Jen Lawrence

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Preparing for time out of the office for the holidays is frustratingly stressful. It’s supposed to be the most magical time of the year and somewhere amongst the gifts, parties, and holiday movies, we are still expected to carry our normal workload. Clean Out and Back Up Your Systems. The audacity!

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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. While you may find a couple of quiet days around the holiday, the rest of December can be quite stressful. Charitable organizations often run gift-wrapping services as a fund raiser. Ask for help.

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Ian's Messy Desk

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

If you want to reduce the stress associated with the holiday season, get an early start on holiday planning. Then December comes along and your stress level is higher than a mountain climber hanging off a cliff by his fingertips. To reduce holiday stress this year, create a holiday checklist to make the season go smoothly.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 31, 2010

10 Simple and Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas – Gifts for the teacher, babysitter, hockey coach, or for the hosts of your holiday parties, don’t have to be expensive. Here are 10 gift ideas in small packages. Advent Calendar Resources On-line – November 28 marks the start of the Advent season.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Give yourself a gift this year by setting achievable goals that you have a fighting chance to accomplish. Taking a few hours now to fill your calendar with milestones and important events brings the big picture into focus, helps you budget your time with less stress, and helps curtail procrastination.

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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. Back-to-school adds a whole new layer of commitments and stresses on top of the things that regularly need to be done.

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On The Job

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

While you may have thought that was a tad bit early to be thinking of what you want from Santa this year, this latest story may have you thinking about what you'd like at the top of your gift list this year: An empty e-mail "in" box. What would your evenings and weekends be like if you didn't spend them trying to catch up on e-mail?

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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. Your boss will see you are saving her time and see you as a stress-reducer.

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Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 1, 2015

I’m usually woken up by my two cat’s way before the alarm clock goes off, so my morning is usually cleaning out their trays, feeding them and then getting myself ready. I have no appetite when I wake up so tend to have a small bowl of cereal when I get into the office – which has to be with coconut milk. Busy – sometimes crazy busy!

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 12, 2010

We expend energy rushing through the day trying to keep up with ourselves. List #1 – The weekly calendar. Emotional blocks – boredom, daydreaming, stress, guilt, anger and frustration reduce concentration. When you enjoy what you are doing, it reduces stress. When stress is reduced, you work more efficiently.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Today it’s the Mayan calendar that has people in an uproar! State you or someone you know studies Adminology and knows their stuff by ordering today’s special gift bundle for $9.00 (receive the Adminology logo’d coffee mug & sticky note cube). Who among us doesn't remember the perceived crisis of Y2K?

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Step It Up VA Coaching

MARCH 24, 2011

Spring is coming, and with it, an opportunity for a little sprucing up! You may be one of the many who feel you never really set up your office properly in the first place. Clean up electronic files and documents. You’ll be opening up a door for better clients to come in! by Donna Toothaker.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 10, 2010

.)  To make it even better, for a strictly limited time, Michael will give you a free Bonus video – along with other gifts and prizes valued at $1800 – when you order this ground-breaking new book. P.S. Remember, the bonus gifts are yours only when you reserve your copy before the cut-off. To your success! The fact is.

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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. Develop strategies for coping with stress and hardships. The following eight points summarize her findings. If you find you “can’t get no satisfaction”, try any or all of the following.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 14, 2012

Recently, we conducted an informal poll of the 1000 participants that signed up for Fire Up Your Biz - Enrich Your Life and found that over half of our respondents had questions around procrastination, lack of motivation and generally just not getting things done! Thanks to Margit Crane of Gifted With ADD. Eliminate The Hate!

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 7, 2012

Try to set up the communication of the office so your boss checks their own emails and responds, but you are in charge of all the mtg coordination, phones, and anything that happens in the office. Tech glitches happen all the time and 2 people controlling one person's calendar is not the easiest thing.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 16, 2010

This is a powerful gift and must be used wisely. They came up with some great ideas. It is not getting a drink or seeing what your buds are up to on Twitter/Facebook. Archive Network with Steph Is This You?   When I asked him about the tiny papers, he said they all represented an item that he needed to take care of. 

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 31, 2010

No, its not e-cards (I am not a fan of e-cards as one more e-mail cluttering up my Inbox is not a welcome thing), but these are actual hard copy cards that you can customize and send out with your own special message. I sent another assistant a comical card about being stressed out at work. 411 Look Up 411.ca She loved it!

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Organizing an office gift exchange can be an opportunity to create meaningful memories with your coworkers, or, as a recent article on The International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) blog makes clear, a potential minefield of stress and unintentional offense. Good Gift Lists. Holiday gift baskets.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 26, 2014

He's expressed his appreciation for my hard work and his desire for me to move up in the company once I've decided where I want to be, which I am still figuring out. I also handle his executive calendar and work in the office with him. I hated having to do EVERY LITTLE thing for my boss. So here are some things you can ask yourself.

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Jen Lawrence

MARCH 25, 2019

Like many people, I didn’t feel the stress until I was so far down the rabbit hole that the only way out was to reach the bottom. After 3:00 pm, I’m absolutely useless mentally but start to get physically antsy, so a walk or exercise is perfect at this time to jumpstart my energy before picking up my son from daycare.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Once I feel I've captured every idea on a note, I find a stretch of wall and stick each idea up. "Heads Up. " The playing field of the world is leveling off which means that the competition, pace and stress levels are at maximum. I write down one task or to-do on a Post-It, and put it up on a wall.

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Jen Lawrence

MARCH 25, 2019

Like many people, I didn’t feel the stress until I was so far down the rabbit hole that the only way out was to reach the bottom. After 3:00 pm, I’m absolutely useless mentally but start to get physically antsy, so a walk or exercise is perfect at this time to jumpstart my energy before picking up my son from daycare.

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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. Improve skills. Focus on quality. Take the high road.

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Virtual Moxie

OCTOBER 1, 2012

I can't stress enough how important I've found this to be--especially with people closest to you in your business. If you don’t like where you end up, reinvent, change the. Every morning, for instance, I get out of bed, scan my calendar on my Blackberry to just remind myself of what's on tap for the day, do yoga.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 28, 2010

One statistic found that, “The average desk worker has 36 hours worth of work on their desk and wastes up to 3 hours a week just “looking” for STUFF!&# Round them all up and transfer their information to something a little more permanent, efficient, and user-friendly. You might be less inclined to mess up a shiny desk.

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