Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 12, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap How to Manage Time Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on May 12, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Three rules for effective time management : 1) Don’t Create Impossible Situations. All time management begins with planning. List #1 – The weekly calendar.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 31, 2010

In no time, we’ll be into the annual holiday season. Here are links to Christmas and holiday related posts at Ian’s Messy Desk. Start Your Christmas Planning in August – Organized Christmas has a Holiday Grand Plan. Writing the perfect thought or holiday letter will make your Christmas greetings memorable.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 25, 2010

Make an appointment - Don’t just hope you find the time to clean up, set a calendar entry and stick to it. Organizer ( paper or electronic) to enter to-dos, addresses or calendar data. Use the right tools: Set a timer for the length of time you have decided to work on this project. Boxes or storage containers to use for sorting.

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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. To reduce holiday stress this year, create a holiday checklist to make the season go smoothly. Now is the time to check any household equipment that will get used and over-used during the holidays.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 10, 2010

Great tips and tricks for productive use of the To Do’s, Calendar, Email, Contacts, and more. A 35 page step-by-step manual for optimizing Notes as a personal productivity tool.

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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. They don’t want to think about school a day earlier than necessary. Here are some tips to prepare home and family for getting into the back-to-school groove.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 3, 2010

Smart managers never overlook this fact: loyal, productive employees are one of your biggest assets. As a manager, your words, body language, even your facial expressions make a huge difference in how employees perceive your opinion of them. What you need? You know I got it! R-e-s-p-e-c-t Everyone wants to be treated with respect.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 30, 2010

My mother has gotten things done by using heavily annotated paper calendars. Related articles by Zemanta Manage Your Tasks Online Using GTD Methodology With PlanCake (makeuseof.com) Does GTD work? The closest she ever came to digital organization was an electronic address book she used until it became too difficult to read the screen.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Your manager’s perception is reality. Review last year’s calendar to determine what may come up in the next few months, then meet with your boss about what she hopes to accomplish. While there have been improvements in the economic climatic, we still face challenging times in every industry, serious effect on job security.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Unfortunately, our calendars and to-do lists often get in the way of common sense. Where you live, how much money you make, your job title and even your health have surprisingly small effects on your satisfaction with life. The following eight points summarize her findings. There’s a lot of common sense wrapped up in these steps.

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The Office Professionals Place

JANUARY 21, 2010

GOOG-411 –Find and get phone numbers, addresses, etc for businesses iGoogle – personalize your homepage with things you can use (games, weather, horoscopes, tips for the day, to do lists, calendar, and for you sports fans get updates of scores from your favorite sports games). Are you Googling?

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Put pen to paper (or finger tips to keyboard) and record important dates in a calendar, notebook or on your mobile device. Many people overlook this crucial step and end up missing important appointments, deadlines or details. Get hooked on mnemonics. Leather Furniture www.spacify.com/family-room-furniture.htm - for any room of the house.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The thing about January is that while it is the start of the Gregorian calendar year, it comes at a time where our energy levels are at one of their lowest levels. We’ve just come out of the holiday mode, and to try to take on a new habit or resolution when we have so little in the tank is less than ideal. So I don’t do it.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 3, 2011

Work With Stephanie « Listen Live to Stephanie Share Her Story on #WIBRadio on Jan 3 @ 1pm CST | Main | Procrastination, Email, Multi-Tasking, Family Management, Soc Media Backup Etc.   Also, when you come across papers that are date driven, make sure to add an entry to your calendar/planner to remind you to do things. 

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Laughing all the Way to Work

APRIL 27, 2009

As I was going through the manual, I saw chapters on office procedures, confidentiality, health and safety, security and more. They have about 9 lawyers, 2 paralegals, 1 receptionist (me), and a office manager. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. May 04, 2009 Peachon said. Excellent material!

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Her skill set it basically calendar and coffee. Her skill set it basically calendar and coffee. If her boss LOVED her maybe her boss really only needed calendar and coffee help, but we won’t know for sure what her boss thought and all the performance reviews HR has for her 30+ years vs your 2 years. What shift(s) can you work?

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Allwork

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

So, managing, changing the world. And in the time that you have to travel at basically the craziest time, spring break, winter holidays, summer holidays. One thing that I tell my team and I do it myself if you block my calendar. So, you need to create that on your calendar. Is that health care but also arts?

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 16, 2010

A calendar is the easiest place to track such a list. Regular tasks can occur on a monthly cycle: e.g., paying bills. You can create date-based lists that will remind you to complete task which are regular, but not frequent. A to-do list can be as simple or as complex as you need.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 28, 2010

Initially it may take you longer to catch up if you have a large pile, but 15 minutes is manageable. Add dated or calendar items to a tickler file system or a diary as soon as they arrive. To be more productive, allocate 15 minutes each week. We all can find this much time in our schedules. What’s in My Blogging Toolkit?

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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. Use it to manage overwhelm when your world is freakin'! Utilize your calendar to schedule tasks. Sit down at your calendar and block out the time for your tasks. In the calendar.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 8, 2016

We also got 2 floating/personal holidays, about 3-10 sick days, and also working in the entertainment industry, most places shut down for the last 10-14 days of the year. We also get most bank holidays, half day or early closure before a long weekend, and some companies close early on Fridays during the summer at 2pm or 3pm.

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 17, 2010

PHP has garbage collections which means your variables are automatically discarded when they are no longer needed, in Objective C you have to do your own management memory. I managed to compile it, call the functions and log the results. Prepare to read a lot of sentences starting with “Message sent to deallocated instance…”.

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