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We have been discussing planner options and here is an excellent question from one of our Life of *E*’s members on how to use your planner to track important information.  Question: I’m using the Levenger circa planner (Morgenstern’s), and also Paper Tiger (all integrated with iCal on my mac and mobile devices). I have a [...]

Tags: organizing, planner ideas, planning, Productivity, tips and tools for planners, tracking important information, using your planner

As a professional, you need as many ideas as you can possibly generate (or capture). Don't let the good ones get away. This article gives you specific means for generating and then capturing all the great ideas you come up with–no matter where you are. This will ensure that you have "pockets" of ideas when [...]

Tags: creativity, ideas, thoughts

Here is a question from one of our members: Q. Do you have a recommendation for an online meeting scheduler you like? Meggin’s Answer: I really like www.TimeTrade.com – I’ve just started my second year using that and I like it.  The more coaching clients I have, the better I like it!  It saves the [...]

Tags: coordinating schedules, managing schedules, on-line schedulers, planning, Productivity, scheduling meetings

If you work in a plant that somehow generates hazardous waste, then you know all about the proper way to deal with hazardous materials. But, for most folks who work in government agencies, schools, colleges, universities, home-based businesses, and the like…you probably can’t even imagine that you have items that are in your office that [...]

Tags: clutter, hazardous materials, hazardous waste, office, workplace

Heavens to Betsy!  Email can cause chaos and can help us resolve some chaos. I hear this in my workshops and in conversations and I live with it myself. Here’s a few ideas related to email and Keys to Keeping Your Email Chaos at Bay. Stop email ping-pong (also known as “boomerang email”). Have a “throwaway” [...]

Tags: chaos, email tips

Marketing that Matters: Lessons from a Puffin Marketing is the process of creating awareness of and interest in your products and/or services – in those who can (and will) access them. ~ Meggin McIntosh If you would like to learn ways to market so it matters, thereby increasing your impact (whether that means students in [...]

Tags: business development, Marketing, Meggin McIntosh, puffin, teleseminar

Many folks are just not sane and sensible about their email – and it ends up controlling them instead of them controlling it!  Here is one important sane and sensible suggestion: DETERMINE when you will check and respond to email.  If you are like the average professional today – and you put this notion into practice, [...]

Tags: access, decide, determine, email, timers

Trapani, Gina. Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day. A hacker is “Someone who solves a problem in a clever or non-obvious way. A lifehacker uses workarounds and shortcuts to overcome everyday difficulties of the modern worker: an interrupt-driven existence of too much to do and too many distractions to keep you from doing [...]

Tags: amazon prime program, Gina Trapani, hacker, tech tricks, technology

Kremer, John.  1001 Ways to Market Your Books (for authors and publishers; paperback), 6th edition Are you kidding me?  1001 ways….  And it’s true.  It’s quite the hefty book (704 pages) and it’s stunning the number of different ideas that are included.  Out of that number, any one of us can surely find at least…10 [...]

Tags: Amazon Prime, book marketing, John Kremer, Marketing, publisher, publishing

Life can become reasonably overwhelming, at least partially due to the incredible number of choices that are available to us in the ‘modern’ world.  If you would like to reduce your overwhelm, one way to do so is to reduce the complexity that exists in your personal and/or professional life.  Specific Areas Where Simplifying Makes [...]

Tags: complex, just whelmed, overwhelmed, simple, simplify