Ian's Messy Desk

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

One of the problems with e-mail is that not everything needs to be acted on right away, but if you don’t have a good reminder system in place, then you’re likely to let things slip through the cracks. In a nutshell, it turns *ANY* e-mail client into a reminder system. Stage Two Labs recently launched a new service called Nudgemail.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 10, 2010

Lotus Notes is the groupware of choice for my employer and GTD is my system of choice for keeping organized (however poorly implemented). This handbook automatically leaps ahead of other Notes/GTD options available as it takes you through setting up a GTD system using a basic Notes installation; no need for add-ons to make it work.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 17, 2011

Work With Stephanie « My Theme for 2011: Decisive Productive Action | Main | 10 Reminder Systems for You To Consider » Stephanie Hosts Jill Hively: What’s for Dinner? 5 Steps to Meal Planning Success There is no denying that there is a strong tie between your health and your productivity or ability to focus and get things done. 

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 28, 2010

Health is one. Just over the course of a single academic term, procrastinating college students had such evidence of compromised immune systems as more colds and flu, more gastrointestinal problems. Use the buddy system – Having someone who will remind me –and my wife has licence to be that someone– motivates me to meet my commitments.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 28, 2010

If your phone system shows internal vs. external calls, alter your greeting appropriately. com) Will Someone Please Answer The Phone – 8th Digital Dealer Conference (slideshare.net) Office voice mail system proving advantageous to different offices (slideshare.net) Related Posts: Test Are you a hoser? Harvey Trailer speaking.&#

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Ian's Messy Desk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Set up a good filing system. Too many objects add to the clutter and eat up valuable work space. Use a daily planner. Transfer all your notes and personal reminders to one, organized place. Colour–coded files are especially helpful — they show you at a glance where something should go.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 20, 2010

Become a hero to staff members who know only the basic functions of your voice-mail system and other devices, by learning the shortcuts and most useful and underused features; then teaching them. For personal errands you can’t schedule on Saturday or Sunday, take a day off to take care of them all.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

For example, Dr. William Harvey made medical history by explaining how the circulatory system worked: He likened the heart to a pump and gave himself a new frame of reference—and from that he understood blood vessels as part of a unified pumping system. (2)

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 7, 2011

She is an accredited professional coach certified through the Coaches Training Institute as a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC); through the Center for Right Relationship (CRR) as Organizational and Relationship Systems Coach (ORSC) and an accredited facilitator of the Team Diagnostic Model through Team Coaching International.

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Ian's Messy Desk

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Being aware of your areas of weakness allows you to focus your systems and practices on strengthening the weaknesses. In a perfect world, your answers would be all yesses. The noes are the areas you need work on to develop those skills.

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Ian's Messy Desk

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The following is an excerpt from the book The Milkshake Moment: Overcoming Stupid Systems, Pointless Policies and Muddled Management to Realize Real Growth by Steven S. April 2008;$19.95US/$21.99CAN; 978-0-470-25746-3 Copyright © 2008 Steven S. Little Published by Wiley & Sons, Inc.;

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 25, 2010

Tighten up current household systems. How would you characterize school mornings in your home; crazy and chaotic or calm and cheerful? Plan your morning routines the evening before. 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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Productivity Bits

AUGUST 22, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. You might enjoy days or weeks of respite from your mounting stress, only to experience some recurring strain to your system, manifesting as a problem in your health, family, social life, or some other “non-productive” though essential part of who you are. Visit the original article at [link].

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Eat Your Career

JULY 28, 2010

At first, I assumed I would be focusing on menu adjustment, working with the clients to make sure they were getting the right nutritional balance, and monitoring caloric intake and changes in health. Nutrition and health can’t be managed without also addressing career and stress and every other aspect of life that could be impacting success.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 16, 2010

There are 5 key advantages to maintaining a to-do list: 1) A to-do list doesn’t forget Your brain is not the most efficient memory tool and will only trust systems that it knows works. From there you can prioritize them and tackle the important ones first.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 2, 2010

One other observation: the better you’re maintaining your system day-to-day, the smaller the impact of unexpected absences. Generally, with a planned absence, I have put systems in place to catch, reroute, defer, etc. It may take time and effort to get things reorganized to move forward, but don’t stop at the end of step four.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 3, 2011

  They do not have systems for handling their most important areas of life.    1 - Create an Action System This is the system that manages all of the papers that are on your counters and other spaces that you have out in the open and in piles because you don't want to forget to do something. 

