Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 25, 2010

Organizer ( paper or electronic) to enter to-dos, addresses or calendar data. Process the paper – take the items you sorted into boxes and put them where they belong: filing, your tickler or reading folder or delegate/refer to a more appropriate person, etc. Boxes or storage containers to use for sorting.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 28, 2010

For many organizations, e-mail has become the preferred means of communication, both formal and informal. Most e-mail software will automate this process for you. Develop at set of personal rules for processing your email in a productive way. A sloppy e-mail message will communicate negatively about your professionalism.

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 9, 2010

Do you keep reminding yourself to do things that you think you “should do” but don’t really need or want to do – like arranging your vacation photos into a photo album, alphabetizing your bookshelf, sending out holiday cards? At some point in the process, you might hit the “overwhelm wall.” Do yourself a favour – delete them.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 12, 2010

We make the process easy from the estimate to the delivery. The Mind Mapping Manifesto The Bubble Planner GoalPro Goal-Setting Software find company christmas gift ideas - Buy one share of stock: Disney, Harley Davidson, Target, eBay, etc furniture shipping - is easy with ShipSmart.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 28, 2010

While forms of technology are making inroads into the communication process, the telephone is still an important source of contact with people. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap A Telephone Etiquette Test Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on May 28, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 27, 2010

The process of thinking up the images and making the connection will fix them into your memory. Let the name invoke a visual image you can link with the person’s face. Small uses the example : If Mrs. Beatty has broad lips, imagine Warren Beatty kissing those lips.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 6, 2010

It really streamlines the process. For example, my work can be categorized into these core groups: (1) writing (articles, my upcoming book) (2) coaching (3) workshop development (4) business development (5) administrative. I batch all the related tasks together so there’s synergy.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 2, 2010

Process: Once you’ve collected all the open loops, figure out what you need to do to close them. Prioritize: Next, you can organize the action steps into lists of what you’re going to do. Comment by Ian Hunter on May 30, 2007 @ 2:18 pm Ian: that’s a good point and the process would certainly work for any kind of absence.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 7, 2010

If yours is an organization that encourages less-formal communication, you may find people dropping by to discuss anything from last night’s big game to next week’s big presentation. com) Related Posts: Top Five Posts for March 2007 8 common time wasters 10 Tips to Help You Stay Organized Productivity Did you enjoy this post?

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The encoding stage refers to the process of putting information into memory. Stay organized. Use each room or landmark on your journey to “signpost” different parts of the speech or each step of the process you need to remember. The storage stage refers to retention or maintaining information in memory. Take a fresh perspective.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The date and time will be important if need to support a process for certification or legal reasons. Needless to say, a telephone number comes in handy when you need get back to the caller. The date and time of the call is essential. This will help you recall the conversation.

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 16, 2010

1) Organize Lack of organization is one of the major causes of anxiety. Taking the time to be organized will give you more confidence, which in turn will allow you to focus energy into your presentation. 3) Practice In addition to mentally visualizing the process, you need to practice your presentation as you will give it.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 30, 2010

Even if you process 1,000 sheets of page this week, you won’t have done much more than ten pounds worth of work. Stop exaggerating I’ve said it a million times, don’t exaggerate! How often have you said something like, “I have a ton of work to do this week?&# Keep a reasonable perspective on the things you have to do.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 12, 2010

Good time management processes let you concentrate on one thing at a time. In order to save yourself a lot of time for more productive activities, ensure that you stay organized and that your environment is conducive to an effective lifestyle. Habits can be difficult to modify, but the effects are beneficial and rewarding.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 31, 2010

We make the process easy from the estimate to the delivery. The Mind Mapping Manifesto The Bubble Planner GoalPro Goal-Setting Software christmas gifts idea - Buy one share of stock: Disney, Harley Davidson, Target, eBay, etc furniture shipping - is easy with ShipSmart.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 8 November, 2009 Preparing your boss for meetings away from the office or at home I had a good tip from my boss that I have used to help me prepare him for meetings whether they are away or at home. Follow up with the meeting organizer to request agenda and/or meeting materials, pre-reading, etc.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 9, 2010

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 9 May, 2010 Building Relationships one Assistant at a Time Assistants are in contact with other assistants on a daily basis. If I hear from the assistant I know I am going to get answers and the process of setting up a meeting will go smoothly, but should I try to develop a working relationship with them?

