Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Make a #project w/ do-able sized parts   AllisonDGraham   @ StephCalahan make a list. Click on any of theself-evaluator tools below and receive your results online immediately! family of sites · 8 Shoreline, Suite 100, Bloomington IL 61704 TEL 309.663.1360 · FAX 309.422.7665 Are You as Productive as You Could Be?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Ask yourself whether or not those documents will be relevant to your work in the coming year – completed projects and last year’s receipts should not be living in your active files! Or did you just have a hard time getting started on those bigger, more important projects? Start with your reference, client, and financial files.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 6, 2010

  That started a deeper conversation that led to us talking on the phone and deciding to work together on a teleconference project scheduled for January.    If you leave those fields blank, you are not using your tools as effectively as possile. .  Are You as Productive as You Could Be?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

  Get rid of the activities and projects (and sometimes even people) that don't fit.    Do you let other people encroach on your time when you had planned to work on an important project?  Click on any of theself-evaluator tools below and receive your results online immediately! What do you think? 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 17, 2010

Also consider color-coding the index cards by project.   The trick is picking the tool that works best for the way you think and work. Click on any of theself-evaluator tools below and receive your results online immediately! “At the beginning of the day, put your cards in order, with the most important item on top.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 23, 2009

First of all, there is not a perfect tool or a perfect system. There are myriad options available and each one of us has to figure out what tool (or combination of tools) will work for us. So, this answer is based on my experimentation with the two main tools the question above refers to - a planner and a tickler file system.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 16, 2010

Do you have a large list of abandoned projects all sitting at various levels of incompletion? Do you have a list of projects that do not reflect your best work? Click on any of theself-evaluator tools below and receive your results online immediately! Are you in charge of leading your business or department?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 21, 2009

However, even if she'd jumped onto that project, the lost productivity associated with the original distraction would still creep back into her day when she returned to the task we were completing. Click on any of theself-evaluator tools below and receive your results online immediately! Are You as Productive as You Could Be?

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The Small Business Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Tools like Basecamp, WebEx, Skype, etc. You quickly find these attributes make the difference between a successful project and just pissing your money and credibility away. Outsourcing Options For Small Business Focus on your business, timeshare professionals.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 22, 2010

  Do you find yourself jumping from one project to another?    One day it is one project and then the next day a different “ bright shiny object ” comes into view and we switch off to that.    We are so busy jumping from project to project that we never really complete any of them. . 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 30, 2010

What are the key projects to be completed this year?   Completing projects and tasks is harder than ever for most of my clients.    So, the next time you have a project that is important consider the following: Block the time on your calendar.    Then, work on your project fully focused. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

  She did not have faith in her tools and did not have a consistent way to reference or write out her objectives.  If you have a big project due, break down the steps necessary and write those on each card. Click on any of theself-evaluator tools below and receive your results online immediately!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

  By grabbing a small project (for example, an article that you want to read) and working on it for a short period of time, you take a few minutes away from the work that was putting you into an afternoon coma-like state.    You also release serotonin/happiness/excitement as you finish a project. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 28, 2011

Work With Stephanie « 6 Tools to Help You Manage Large Projects with Local & Virtual Teams | Main | Monday Motivation - Michael Jordan on Failure » My first Twitterview with @marciahoeck - Decisive Productive Action Taken A little while back, I wrote to you about my theme for this year: decisive productive action. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

  Some say the traditional paper planner is the best, while others swear by their smart-phone or on line tool.  "   They provide tips to help you decide as well as some recommended tools. If paper works for you (as it does for me and so many others), we can be happy that we have a tool that works!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 22, 2010

"To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. Are You as Productive as You Could Be?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 5, 2010

  What tools do you use? afreshspace   @ StephCalahan I just use a legal pad for daily to-do's but keep bigger or future projects in my outlook task list declutterlady   @ StephCalahan Hey, Stephanie, it's iPEP for me; 1 workspace/project w/ability to keep all in 1 place!   What tools do you use?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 14, 2010

A - True B - False 4 -- You got side tracked in a project and have forgotten lunch with a colleague/business associate.  Click on any of theself-evaluator tools below and receive your results online immediately! family of sites · 8 Shoreline, Suite 100, Bloomington IL 61704 TEL 309.663.1360 · FAX 309.422.7665

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

I stand back, and begin moving notes until the ideas start flowing into easy categories: Blog, Projects, Home, Family, Health - etc. The best tool for this is Post-It notes. But ironically, all that unfinished "little stuff" can stress us out more than the big projects we haven't gotten around to yet.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 13, 2010

I’ve turned down a few projects because I knew they were scams or they used unethical tactics. As a rule, I can work for about 3 hours on one project before getting a little loopy, so I move on to something else in the afternoon. James: Think back to a project when you’d done a really great job – an awesome job.

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