Give yourself some time
People have no problem filling their schedules and to-do lists with a million things, but never leave time for themselves. Give yourself some time; say an hour per day. Use the time to go for a walk, read, listen to some music or whatever it is you love to do. Treat this appointment as your most important of the day.
This may have been around for awhile, but I only noticed it last evening. I received an e-mail announcing a concert on May 14. On the right-hand side of the message was a link to “Add to Calendar” (see image below). Clicking the link popped up an event entry box for Google Calendar, with the event name and date completed. I’m guessing Google used a natural language feature to extract the data from the subject line of the message.
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I also understand the you can send an SMS to GVENTS such as, “Mill Creek Colliery Band concert May 14 at 7:30pm” and it will add it to your calendar. This feature is currently only available in the US.
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Do you get too much email? Do you send too much email? Sick of spam?
Have you ever thought about how much time is lost just due to handling e-mail?
If you can relate, sign up for this free course with Kevin A. Miller, vice president of Christianity Today International, and author of Surviving Information Overload. In less than 15 minutes you'll learn seven expert strategies for reducing your e-mail overload.
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Last week Time Magazine ran a cover story on The Multitasking Generation. Writer Claudia Wallis takes a look at the effects of technological multitasking on young people. Along the way, she also offers some tips on de-cluttering your life.
Read: TIME.com —Four Tips to Unclutter Your Life
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Meetings can often seem to be the antithesis of getting things done. Susan M. Heathfield outlines a series of tips for getting the most out of your meeting time.
Making meetings effective:
Have a plan
There a plenty of time-management quotes and adages about the need to plan. Having a daily plan lets you make educated decisions about where to focus your efforts during a day.
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For those of you who consider yourselves organizationally challenged, here are Ten Commandments of Organization:
In his classic book, The Time Trap
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Because you never know when you’re going to have to deal with a runaway camel.
Do you need a little help for the holidays? Use these idea and planning resources to stay organized!
Christmas Planning at About.com
Related posts: Christmas PlanningIt might be early to be thinking about Christmas, but if you want to be organised for the holiday, it’s a good time to begin. Visit Christmas Countdown to get a head-start on your planning.
link from March Forth! Marssima Edasi (where it has already snowed)
by Maria Gracia
You are busy and you have tons of things to do. How can you possibly remember it all?
Having a sharp memory recall can be as simple as finding ways to help jog your memory throughout the day. Here are 10 quick ideas:
1. WRITE IT DOWN. With the amount of things you have to remember in any given day, why should you try to stuff it all into your memory bank? When you want to remember something, the very best thing to do is write it down. Then, when you need to recall it, it will be there for you in an instant.
2. KEEP IT TOGETHER. When you write down things you want to remember, keep them in one consistent place. Otherwise, you're going to spend a lot of time looking for your notes.
3. MAINTAIN GOOD HEALTH. Eat healthy foods, get enough sleep, and exercise. These are all important for your memory, staying focused and being alert.
4. RECORD YOUR THOUGHTS. Sometimes you might want to remember something, but it's impossible for you to write it down, such as when you're driving. A little hand held tape recorder is a wonderful gadget to carry around with you and record your thoughts, or your parking space number, or a phone number you see on a billboard.
5. CALL YOURSELF. If you're at the office, and you want to do something when you arrive home, call your answering machine and leave yourself a message. When you get home, you'll listen to your message and remember exactly what you wanted to do.
6. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. If you keep saying you have a bad memory, you'll probably continue to have a bad memory. It's important to have a motivated, I CAN remember attitude.
7. SEND YOURSELF E-MAIL REMINDERS. There are many free e-mail reminder services available. You simply type in what you want to remember, such as a birthday, anniversary or event, and you then receive an e-mail reminder when the date is approaching.
8. POST STICKY NOTES. Those wonderful, little sticky notes can be amazing memory helpers. Want to remember something before you leave the house? Jot it down on a Post-It Note and stick it on the inside of your door. You'll be sure to see it as you're getting ready to walk out. Have to make an urgent call first thing in the morning? Leave a Post-It Note on your telephone.
9. SET TIMERS AND ALARMS. Take advantage of alarm clocks and timers throughout the day. Have to take the clothes out of the wash at 3:00? Set your alarm clock to remind you. Want to leave for the basketball game by 6:15? Set your timer to beep a few minutes before.
10. USE VISUAL REMINDERS. Visual reminders can help you remember and focus. I especially like visual reminders for remembering your goals. If your goal is to take a trip to a beautiful island in a few years, keep a magazine photograph of the island right on your desk. If your goal is to own your own business one day, find a picture or ornament that will help remind you of this goal each day.
by Maria Gracia - Get Organized Now!
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As much as you would like to avoid it, there's no getting away from having to wait. You wait on hold on the telephone or wait for meetings or appointments or wait for hockey practice to end or a spouse to finish work, and wait and wait and wait. If you are not careful, waiting can take control of you time. Good self-management puts waiting time to use.
Whether at the office, out and about or at home, here are seven ways to make use of waiting time:
Make it a practice to carry your "tools" with you and you'll find you never have to sit twiddling your thumbs while you wait.
i d e a * i d e a - How to Bubble Map - drawing your To Do the stress-free way -
So a few weeks ago, I began "drawing" my To Do list. Each bubble represents a To Do and the bigger the bubble the more troublesome it is to your mind. I named this map the "bubble map".
Unproductive meetings. To most people, that would be a redundant phrase. Meetings can easily be unproductive and a waste of time. Probably all of us have attended meetings that were not productive and, if we were being honest, have called a few meetings that were a waste of time. Unfortunately, meeting are a fact of business life. If you've gotta have 'em, you might as well make 'em work. Here are some on-line articles on holding productive meetings:
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Personal information management and organization styles can differ greatly among people, even though they may use the same PIM program. Whatever program works best for you may not necessarily work well for the next person. When I come across a PIM that is unique and stands out, I do like to share it with people. One such program is EasyNoter 3.5.
What's the right personal organizer for you? Try this one out
Technorati Tags: Palm+OS, PDA, GTD, Software, PIMPrayer Partner from Laridian is a great program. The problem is keeping organized enough to use it to track prayer requests. The truth is, a big part of the problem is keeping organized in prayer, period.
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