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JULY 6, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap 20 Tips for Better Time Management Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on July 6, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Celestine Chua of The Personal Excellence Blog has posted 20 time management tips , over at Stepcase Lifehack. Thanks for visiting!

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MAY 26, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Manage Your Paper With a RAFT Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on May 26, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. You don’t want papers to build up to the point where you look at it and you get discouraged. The easiest way to avoid that is to keep up to date.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

become a trainer or coach Have you built up your practice successfully only to run into this dilemma? First up on December 15, 2009 , is “Facebook Up Close and Personal,&# presented by Andrea Kalli. Comments: 0 Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change? build a virtual team b.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Stress Management Techniques Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on August 23, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Living is inherently stressful, but how we manage it will determine the number and severity of the stress related symptoms we experience. Thanks for visiting!

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blogs.sitepoint.com

OCTOBER 29, 2010

While this makes sense, it doesn’t mean you should ignore behind-the-scenes business administration tasks, such as setting policies. Policies that outline how you run various elements of your business, and why you do it that way, set boundaries and create a foundation for the business. When will you answer calls and return calls?

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. WinWeb – Your Office Online Simply the best way to manage your small business! Organizations are working to help them size up. Starting a Small Business? On-Demand Small Business Infrastructure™ allows you to run your business online. — ST.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Memory Makeover: Tips to Spruce Up an Absent Mind Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on October 20, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. So hang up the phone, find a quiet place and focus. Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day.

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APRIL 9, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap 5 Ways to Free Up Room on Your Brain’s Hard Drive Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on April 9, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Lynn was tapped to head up the project team for a major company restructuring. “I Don’t manage anyone at work? Thanks for visiting!

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 7, 2007

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. WinWeb – Your Office Online Simply the best way to manage your small business! Mike Gomez Said on January 26th, 2009 at 11:29 am The right franchise should really match your interest so you will have no problem coming up with great marketing ideas.

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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. Most managers simply get up and do what they want to do.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 24, 2010

Some of the commonly held myths and the corresponding reality checks are as follows: Family-Friendly policies are soft HR issues, mainly for women. Management will lose control. Management will lose control. By providing more control to their employees, managers can help establish a better working relationship.

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Loosely Speaking

OCTOBER 9, 2009

These’ll getcha, just like a change up in baseball. RSS Comments RSS Subscribe in a reader Copyright 2004. Friday, October 9, 2009 at 5:08 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives , Life of the Virtual Assistant There are many scenarios that can derail your well-oiled SOHO operation. Illness or death.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 24, 2010

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. WinWeb – Your Office Online Simply the best way to manage your small business! A lot of policies were focused was on helping small businesses with a “£2.5 State-controlled banks would offer up to £47 billion in loans to SME’s in the next year.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 18, 2010

Schedule tasks appropriately – After lunch is not the best time to read the long, lulling policy eport. Try a “pick-me-up&# – Listen to high-energy music, so long as it doesn’t disturb co-workers or workflow. Are you staying up too late at night, watching television in bed or do you have a sleep disorder.

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JUNE 7, 2009

Strategies for managing those feelings include volunteering, participating in face-to-face networking, and hosting gatherings of one’s peers. In Arizona, we’re gearing up for a late summer meeting for Virtual Assistants. Comments: 0 Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change?

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 25, 2010

Read: The Best To-Do List You’ll Ever Make Crumple up your to-do sheet and throw it away. Do the third task. Cross it off. There is something very satisfying about cross ing off to-do’s and tossing the completed list.

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. WinWeb – Your Office Online Simply the best way to manage your small business! Make certain that you have strong, unconfusing policies on employment. A good recordkeeping policy is essential. A good record-keeping policy is essential.

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Ian's Messy Desk

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Follow up with creditors if bills don’t arrive on time. Six points for merchants : Make protection of personal information a company priority; designate someone in your business to coordinate privacy policies and practices. Do not provide a Social Insurance Number unless absolutely necessary.

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Ian's Messy Desk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

You don’t fire up PowerPoint and start creating slides. The audience is giving up work or personal time to listen to you, but it’s because you’re going to have something to say. When Preparing for Public Speaking The boss e-mails and says you are going to be training employees on the features of the new software roll-out.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 9, 2010

Manage paper effectively – Barbara Hemphill, author of The Paper Tiger, offers the FAT principle for paper burden: file it, act on it, or toss it. Make meetings effective – Managers can spend an average of 17 hours a week in meetings, and that doesn’t include preparation and follow-up time. Keep the office door closed.