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 17, 2010

We have a sense that motivation is a positive process and that somehow it is connected to success. Updated from June 2007 Related articles by Zemanta Get Organized: Finding the Motivation to Start (getorganizedtips.blogspot.com) 9 Proven Ways To Charge Up Your Motivation (e1evation.com) What’s My Motivation?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 3, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   It is Get Organized Month and now is a great time to focus on your personal affairs.    Read, sort and process your email and snail mail daily.  Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Link Lineup!   Then use the system.    Avoid backlog. 

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Organizations are working to help them size up. Starting a Small Business? On-Demand Small Business Infrastructure™ allows you to run your business online. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. External Links External Links SynergyOne.co.uk

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 13, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 13 January, 2009 Is it that time of the year already? In some organizations raises are tied to how well you do and it is also a record that is kept on your personnel file. I think that during the process of your performance appraisal it would be a good time to bring it up, but I never have.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 15, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 15 March, 2009 When you need it later: The Bring-Forward System My boss likes me to keep him organized and the way I do that is to have a system to bring forward items, which I then bring to his attention when he needs to see it. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine."

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 7, 2010

A process of elimination will begin and one particular area may get traction through luck and coincidence that starts to feel like the front-runner. To vividly imagine what you want allows you to clarify your desires and it also involves your emotions in the process, which provides added power.

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Ideas.Ted

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

And the contagion of seeing others act, says behavioral economist Robert Frank, can spread “more like outbreaks of measles or chicken pox than a process of rational choice.” Then, just before Christmas two years ago, my husband surprised me by saying he’d bought us solar panels as a holiday gift. . Copyright ©2021.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 23, 2010

Keep a Journal – Instead bottling up your feelings and thoughts express them in a journal, which will provide a sense of relief and could serve as the first step in a more problem-solving process to resolving underlying issues. Laugh – Laughter is considered one of the best medicines for stress.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

As soon as you believe, as a person or organization, that you are more important than the next person or organization, arrogance and disdain creeps into your tone. The (Mis)Adventures of Mike: Mapping out business processes Reply Mark W. And happy holidays, Akemi – Yes to Me´s last blog. Eliza´s last blog.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 14, 2010

The starting point in this process is to develop a deliberate and systematic approach to networking throughout your career. Even if they attend organization meetings, they often end up associating with people who are neither particularly ambitious or well-connected. You begin your networking process at your place of work.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 24, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 24 May, 2009 Word and Outlook 2007 tips I use Word 2007 at my new job and have never really had a chance to go through it to find the quick tips and how-tos that I had in Word 2003. I find it really slows down the process and I have the Check Grammar While You Type on so feel that is enough.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 28, 2010

A while back, Coopers & Lybrand (now Price Waterhouse Coopers ) released data from a poll on personal organization. Even with an in-basket, you need to process your mail daily to avoid accumulating a stack of paper. How much stuff do you have sitting on your desk or in your work area? Get rid of sticky notes and scraps of paper.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 6, 2010

You’ve heard your speech…your audience hasn’t and needs time to process it. Silence is better than idling. Pace, pace, pace. Speak more slowly than you think is right. Record and playback. Use a camcorder or recorder to practice.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Main | Start 2011 off Organized! Let the blood go to your brain (the thinking organ) and away from your legs and arms. of A Clear Path: Professional Organizing For Home, Work, Life 4. Thanks to Ann Acquaviva of The Creative Organizer LLC 5. Stop, Think And Re-engage 1.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

MCE Holiday Gift Guide—for you, for customers, and for special people on your list Reply poch November 25, 2009 at 8:13 am This is now getting to be a problem of mine as a freelancer. Trust me, I have worked for both churches and charitable organizations and they *know* they are running a business. Good post. Those days are better.

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 17, 2010

And this is exactly what I’m going to do in this blog post, I will publish these daily logs (in a more or less abridged version of course) giving you a time based description of the whole process, from installing Xcode to having your app in the AppStore. This post will not cover this process. Can be tricky at times.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

I’d argue that the mere process of getting degree, of getting educated, is an important one and teaches you how to think. Doing all of that at once also helped me develop strong organizing and executing skills! What 25 Holiday Classics Teach Us About Life and Fun Reply Steve St. –Deb´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Once the amount of information completely overwhelms anyone’s ability to process it, people will pay for trust. Holiday Season Kicks Off – 2 Weeks in Review! Any money you make in the process (or turning it into a viable full-time living) should be a luxury, an extra added bonus. Dave Doolin´s last blog.

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