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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Set up a good filing system. Comment by Ahmad Fatoni on April 1, 2010 @ 3:39 am Trackbacks Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Too many objects add to the clutter and eat up valuable work space. Use a daily planner.

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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. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life!

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 28, 2010

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. Health is one.

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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

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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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

AUGUST 25, 2010

Tighten up current household systems. X Chelsea Comment by Chelsea on August 13, 2009 @ 5:16 am Trackbacks Some ways to keep your family active All the little things » GTD Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life!

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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. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Thanks for visiting!

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Luckily, in my office, we dress in casual clothes all of the time and we do have a corporate policy of being able to dress up in a costume for this event. Check with your Human Resources Department or manager to see if this falls into your corporate policy. Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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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. To-do lists, shopping lists, idea lists, etc. I have loads of them.

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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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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2008

You can purge the files as needed, depending on your companys situation and/or policy. If youre looking for a business phone system , check out the PBXs that are currently on the market. So try creating a spreadsheet yourself and let me know how it works out for you. Whats next?

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , System Security D o you back up your e-mails in Microsoft Outlook ? There are two ways of backing up your e-mails.

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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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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 7, 2010

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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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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Your company may have a policy on how they want you to address people in external business e-mail. Your company may have a strict policy on what they want you to include in the signature line and what it should look like, but generally you would include your name, title, company name and address, telephone and fax number. Who are you?

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 9, 2010

It feels great and my desktop and internet cookies are so clear when I’m done Comment by Richard | RichardShelmerdine.com on April 29, 2010 @ 5:04 am Trackbacks Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! But humans have a definite edge on computers.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 28, 2010

Add dated or calendar items to a tickler file system or a diary as soon as they arrive. Comment by bvssunnydale on March 3, 2007 @ 11:43 am bvs: I’m just realizing the benefit of the type of text-based system you suggest; and I’ve been trying to sort this for a long time. We all can find this much time in our schedules.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 23, 2010

Get Support – One of the best ways to combat stress is to develop and rely on a support system. Seek out humorous books, TV shows, movies or life situations that will bring humor into your life. Don’t be afraid to laugh at yourself and your mistakes.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Our workplace actually has a policy of not allowing them any longer. The world has to smell their cologne. Posted on 18 February, 2010 11:42 AM The Professional Assistant Yep, I know the feeling of perfumes and colognes. Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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