Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Memory Makeover: Tips to Spruce Up an Absent Mind Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on October 20, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. So hang up the phone, find a quiet place and focus. Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 25, 2010

Make an appointment - Don’t just hope you find the time to clean up, set a calendar entry and stick to it. Organizer ( paper or electronic) to enter to-dos, addresses or calendar data. Use the right tools: Set a timer for the length of time you have decided to work on this project.

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Andrea Kalli

MAY 15, 2010

By AndreaKalli Every once in awhile we all get the urge to freshen things up on our sites. Time to Jazz Up Your Website Social Buttons? Often, business owners find themselves so caught up in their paperwork or their day-to-day operations that they forget about… Continue reading the rest of this article. Cool and Funky.

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Productivity Bits

OCTOBER 1, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Productivity Bits. But on Fridays, Travis, Misti and I would jump in my truck, spend an hour creeping up to Tijuana’s famous border crossing and head up to sunny San Diego. It was a big, fat foam board on which we could stand up and go strait – there was no turning that beast. Guest Post.

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Ian's Messy Desk

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Image via Wikipedia There’s nothing like a major holiday, such as Christmas, to ratchet up the pressure on your schedule. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Holiday Time Management Tip – Share the Workload Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on November 3, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 23, 2009

- How to Use Both For Optimal Professional & Personal Productivity (guest post by Meggin McIntosh) A question that often comes up in workshops as well as on my blog is this one: How do you suggest people use their calendar (planner) in conjunction with the tickler (1-31) files? What are your thoughts in this area? "The Ph.D.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 17, 2011

One Monday morning, while digging through their typically cluttered inboxes, Jeremy and Adam came up with a concept to develop a dead-simple reminder system, based entirely in email, that would let them stay on top of important emails without having to create complicated rules or learn any new systems.   Get your calendar on the go. 

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Productivity Bits

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. In order to organize these papers, set up a box where each document type can be placed on your desk. As with other programs, it is so easy to lose sight of your goals. It is important to clean your office area every day so that you don’t end up with enormous mess within a couple of months.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 12, 2010

We expend energy rushing through the day trying to keep up with ourselves. Drop those lesser priorities, which do not advance you towards reaching you goal(s). List #1 – The weekly calendar. List #3 – Goals and plans Avoid Distractions and Lack of Focus. It’s easy lose sight of long-term goals.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 10, 2010

Great tips and tricks for productive use of the To Do’s, Calendar, Email, Contacts, and more. This handbook automatically leaps ahead of other Notes/GTD options available as it takes you through setting up a GTD system using a basic Notes installation; no need for add-ons to make it work.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 25, 2010

Have a Centralized Calendar. A family calendar can help you track what is going on for all family members. Round up your papers. Tighten up current household systems. They don’t want to think about school a day earlier than necessary. Keep it in a centralized location where family members can easily add their events.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 17, 2010

Set up spreadsheets for monthly and weekly tasks. If something else comes up, reorder the cards,” she says. Once you finish an item, rip the card up and throw it away. Immediately add that task to your digital calendar or task list, and set a reminder on your calendar closer to the due date.

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Loosely Speaking

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

&# It’s such a good choice for me and is working so well in my daily decision making, that it might end up being my theme for the entire decade. A lot of colleagues are finding VA Classroom to be a good fit for their professional training goals. RSS Comments RSS Subscribe in a reader Copyright 2004. Loose Ends.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 26, 2010

You don’t want papers to build up to the point where you look at it and you get discouraged. The easiest way to avoid that is to keep up to date. If you do keep stuff, keep it in a way so that it doesn’t jam up your life and you can find it again. Record meeting information on your calendar, then toss the memo.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 31, 2010

10 Tips for Taking Back Christmas – If you find you are getting caught up in spending too much and want to change your focus this Christmas, here are 10 simple things you can do to “take back”the holiday. Advent Calendar Resources On-line – November 28 marks the start of the Advent season.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

APRIL 5, 2010

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets © Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 5 April, 2010 When your boss arranges meetings behind your back. He will have a quick conversation with a staff member and set up a meeting, but not tell me anything about it.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 7, 2011

January 20, 2011 2:00 PM CST (12:00 PM PST- 1:00 PM  MT- 3:00 PM EST) For 60 Minutes Learn how to battle the top time-stealers and take control of your office once-and-for-all with expert advice from productivity consultant and coach Stephanie LH Calahan Mark Your Calendar and Sign Up Today! Sign Up Today!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 15, 2009

  I wanted to give you a little heads up about some short-term changes for my blog.  PS -- If you did not read my post about the Great Organizing Giveaway , you must mark your calendars for January 25th!   I wanted to give you a little heads up about some short-term changes for my blog.  To your success!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Work With Stephanie « Clean up the Clutter on Your Facebook Newsfeed | Main | Mon. I want to support that success, so I've decided to open my calendar and offer a limited number of f'ree strategy sessions via telephone or skype. Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You?

