Life of E's

Without a planner…you are letting others spend your life instead of recognizing the wisdom of Carl Sandburg when he said, "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it's spent."   Of course, just "having" a planner isn't enough. You have to use [...]

Tags: calendar, managing time, monthly, notes, organizer, planner, productive, Resources, stress management, tips, to do list, tools, weekly, yearly

Systems are a key element to productivity. While you may not use every system every day, having systems that are available to you the moment you need them, helps you limit the amount of time you worry about a task so you can get right down to completing it. Your desk is a place to [...]

Tags: clutter, efficiency, filing, inbox, organize, outbox, paper management, planner, productive, simplify, software, strategies, systems, tools

Recently I had a question posed to me by one of my coaching clients.  She asked: What is your take on “save the date” emails for upcoming business meetings? Meggin's answer: Well… In so many ways, they have become the new rage.  It started with brides sending them out, I think and then moved to [...]

Tags: business, email, meeting, messages, organizing, planner, Productivity, save the date

The Time Management Tech Doesn't Matter (Much!) — it is the "infrastructure" that lies underneath the tech that matters! Do you have your time/life/e-mail management infrastructure in place? Do you have all of the pieces you need to manage this important stuff properly? Do you even know what the right "infrastructure pieces" are? Regardless of [...]

Tags: calendar, ideas, notebook, planner, prepared, references, store

Sane and sensible people strategically survey a situation before making their choices.  If you have any hope of creating a sane and sensible schedule, you need to survey the situation before putting your schedule together. Once you have surveyed the situation, then you can make choices based on what you see.  Let’s use a metaphor [...]

Tags: calendar, meetings, planner, scheduling, time management, work

Have you ever had an idea that came to you, but you later forgot it? Have you ever thought of something that you needed to do and told yourself that you’d remember, but, uh, you didn’t? At any given moment, ideas will come to you. Some of these ideas are major, some are minor, but [...]

Tags: ideas, inbox, inspiration, memory, notes, planner, post-it, writing

A question that often comes up in workshops as well as on my blog is this one: How do you suggest people use their calendar (planner) in conjunction with the tickler (1-31) files? Sometimes I wonder if I am duplicating my efforts by using a calendar and the tickler files. It seems like the tickler [...]

Tags: anchoring, calendar, email, Julie Morgenstern, organizing, planner, strategies, tickler file

You are your business. You are your profession. You are your best representative. However you want to think about it, in nearly every profession, you need to be out there ‘selling’ yourself, regardless of whether you’re in sales or not. Networking may be very natural to you – or not so much. If you are [...]

Tags: business cards, document, interview, networking, planner, questions

Question: Hi, Meggin, I’m a certified GO Trainer and I often get this question from a few class participants and I’ve run into this myself.  How do you suggest people use their calendar in conjunction with the tickler files? I’ve had at least one person say they feel they are duplicating their efforts by using [...]

Tags: calendar, files, GO, Julie Morgenstern, planner, Swiftfiles