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Ian's Messy Desk
JULY 6, 2010
Phone ringing? When I’m doing important work, I also switch off my phone. Or defer it to a later period. 12 – Block out distractions. What’s distracting you in your work? Instant messages? Text messages popping in? I hardly ever use chat nowadays. The only times when I log on is when I’m not intending to do any work.
The Small Business Blog
NOVEMBER 9, 2009
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Ian's Messy Desk
JUNE 2, 2010
Then, you’re back in the office after a long unplanned break: the message light on the phone is blinking; both your e-mail and hard-copy in-boxes are overflowing; last week’s next actions are now overdue; you staff and my manager all want a piece of you; and you just want to go home a crawl back into bed.
Laughing all the Way to Work
OCTOBER 6, 2009
it requires a firm culture that discusses recovery openly and strongly support it -both in action and written policy. and hopefully, they have supportive procedures and policies in place to help them." I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine."
Ian's Messy Desk
SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
Updated and reposted from May 2008 1) Always Look Ahead It is human nature to want to live in the past: to savour accomplishments or to wallow in defeats. Make all your outgoing phone calls at the same time. 5) Plan your phone calls Time spent on a phone call can easily get out of hand if you don’t have a plan in place.
Ian's Messy Desk
JUNE 16, 2010
Make all your outgoing phone calls at the same time; organize your errands into a single run; reply to e-mail; etc. Comment by David C on May 14, 2008 @ 5:15 pm I like this post. Comment by Rhonda on May 14, 2008 @ 7:32 pm David, thanks for heads-up on the book. Save time by performing like tasks together. I have loads of them.
Ian's Messy Desk
OCTOBER 22, 2010
I believe Tony Robbins said that the art of communicating a “word&# or “meaning&# to another human, consists of 3 parts: The written word: 17% – Tone of voice: 34% – Body language: 49% This means an email is very inefficient (17%), while talking on the phone is worth 51% (17+34). That is worth a whopping 100%.
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