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Simplify Your Filing System and Retire Your To-File Pile

All Things Admin

When was the last time you made an effort to catch up on your filing? Many times, we struggle with filing because it feels overwhelming, we’re not sure where to begin, or we don’t have an easy system in place. Filing can be inconvenient and time consuming. But there are ways to simplify your filing system. Last month?

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How to Write a Book: Advice for New Writers

Success

I’d love to give you a secret formula for how to write a book. Having written two books now, I can tell you it is as hard as people say it is. For example, some people are great at setting aside small amounts of time to write every day. In this week’s SUCCESS Stories , I explain my personal approach to writing books.

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Master Your Memory with Ron White

Success

Your goal might not be to enter a memory competition, but you might have a simpler goal to be able to remember names and faces, or what you read in a magazine or a book, or to give speeches without notes or memorize product knowledge.”. Now imagine taking all the files out of the folders in your computer and dumping them on the desktop.

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How to Showcase Work Samples in Your Professional Portfolio: Travel Planning Example

All Things Admin

The following are some examples of how to document your travel planning abilities in your professional portfolio. This may be helpful if I don’t have a lot of work samples and want to add multiple files to my social portfolio on LinkedIn or my digital portfolio site. Here is an example: [link].

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Your Brain Is the Greatest Computer Ever Created

Success

Simply turn the key points into pictures and then file them in your memory according to the method of loci. For example, I gave a one-hour keynote in Atlanta at a home-builders conference. I wrote my speech out the night before and filed key points in my memory palace. That can work for you as well.

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Borders Books – An Example of Understanding the Customer Relationship

Make or Break Moments

Borders Books announced yesterday that it is filing Chapter 11. The economy has taken its toll on all businesses, some more than others. But add to that fact, changing technology and the change in consumer buying habits and you have a more challenging operational situation. On the same day I received a detailed email from the [.].

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10 Easy Ways to Start Something Great

Success

In my research for my book, Make Waves: Be the One to Start Change at Work and in Life , I’ve learned that those who start change are incrementalists. Read a few books that push your thinking. Don’t view a book as the bible on your topic, but to spur ideas. None of these first steps are daunting. Don’t go in with a set plan yet.

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