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Loosely Speaking

DECEMBER 22, 2009

link] Effectively Conduct Your Complimentary Consultations & Overcome Objections presented by Patty Benton of The Marketing Train System Coaching Program. Creating a Marketing Train System for 2010, January 11, 10:00 a.m. RSS Comments RSS Subscribe in a reader Copyright 2004. Loose Ends. All Rights Reserved.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 19, 2011

Work With Stephanie « 10 Reminder Systems for You To Consider | Main | Listen to Stephanie on Solace Wealth Management on Blog Talk Radio » Productivity and Organization Link Lineup There is some fantastic content out on the web and I often have clients and readers ask me what I have found. 

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 9, 2010

Once you’ve thrown away as much as possible, file everything else into an effective retrieval system or a hard-paper filing system.Sort your files into the following groups according to how often you need them: Action Files: store in a desk drawer, desk-top file box or anywhere else that’s easy to reach.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 21, 2010

It is important to integrate your whole life into your time management system. Each of those six areas are necessary parts of the whole you. If you are ignoring one area then you are ignoring an important part of yourself. Being organized and prepared makes it easier to grab opportunities for personal development in all areas of your life.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 19, 2010

thanks @thinkglobally) Productivity is sometimes about effective systems and sometimes about the mindset that you have about your situation.  thanks @thinkglobally) Productivity is sometimes about effective systems and sometimes about the mindset that you have about your situation.    Often it is both.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk “The volatility at the core of deregulated financial institutions makes a world economy that is organised as a system of free markets essentially unstable&# John Gray (b.

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The Small Business Blog

JUNE 18, 2010

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Concentrate on your business, not your office. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. External Links External Links SynergyOne.co.uk Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 7, 2009

.  You may come to the same conclusion as Janet, or you may find that your needs are totally different, but you will get a fabulous overview of some of the most popular planning systems today. Have a planning system you love?  Have a planning system you love?    Tell me about it. 

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 7, 2010

Comment by Jack on July 9, 2010 @ 7:06 am Trackbacks 5 Tips to ‘Handle’ Unwanted Workplace Visitors - lifehack.org nežinau.lt » ?raš? We make the process easy from the estimate to the delivery. Leather Furniture www.spacify.com/family-room-furniture.htm - for any room of the house.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 18, 2010

This can be compared to receiving flyers or junk mail via the snail mail system. If you have concerns about a virus alert, please do not hesitate to contact the Helpdesk. We can advise you whether the threat is real. One would assume that you would not collect this junk mail and photocopy it, then distribute it to all your friends.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Work With Stephanie | Contact Copyright 2007-2010 Calahan Solutions, Inc. -- All Rights Reserved Want to use my content in your ezine, newsletter or blog? Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You?   Today is a continuation on that theme. Or I nap. ;) mnthomas   Brain dump! 

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Ian's Messy Desk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Once you’ve spent some time with this system, you can refine the way it works. Get into the habit of scheduling fixed time slots for your tasks. Once you reach the end of the time limit, stop what you’re doing and head to the next task or appointment.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 30, 2010

  Yet, we try to do it all of the time by putting systems in place that don’t match our personal or our organizations’ styles. There are some that think that one system should work for everyone.    Understanding your style and developing systems that fit with who you are sets you up for success. . 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

pamelahazelton    Franklin Covey - been using that system for 10+ years. It's simple to keep my schedule, lists and important health notes in one place.    When you are picking a system for your planning, think about the various features and pick a tool that you are most likely to USE. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 25, 2011

  She understands that every person is different and requires systems that work for them.    She understands that every person is different and requires systems that work for them.    As the founder and CEO of Calahan Solutions, Inc.,   As the founder and CEO of Calahan Solutions, Inc.,

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 23, 2010

Symptoms that are ignored ultimately lead to much more serious health problems. Get Support – One of the best ways to combat stress is to develop and rely on a support system. Behavioral Increased substance (i.e., Whether family, relatives or friends, talking to any of these people is a great way to minimize stress.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

  I've tried different systems and they don't work.    Sometimes your focus and attention challenges can be directly related to the systems you have (or don't have) in your life.    I've tried different systems and they don't work. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 31, 2010

  She understands that every person is different and requires systems that work for them.    She understands that every person is different and requires systems that work for them.    As the founder and CEO of Calahan Solutions, Inc.,   As the founder and CEO of Calahan Solutions, Inc.,

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

New Years Resolution: Use a to-do list or task tracking system! - [link] - Cathy Sexton shares some great thoughts on to-do systems.   She understands that every person is different and requires systems that work for them.    As the founder and CEO of Calahan Solutions, Inc.,

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 10, 2011

.  I'm sure that sounds odd -- maybe you were thinking the focus would be health; but I wanted to focus on figuring out the true cause of my illness rather than having doctors pump me up with meds.  Good news is we found the multiple causes for my health decline and began the healing. 

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