Problem: Article: Use your past mistakes as teaching moments for the future. Show your boss your ability to improve by documenting the mistake and any insights you learned as a result. This is helpful for you in terms of preventing similar errors to come, and also helps demonstrate progress when you come up for evaluation at work. Many times an error paves the way for innovation. Share an idea with your boss about a way you intend on changing your approach, so these types of errors don't happen again. Any major changes will usually require agreement from your boss. However, brainstorming new approaches at least shows initiative. Take special care to manage your tasks. This way, you have the time to focus on completing them one at time so you are not risking making needless mistakes. Take this mistake as a chance to look at other things you may need to change about your work habits. You might need to clean up your desk to avoid losing important papers or find a better way to manage emails to avoid using the wrong email list. Getting clarification can save you time in the long run since you won't need to re-do things later. Don't feel like you are bothering someone by asking for help. If you are polite and considerate in your requests, others are likely to enjoy offering a helping hand. Pay attention and learn from those around you. Ask for specific and hands-on instruction so you can figure out what you were missing before and move on. Often, it is one step you have missed in the process or something small that makes a big difference. Show your appreciation for the help and be sure to implement the strategies you've learned. Actually putting new skills into play shows that you have gratitude and makes others more likely to help if you should need to ask again. If you feel like you never have enough time in the day while at work, imagine how much worse it could be if you need to fix another big mess. Start a to-do list and learn to manage your time better so you are not rushing through tasks and overlooking important steps. Beating yourself up can actually make the problem worse. Everyone makes mistakeseven your boss, at some point. Practice self-forgiveness and be sure that you learned from the issue so that it doesn't happen again. Your boss will appreciate the fact that you consciously made an effort to improve yourself after a mistake.
Summary: Document lessons learned. Avoid multi-tasking. Ask for help when you don't know how to do something. Slow down. Don't be hard on yourself.

Problem: Article: If you don't know how to get into shape, read some fitness blogs about training. If you have never planned an event before, search online for an event planner, so that you can see how other people break the task down. There are thousands of experts on the Internet and at your local library. Use these resources to get a head start. You don't have to start from scratch if someone has already made a planner for you. Personalize to-do lists that you found to fit your desires and schedule. Aim small and do more as your motivation increases. Psychologically, it is better to tick off more boxes than let a box go unchecked for weeks. Try to stay motivated for 10 minutes at a time. Power working, instead of working in hour-long blocks can increase your drive and productivity. Devote 15 minutes to the project each day. Once you complete the 15 minutes, place a large "x" on a calendar day. With each day, week and month you accomplish your 15 minutes, it will be harder to break the chain. Just 15 minutes a day is enough to develop a good habit over the course of a few weeks or months. There are several dozen desktop app and device apps that make it more fun to check a box on a to-do list. Try apps like Evernote, Pocket, Clear, CheckMark or MindNode.
Summary: Do research to find examples. Break each month's goal into smaller goals. Make each "action item" require approximately eight to ten minutes. Try a "Don't break the chain" approach. Invest in a productivity app.

Problem: Article: Decide whether you want to view your block letters from above or below, and whether you want them to face to the right or the left. If you were looking at them straight on from the front, they'd just look like ordinary block letters, so you have to tilt them to make it 3D. Your vantage point will determine the direction your draw your diagonal lines in the next step. Be sure to draw all of the lines so that they tilt in the same direction. If it helps, choose a vanishing point in the background. Then, use a straight edge to line up each line with that vanishing point before you draw it. If you're viewing your letters from above, the lines should tilt up. If you're viewing from below, they should tilt down. Draw the lines to the right if you want your letter facing left and to the right if you want them facing right. Practice drawing these lines in different directions until you figure out what you like. Most people draw their block letters viewed from above. Use horizontal, vertical, and curved lines to connect the ends of the diagonal lines. This will be drawing the back side of the letters. Think of it like drawing a cube, where you first draw a square, then small diagonal lines, and then connect the lines in another square. It's just like that, except the shapes are letters instead of squares.
Summary: Choose a vantage point for your letters to make them 3D. Draw small diagonal lines from the corners of your letters in pencil. Connect the ends of the diagonal lines together.

Problem: Article: Look at yourself in a mirror and time how long you can maintain eye contact without blinking. You can also have a staring contest with someone else to test your ability. Having full command over your eye movements will help you maintain steady eye contact with the other person during the hypnosis. Do this by looking at a close object, like a pen or pencil and then a distant object in the room. Hold the pencil close to your face. Focus on the pencil. Move from focusing on the pencil to an object that is further away, like a picture on the wall or a doorknob. Return to focusing on the pencil. Then focus on the distant object. Continue practicing this to improve your focus flexibility. This is your ability to see objects and movements on either side of you without having to turn your head. To improve this ability: Sit in a busy scene outside on a sidewalk. Or sit in front of a TV or computer screen that is playing a busy scene. Try to look at the busy scene with your head turned to one side. Then, look at the scene with your head turned to other other side. Try to see as much of the scene as possible on either side. Make sure you practice from the left and from the right.
Summary:
Try to maintain eye contact for long periods of time without blinking. Practice your ability to focus with your eyes. Improve your peripheral awareness.