Success

APRIL 3, 2023

Everything from the title on my business card to the location of the building fed my notion of success. She uses the example of playing golf: “As strange as it seems, the brain has to be so quiet to do a perfect golf swing, to get everything connected the right way. It’s right at the edge of too hard.” Survey your scores.

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Tips From T. Marie

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Look for fun desktop organization pieces at places like Target , The Container Store or Poppin. For example: On my desk I’ve used wooden crates I purchased at Michael’s , painted them in soft neutral shades (no stark white or black, rather Oyster and Driftwood), then turned them on their side. A small one holds my monitor on top.

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On The Job

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Be organized. Eat or drink away from the recruiter tables – keep at least one hand free to shake hands and accept business cards. Keep the recruiter’s business card with your notes, and make sure you get an address so that you can send a thank-you note after the job fair. will be noticed. · Hone your message.

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Clutter Coach

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I can see all my athletic tops at once, for example, so I can easily pick the one I want. For me, the trigger to declutter is when I have trouble finding something in there because a mass of receipts, tissues, gum wrappers, business cards and whatnot has built up. This is an example of organic decluttering.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 7, 2011

If you’re not familiar with Evernote, it’s an application that helps you get organized and remember everything. If you organize and tag your notes as you go, they will be easier to find, using Evernote’s powerful search. For example, you can select the color of ink you’d like to use. What is Evernote?

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 12, 2012

Recognize how you show up in your life and your business, and how it plays out for you. Example: if you pay your bills late, how can you expect your clients to pay you on time. Get your fr.ee “Office Organization Success Toolkit” plus how-to articles, resources, tips, and tools at [link].

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Eat Your Career

JANUARY 29, 2013

There are also various groups based around other identifying characteristics—for example: young professionals, women in business, minority groups, etc. If you’re looking to expand your network, there are tons of events (organized by various groups) specifically for this purpose. Don’t blanket the room with your business card.

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Eco-Office Gals

JULY 15, 2013

You should take your contract work seriously and use self-employment to boost your resume with real examples of your work. A freelance web developer, for instance, can offer green web hosting with his services and print referral business cards on recycled paper to distribute to clients with new invoices. Ask for Referrals.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Why Complete Social Profiles Are Important Let me give you an example of why this can be important for you.  Archive Network with Steph Is This You?   If you aren't keeping your online profiles complete, you are missing out on some great connections and opportunities. 

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Office Organization Success

JUNE 24, 2011

And you can add the URL and details of your free taste to your business cards for when you hand them out at networking events. how-to articles, resources, tips, and tools, and sign up for your fr.ee “Office Organization Success Toolkit&#. This way you are building your list from the get-go! Check out [link] for fr.ee

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

" For example, I'll offer access to a webinar, pick up the telephone, send a card or gift a physical DVD with some of my best videos. Social media has played a key role in communicating the services my business offers as a Professional Organizer. Thanks to Kenneth Manesse of 3 Dimensional Life. Go Offline.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 30, 2008

The spreadsheet might contain other types of data, but is similar to this example? checked (in this example). How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One?

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 18, 2010

For most organizations, e-mail has become the preferred means of communication, both formal and informal. It’s like attaching a business card to every e-mail you send. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! Be careful with humour - Use humour and irony sparingly.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 27, 2011

Now, take a look at your business card, brochures or other social media profiles.    The other day I was in a meeting and saw a card that had the back covered with 2 different QR codes and the front had a few different urls. .    I bet the number is more than five.    How does it work?

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 24, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Prioritization: A Colorful Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, July 24, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity D o you receive quite a bit of e-mail in your Inbox each day, but have trouble prioritizing them? For example, I receive an e-mail from my direct supervisor.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Home About Me Advertise "Stop Watch"ing Your Productivity By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity D o you multi-task too much? For example, you want to spend one hour on a particular project. To avoid this, try using an online timer instead.

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 29, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Friday, August 29, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity D o you have a to-do list, either on a piece of paper, on Microsoft Outlook or in a planner? For example, I will try to work on task A for 1 hour. Home About Me Advertise To-Do or Not To-Do?

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Advertise 4 Steps to Setting up E-mail Distribution Lists By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, March 27, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity D o you find yourself having to write each persons e-mail address over and over again for certain e-mails ?

