don't have time to sleep? Do you consider vacations a luxury that only the unemployed can afford? Next month, a bevy of experts in TDmonthly Magazine will beg you to reconsider. If you don't plan ahead and regenerate, they say, you will continue to be overwhelmed.

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Alison MarekWriter's Bio: ALISON MAREK is an award-winning writer, director and cartoonist whose work has been published by Fairchild Publications and DC Comics (Piranha Press), broadcast on Showtime and other cable networks, and viewed worldwide in film festivals. See her short films and print work on www.alisonmarek.com. Watch her nefarious villains in the web series www.MuggsMovers.com. Get inspired by her cartoons "Daily ARFFirmations to Unleash Your Inner Fido" at www.ARFFirmations.com. Phew! And then ...  Read more articles by this author


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