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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. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap 8 Tips to Help You Clean Off Your Desk Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on May 25, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Assign the shopping, the decorating, etc. The Mind Mapping Manifesto The Bubble Planner GoalPro Goal-Setting Software unique christmas presents - Buy one share of stock: Disney, Harley Davidson, Target, eBay, etc shipping furniture Atlanta Leather Furniture www.spacify.com/family-room-furniture.htm - for any room of the house.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 7, 2010

You pull up the spreadsheet , print off your boss’s e-mailed comments, dig out your notes from the last meeting and settle down to work. Stand up for visitors. If a visitor comes into your office, stand up to greet them and don’t invite them to sit down. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 21, 2010

Lighten up… if you can – Humour can go a long way to keeping the listener’s attention. Make sure it’s worth saying – Record your speech and play it back. After each key point, ask yourself, “does anybody care?” If the answer is “no”, change what you will say. However, if you can’t tell a joke or aren’t particularly funny, skip it.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Your manager’s perception is reality. 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. Find the analogy.

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Ian's Messy Desk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Too many objects add to the clutter and eat up valuable work space. Set up a good filing system. Don’t allow things to pile up. Be reasonable about what you really need to keep out. Don’t go overboard with personalization. Use a daily planner. Transfer all your notes and personal reminders to one, organized place.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 5, 2010

I work to understand the underlying causes for procrastination, then come up with strategies to overcome them. Procrastinators are made not born – Some ways parents can model good time-management habits for their children. I recognize that procrastination is a habit. As with any bad habit, I need to replace it with good habits.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 7, 2010

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. WinWeb – Your Office Online Simply the best way to manage your small business! Include policies on issues such as discrimination & discipline so that your position is clear and in writing. Ask me your small business questions, I will answer them ASAP.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 16, 2010

The Quotations page ( pop-up alert ) – The oldest quotation site on the Web, with more than 25,200 quotations from over 3,000 authors. When I am looking for quotations , these are 10 sites I have bookmarked: Wikiquote – A wiki of quotes from the Wikipedia family of reference. Famousquotations.com – quotations, quotes and proverbs.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 14, 2010

In the run-up to the launch we worked closely with some of our favorite blogs and publications to launch the new Notebooks category. Not only is it, in essence, an app store for Evernote, it is a place to distribute content to users.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 12, 2010

Louis found that people who sleep after storing a memory end up following through on their intentions much more effectively than people who jump right in without sleeping. New research suggests, when planning for tomorrow’s to-do’s, sleeping on it will make you more likely to get things done. Researchers at Washington University in St.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 14, 2010

Speak up : Greet you co-workers as you meet them through the day. Shut up : Listen more than you speak. Know your own weaknesses : Don’t get caught up in gossip. Tearing down another to prop yourself up is a huge waste of time. Here are ten steps you can take to make sure you’re not the source of conflict at work.

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Ian's Messy Desk

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Or, you have someone you need to follow-up with on November 22nd. You forward it to, for example, tuesday@nudgemail.com. On Tuesday, it forwards the message back. You forward it to 11222010@nudgemail.com. Nudgemail forwards it back to you on November 22nd. It’s simple.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 10, 2009

And it’s sweet because now I get to discuss my ultimate, favorite topic: T, for Time-based, which has a great deal to do with project management. And project management is what I do best. And it needs to be managed properly to turn out well. And then, you’ll be managing your project properly.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 10, 2010

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. A 35 page step-by-step manual for optimizing Notes as a personal productivity tool.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 11, 2010

There’s a lot of common sense wrapped up in these steps. psychologytoday.com) How to be Content in Your Life (socyberty.com) Related Posts: Renewal: Tips for Life Changes There’s More to Productivity Than Time Management How to Change Your Life The Simple Life Did you enjoy this post?

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 4, 2010

Take productivity courses online and read up. Do your best to manage your time and your life so that you are able to make the necessary adjustments to ensure that you are productive and producing at a level you are satisfied with at all times. Attend brown-bag lunches, trade shows and conferences. Research on-line.

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