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Andrea Kalli

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Copyright law is complex, except when you keep your property. The internet has certainly thrown a few arguments the way of copyright lawyers. Often, business owners find themselves so caught up in their paperwork or their day-to-day operations that they forget about… Continue reading the rest of this article.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. 6 days ago RT @ WinWeb Focus on Your Small Business Goals - [link] 6 days ago Perluondo: "They're exactly the demographics I'm looking for." Use a specific business calendar to keep a reminder of your schedule. Be ruthless with your filing.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

» 6 Tips to Save You Time and Wasted Effort We are really close to wrapping up time management month!  If you change your relationship to time and the way you think about it overall, it becomes easier to align your activities and tasks with your so-called time management goals. A different take on the to-do list.

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 20, 2010

Almost all business was pushed towards the number one ranking — the outlier at the top ended up taking an irrationally large slice of the pie. Now that the goal is no longer the universal number one spot, businesses have near unlimited choice, and a much greater range of opportunity. Now, things are slightly different.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 11, 2010

There’s a lot of common sense wrapped up in these steps. Unfortunately, our calendars and to-do lists often get in the way of common sense. Psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky , of the University of California, has conducted considerable research in the area of personal satisfaction. The following eight points summarize her findings.

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Andrea Kalli

APRIL 19, 2010

My goal is to do as much audio and video blogging from my iPhone as possible. Both of them are now set up to auto-push to this blog (well, hopefully), and the videos also automatically post to IVAA’s YouTube account at [link]. Thats why I am recommending them to you with a big THUMBS UP! At least that’s the plan.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 5, 2010

Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal becomes a mini goal in itself. kmmarketing   @ StephCalahan I enter important to-dos as calendar items in my iPhone. I set up alerts to remind me that they're coming up. To dos in back.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 10, 2010

Imagine finishing all of your urgent tasks each day and having the freedom to accomplish your highest level goals. and how to achieve your most heartfelt goals more effortlessly and in a fraction of the time. Imagine starting and ending every day with an empty email inbox. Imagine the joy of being on top of your work. The fact is.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Here are two areas where you can increase your value to your boss : (1) Be a problem-solver Problems crop up all the time in business. If you can relate the problem to another situation entirely, it can help you come up with answers not available before. Pick up on subtle cues from your boss’s behavior and adopt appropriate behavior.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Go to [link] You’ll be able to sign up for free resources such as e-books, tip sheets, audio programs and more, all on the subject of time management!   Once you receive the material, make sure that you schedule time on your calendar to consume it and take action.   Time is the one thing you can’t make more of.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Secure the date and time in his or her calendar, taking into consideration travel time if outside the office. State the purpose of the meeting in the calendar appointment as well as who will be at the meeting (i.e.

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Andrea Kalli

JUNE 21, 2010

There is a reason that only a few of the thousands of article marketers out there actually end up breaking through and making it big. Do not linger on thoughts endlessly and end up getting nowhere. Your goal as a content marketer is not to have the best and most intriguing content around. 4) Don’t overwrite, underwrite.

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Productivity Bits

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. You don’t actually try closing them out but must control them so that they won’t blow you up into pieces. The only thing that you can do is to prevent the build up of new “open loops&# on top of your existing “open loops&#. Visit the original article at [link].

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Work With Stephanie | Contact Copyright 2007-2010 Calahan Solutions, Inc. -- All Rights Reserved Want to use my content in your ezine, newsletter or blog?   My buddy Paul Burton does all of the time.    It is one of his productivity specialities.    Consider this one.    Consider this one. 

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JUNE 14, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets © Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 14 June, 2009 Meeting preparation. My favourite to-do list is a calendar timeline so I can see at a glance where I am at and what I need to do to get there. No surprises!

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Ian's Messy Desk

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Organize Your Food If you plan on entertaining during the holiday season, plan your meals and every time you go shopping, stock up on any non-perishable items or frozen items you will need. Take a stock of your pantry and fill it up with necessary items. Make sure that nothing will break down at a critical moment in your celebration.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets © Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 13 February, 2010 Dealing in real time. If it is a big project I use a calendar and write down all my required to-dos on the dates I need to get them done to make my deadline.

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Andrea Kalli

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Businesses seize up and becomes near impossible to scale, and what was once a profitable empire simply withers and dies. Much like the dying strip mall became an endemic when foot traffic stopped, once profitable online companies frequently close up shop when the traffic dries and moves elsewhere.

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