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Jensen, Bill. The Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways to Accomplish Less and More. Are you kidding me? How could I not buy this book? And, I loved it even though I disagreed with portions of it. I gained a number of very useable ideas and appreciate the author’s irreverent style. He is pushing hard to [...]

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Here are some ideas for keeping email chaos at bay: (Note: the ideas will work for all programs, although the keystrokes are MS Outlook). Go to your main Inbox.  You may only have a few items in there, so you can ignore this, but others reading this have hundreds or thousands of items in the main [...]

Tags: email, email tips

  Goodness, gracious.  Sometimes we are just our own worst enemies. You have so many projects to complete, and yet things that are seriously low on the priority list get done first. Here are a few ways to avoid distracting yourself. 1.  At the end of the work day, close it out, i.e., put items [...]

Tags: distractions, self-distractions

Sherwood, Kaitlin. Overcome Email Overload: Get Through Your Electronic Mail Faster. I wish she would update her books, but essentially, Microsoft Outlook 2000/2002 hasn’t changed much with the newer versions. She has a plethora of ideas that I have put into practice. If you use Eudora, she also has a version for that software. VERY [...]

Tags: email management, email overload, Kaitlin Sherwood

Lurking all around you at home, at work, and everywhere in between, there are tasks, situations, technology, humans (and other mammals) who can potentially steal your time. Be on the lookout for the following time thieves: Email Telephone Drop-in visitors Procrastination Self-distraction Filing systems that aren’t Energy suckers (which might include gossip or other negative [...]

Tags: efficiency, email, social media, time thieves

Hallowell, Edward, CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Handling Your Fast-Paced Life. The title alone is probably intriguing to you – and once you read it, you will have a new perspective on whether your life is CrazyBusy and if that’s the way you want to keep it.  Hallowell, who has studied [...]

Tags: book review, crazy busy, Edward Hallowell, overbooked, overstretched

  I wanted to let you know about a thesaurus that I access everyday www.MyFavoriteThesaurus.com Because I’m an avid fan (and big promoter) of this tool, I asked if I could get a code for you to use so you can try this out for a few weeks. Here’s how to use this great online [...]

Here are some ways to keep email chaos at bay.  Note: the ideas will work for all programs, although the keystrokes are MS Outlook. Understand that “cleaning up/clearing out” time needs to be set aside, in the same way that you set aside time to “clean up/clear out” your office. Look in your calendar now and set [...]

Tags: email, email inbox, email tips

Kossek, Ellen Ernst & Lautsch , Brenda A.  CEO of Me. I read this book in preparation for a day-long workshop I was going to be doing at Michigan State University as part of a symposium on Work-Life Balance.  The first author was one of the symposium presenters. This book is fabulous and I’ve bought at [...]

Tags: book review, Brenda A. Lautsch, CEo, Ellen Ernst Kossek

We had another great call the other evening with folks who have been in the 30 Articles in Just 30 Days class (www.30ArticlesinJust30Days.com).  Gini is so great about taking notes…and here they are: Notes from 30 Articles call Jan 2010 Lots of great ideas!!

Tags: 30 Articles, call notes, Gini Cunningham, writing, writing tips