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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 Thanks for visiting! Lynn was hardly reassured.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Image via Wikipedia There’s nothing like a major holiday, such as Christmas, to ratchet up the pressure on your schedule. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting!

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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. Thanks for showing it.

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MAY 25, 2010

Read: The Best To-Do List You’ll Ever Make Crumple up your to-do sheet and throw it away. Comments Trackbacks Personal Organizer | Ians Messy Desk Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Do the third task. Cross it off.

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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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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I’m sure your e-mail is constantly getting bombarded with e-mails all the time, Nudgemail helps you organize those emails and put “productive procrastination&# into practice: no new workflow no new plugins no new tools Let’s say you have an e-mail in your inbox that you need to respond to, but not until next week.

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MAY 10, 2010

Great tips and tricks for productive use of the To Do’s, Calendar, Email, Contacts, and more. 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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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. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! What’s the first thing you do?

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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

Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Assign the shopping, the decorating, etc. Why not leave a comment below and continue the conversation, or subscribe to my feed and get articles like this delivered automatically to your feed reader. Comments No comments yet.

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MAY 21, 2010

Lighten up… if you can – Humour can go a long way to keeping the listener’s attention. Comment by Greg on May 24, 2010 @ 11:53 am Trackbacks links for 2007-12-09 | The TDogs Blog Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life!

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MAY 26, 2010

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. If you do keep stuff, keep it in a way so that it doesn’t jam up your life and you can find it again. If the amount is small, three times a week may do.

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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. Many companies offer their work-life balance policies to employees at all levels. Participation in family-friendly policies is a career-limiting move. Management will lose control.

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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. 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!

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Closing up your body profile—becoming smaller—looks like you lack confidence. Comment by Sean Rasmussen on February 5, 2008 @ 11:25 am Trackbacks Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give.

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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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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. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Comments No comments yet.

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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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APRIL 14, 2010

Those personal distractions can eat up a lot of time. Just write down for a day every little thing that distracted you and whichever one took up the most time get rid of that first. Turn off the television – there’s not much worth watching anyway. Block interruptions – close the office door. Let the telephone go to the voice mail.

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AUGUST 27, 2010

The process of thinking up the images and making the connection will fix them into your memory. Comment by Frank Farrell on August 28, 2010 @ 2:46 pm Trackbacks Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! But you can only do this once per person!

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AUGUST 9, 2010

Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Find ways to express yourself through your strengths. You will increase your self-confidence when you share what you know to others. Comments No comments yet.

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JULY 26, 2010

Suck it up. It can be as simple as going to a new restaurant for supper, but more likely to be as terrifying as taking up sky-diving. Follow these four steps and pretty soon you’ll unleash your creative thinking and making others sit up and take notice. Creativity leads to more creativity. Learn from the example of others.

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JULY 6, 2010

Planning really enables focus, and saying “No&# frees up time to actually do what was planned. Comment by Tim Wilson on July 7, 2010 @ 8:23 am Trackbacks Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life!

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OCTOBER 31, 2008

Then a bunch of co-workers show up in costumes. Do you like to dress up in fancy or scary costumes for this occasion? Do you want to dress up at the office, but not sure what to wear or if you even can? You dont want to end up at work and be the only one wearing a costume. What are you dressing up as? What a sight!

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MAY 28, 2010

Test you telephone skills with this simple quiz: How quickly should you pick up a ringing phone? Set up your voice mail to answer after the third ring. Get the information up front. While forms of technology are making inroads into the communication process, the telephone is still an important source of contact with people.

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MAY 20, 2010

Instead of jumping up every time you have work to deliver, stow it in an expandable file with slots organized by department. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! You’ll be able to resume your work much faster than from a cold start. Cut down on steps.

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JUNE 28, 2010

In their book, Listen Up : How To Improve Relationships, Reduce Stress , Barker and Watson say that trying to top the other person’s story is one of those irritating habits that interferes with our ability to listen well. as if the listener has made up his mind. while pointing to his wooden leg. Saying, “Yes, but.,”

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JUNE 9, 2010

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. If you’re holding a meeting, draw up an agenda and circulate it to the staff attending beforehand. Archive Files: store in a filing cabinet or an off-site location.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

Round up your papers. 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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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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AUGUST 4, 2010

Take productivity courses online and read up. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Others carry on self-directed learning in recreational arts and hobbies, matters of health, family and community, or simply to increase their intellectual resources.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

Don’t: Don’t give up right away if your protégé initially resists your help. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! .� Be prepared for the relationship to end. They may not recognize the value of what you have to offer. Comments No comments yet.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Make sure you have a working pen and a back up. Before you hang up, read the message details back to the caller, to make certain that they are correct. Have a common location for the pick up of message or place it in a location where it will be seen. Make sure there is lots of space on the message pad. Thanks for the reminder.

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JUNE 23, 2010

They conjure up all kinds of nightmare scenarios as a result of their stage fright : What if I freeze? » Ten Speaker Tips to Make Any Presentation Sparkle Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! What if the audience hates me on sight?

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MAY 7, 2010

Come up with an argument that is reasonable. Learn Public Speaking Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Make sure you have a clear purpose in mind so that the audience will respond in the way you want them to. Search for other sources of information.

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MAY 5, 2010

I work to understand the underlying causes for procrastination, then come up with strategies to overcome them. I recognize that procrastination is a habit. As with any bad habit, I need to replace it with good habits. I conquer procrastination by working on tasks and my environment. How do these three steps play out in practical ways?

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