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 21, 2007

Here is how to calculate the difference between two numbers as a percentage: For example, your earnings are $2,342 in November and $2,500 in December. It kept providing me topics that werent relevant to the particular answer I was looking for. I then checked Excels help file and there it was.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 9, 2008

For example, if I have Microsoft Excel XP and would like to send a file to a client that only has Microsoft Excel 97 (which was a horrible disaster for Microsoft, since there were quite a few bugs in this version), you could save the file as a Microsoft Excel 97 version. I remember in the past that you can always downgrade files.

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On The Job

JANUARY 4, 2010

Heres the story I did on resolutions for your career for my Gannett column: The problem with making resolutions regarding your career is that you become so busy with your job, or so stressed by everyday work events that you quickly lose sight of the things you want to improve. Who’s got time to get organized? Get more organized.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2008

F or example, if you want to make a million dollars before you die, write out exactly what you want and how you will achieve this. Another thing that helps people to get motivated is by writing some sort of mantra on a piece of paper or printing it out. This way, when you sit down, you can read it each and every day.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 4, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Write An Effective Out Of Office Assistant Message By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity A re you going on vacation? I appreciate your example. Are you going to be out of the office for a short or even long period of time?

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 14, 2007 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity D oes your firm want to save money? Heres an example of what happened with me. Home About Me Advertise Outsourcing - Good or Bad? Everyone could use a little more green in their wallets.

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 28, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 28, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , Travel D o you need to book meetings for your manager(s), but most meetings are all over the country or even internationally?

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, October 30, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , Organize , Productivity D o you find yourself being bored out of your mind at times with nothing to do? Ive tried to exhaust all the possible things I could do that he doesnt ask me to do - organize emails, files, clutter, contacts, create procedures.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 20, 2008

Some examples would be managing a company website, creating, editing and writing a company newsletter or creating promotional materials, invitations and brochures for marketing events. Professional Organizer: Organization is a must if you are an assistant. One of our main duties is to keep our bosses organized.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JULY 1, 2011

  It is your memory -- only organized!    For example, say you met someone at a networking meeting a year ago and had a conversation with that person.  My philosophy is that better organization leads to increased productivity and frees one to lead a more balanced life. doitnow #youwontregretit.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

Last year I was invited write articles for ACCO's "Organize Your Desk Day" To give some structure to the series of 30 blogposts, I decided to create a 10-week "How-to" course in setting up an organized and productive workspace. Thanks to Julie Bestry of Best Results Organizing. One Tree With Many Limbs.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 22, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Outlook Rules That Rule By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by Patricia Robb of Laughing All The Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant. It will be worth the effort.

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

A Real Life Example Let’s see now a real life example. Business Cards Are Nice Too Now, what do you do if you have some human powered work force, some OCR software to do the dirty job for you and a lot of audience (Shoeboxed is pretty popular, you know)? That’s all. You expand. Now that’s something really neat, right?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   Recommended Tool: Franklin Covey Planner www.franklincovey.com is a Physical Paper-Based great for Business Professional.    Pros of Planning Tool: Very organized product. Make sure you choose an organizer that you feel confident and comfortable using.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

So how do you translate the power of public speaking into value for your freelancing business without going whole hog and becoming a professional speaker? For example… Schedule Some Local Speaking Engagements. Would your business benefit from some local exposure like that? Organize a Webinar. You keep it simple.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I volunteer A LOT with other organizations seasonally. She gave me her business card. I always have tons of stamps, thank you cards, blank cards, and stationary on hand along with pre-printed address labels. The cards and stationary are from Target and the business cards were bought from Vista Print.

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The Marq

JUNE 1, 2010

Call to Action I recently attended a technical presentation for one of my professional organizations where I noticed the speaker was somewhat uncomfortable, especially at the start of the presentation. Examples of this include: Hands in pocket Playing with a pen Repeatedly touching your face or any other body part (don’t get any ideas!)

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Brilliantly Better

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

People Are Approaching You in Real Life Situations For example, you may be approached by people who start up conversations with you using sentences like: I don’t know you but I read your blog. The smallest building block of this circle is your business card (if we’re talking about business relationships).

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Take this blog, for example. You have a site that, three times a week, as regular as clockwork, gives readers a 700-word value-packed blog post full of insight and knowledge that’s fully tailored to benefit and improve people’s ability to earn more income and have a successful business. It’s free. What do you have?

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