A Learning a Day

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Tools->Macro->Visual Basic Editor..

Copy and paste in ‘Thisoutlooksession’

Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
Dim m As Variant
Dim strBody As String
Dim intIn As Long
Dim intAttachCount As Integer, intStandardAttachCount As Integer

On Error GoTo handleError

‘Edit the following line if you have a signature on your email that includes images or other files. Make intStandardAttachCount equal the number of files in your signature.
intStandardAttachCount = 0

strBody = LCase(Item.Body)

intIn = InStr(1, strBody, “original message”)

If intIn = 0 Then intIn = Len(strBody)

intIn = InStr(1, Left(strBody, intIn), “attach”)

intAttachCount = Item.Attachments.Count

If intIn > 0 And intAttachCount <= intStandardAttachCount Then

m = MsgBox(“It appears that you mean to send an attachment,” & vbCrLf & “but there is no attachment to this message.” & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & “Do you still want to send?”, vbQuestion + vbYesNo + vbMsgBoxSetForeground)

If m = vbNo Then Cancel = True

End If

handleError:

If Err.Number 0 Then
MsgBox “Outlook Attachment Reminder Error: ” & Err.Description, vbExclamation, “Outlook Attachment Reminder Error”
End If

End Sub

Thanks Bruno for arousing my interest..

http://digital-photography-school.com/10-ways-to-take-stunning-portraits

a whole host of learnings to share.. newsletters first! :)

20 Ways to Screw Up Your Management Career:

Stop asking questions. Think or act like you know it all. Think you can stop learning.

Take it personally. Business is about business. Conflict over business, products, and services is healthy and good. It’s not about you.

Micromanage. The converse – being too hands off – can be just as bad.

Distance yourself from employees. Think you’re above “management by walking around.”

Distance yourself from customers. Take your eye off the ball … the ball that matters most.
Play it safe. Success means growth, growth means taking risks – analytical, not frivolous, though.

Test moral, ethical, or legal limits. Slippery slope.

Hire yes-men (or women) you can control. Even worse, be a yes-man thinking it’ll get you places.

Overpromise and under-deliver. Success is all about results.

Engage your mouth before your brain. More people screw up by talking than any other way.

Stick to your guns. Commitment and focus are critical, but inflexibility in the face of internal or external change makes you a dinosaur.

Work beneath your capability. Your reach should always exceed your grasp.

Ignore what the market is telling you. Think you know better than what customers tell you. Then there’s the reverse problem:

Ignore your gut instincts.
Fight too many battles on too many fronts.

Coast. Driven people don’t coast well.

Focus solely on your own little world. Silo mentality is dysfunctional, bigtime.

Become big and bloated. Grow your domain for its own sake.

Lose your sense of humor and humility.

Let your inner child reign. Nothing will kill your career faster than failing to act like an adult. 20 Ways to Screw Up Your Management Career:

Learnings on Sunday/Monday.. :)

before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.- Churchill

with only 1 task in the middle. All un-done tasks on top and done on the bottom.. Shoudl start implementing!

but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.– Herm Albright

Ha ha..

keep your eye on the ball..

A close friend just landed an offer. We are all searching for full time jobs and the search has been far from fruitful in most cases except for this friend who has received an offer from the place she interned in the summer. Oh and its a very good offer..

Hence, day before yesterday was a very happy day. And I had called up family to convey the good news. Now, I was mentally prepared for the ‘oh.. that’s great, but what’s the situation with you’ question which can be pretty annoying. It goes down to history, all the mistakes you could have committed, like in my case, I could have done a normal internship etc and blah blah..

Yeah, obviously I do know the many things I ‘could’ have done. But, lets not get into that..

So, mom picked up.. I gave her the news and she said that’s great. :) And we had a nice congratulatory talk and we moved on to the next subject. PERIOD..

There was no talk about my search. She knew I was trying hard and I wanted it as much as anyone else.. she didn’t compare, she didn’t question..

That silence on the topic was priceless. I haven’t been able to thank her for it.. haven’t been able to express how much that meant. The fact that she did not mention it showed her utmost confidence in me.. and her acceptance of me for who I am and for what I have done, and an acceptance of the decisions I have taken for. You see, these are tough times even if I have been confident of the rights in what I have done… these times shake that confidence..

And having my mother’s silent reassurance meant more to me at that moment than anything else in the world. There was a lot said in that moment, unintentionally..

The moment passed, I did not mention it to her.. until today when the rest of my family brought this up and those inevitable questions came up questioning the past.. but I kept my cool.. There was a searing impulse to snap, but just the thought of my mother’s reassurance calmed me down..

Thank you mom. I can’t express that meant from me. I guess I have gotten so used to you that I forgot to even acknowledge it but a whiff of the real world and I realized what I had been missing..

Thank you.. I love you! :)