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. 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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DECEMBER 28, 2007

Wireless internet providers provide internet access without attaching cables and wires to your system. I also want to wish everyone Happy Holidays and a Happy and Prosperous New Year! I will try to write posts when my time permits. If I find a really great or juicy story, I will definitely post it on here.

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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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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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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? 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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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 9, 2010

Do you keep reminding yourself to do things that you think you “should do” but don’t really need or want to do – like arranging your vacation photos into a photo album, alphabetizing your bookshelf, sending out holiday cards? Do yourself a favour – delete them. But humans have a definite edge on computers.

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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. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap The Milkshake Moment Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on September 27, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed.

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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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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

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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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 10, 2010

Better for you ergonomically as well. I must admit that it helps that I learnt to use a computer on the old DOS system and shortcut keys were the only option, but even those who normally use a mouse can transition over quite easily. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Excellent material!

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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

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

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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