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The Three Day Productivity Retreat Everyone Needs

Productivityist

I recently took a three-day productivity retreat—I noticed that I was falling behind on projects, freelance work, and my own writing and that I simply couldn’t catch up. A wall calendar. You are working on your big project. Maybe you want to get out of credit card debt by a certain date. Go deep on this list.

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How to Get Organized Using Lists

Ian's Messy Desk

These are a few of the lists he keeps on his handheld device: Account and $ numbers - credit card #s, PIN #s, etc. ( Birthdays - (if you don’t put them on your digital calendar system), group by date, as reviewable (those during a month, put in tickler for that month, etc.). Address Book. Anniversary. Personal information.

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The Three Day Productivity Retreat Everyone Needs

Productivityist

I recently took a productivity retreat—I noticed that I was falling behind on projects, freelance work, and my writing. A wall calendar. You are working on your big project. Maybe you want to get out of credit card debt by a certain date. Whatever it is, get it down on a calendar. I simply couldn’t catch up.

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Best Business Technology for Small Businesses & Their Owners (28 ideas from them to you!)

Stephanie LH Calahan

Oh, did I mention that your meeting confirmation hits your google, outlook or web calendar as well as generates a confirmation email. We have also oftentimes found that one of us is working on a project before we have had a chance to talk about it because we can see the updates when we look at the folders. You won't regret it.

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My Time Management Reboot: The Pros and Cons of Electronic Systems and Why I Created a Hybrid

Eat Your Career

You see, for the past several years, I’ve been using a variety of tech tools to help organize my life and work—appointments, tasks, projects and more. Some online task and project management systems are more up to speed on this kind of thing and have apps for your phone to make capturing information easy even when you’re offline.

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The 10 Best Goal Setting Apps to Help You Stay on Track

Success

Make sure you know what you’re signing up for and read the cancellation policy before entering your credit card information. An app can have many exciting features, like monitoring multiple goals, a task manager or to-do lists, access to a personal coach and integration with your calendar or other apps.

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Answering Reader Mail: Green EA, Green Executive

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I was hoping that you might have insight/advice on how to create project work/better assist a C-Level exec that has never had an admin before. Since we are both somewhat green, I was hoping that you might have some suggestions to spark project work (both business and personal related projects would be helpful).