Over the past several years, I have read and seen multiple references to a practice called Visualization, which is when a person rehearses a physical action by performing the task mentally.
Examples that come to mind are the NASA astronaut training program, Olympic athletes, and the Navy's Blue Angels. 
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Quite some time ago, I wrote a short article on using the Bit attribute type within CRM.
Today, I thought I'd like to take some time to review some tips that may not be totally obvious when you first start working with Bit attributes.
The method that you will use to interact with the Bit attribute will […]

One of my current projects required that we have, more or less, an audit log for completion of tasks.  This can be easily accomplished using a CRM 4.0 workflow, using the following variables:

When the workflow is run, it will produce the following results:
 
In this particular case, we are actually creating a task, then setting […]

I have spent my last two weekends reinstalling CRM 3.0 at two separate customers because of hardware rebuilds or server reconfigurations.  I have no idea how many times I've installed CRM 3.0 but it is more than a handful so I've pretty much got it down to a science.
That being said, I have learned some […]

I visited a customer in Waco, Texas yesterday.  They had a TV in the lobby so I was watching the morning news while waiting for him to arrive.
In one 30 minute period, here is what I saw:

Marijuana makes teenagers depressed.
In an act of revenge, some teenage girls in California blew up a house.
An 8 year […]

I thought we were all through with the Daylight Savings Time (DST) issues, but I was wrong.
One of my customers purchased a newer, more powerful, SBS 2003 box and we had to migrate CRM 3.0 from the old server to the new server.
Overall, everything went fine. Redeployment manager did it's job, CRM installed to the […]

If you put lemon juice on things like avocado to keep them from browning, what do you put on lemons?