Posted on January 18th, 2010, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.
If you want to write a “top ten” list to help people be more productive, just do the following:
Title your set of tips, e.g., “Top Ten Productivity Tips to Help You _________.”
Write an introduction. Your introduction can be one sentence or a full paragraph. It’s just a little introductory piece that prepares everyone for the [...]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2009, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.
What distracts you? Is it sounds, physical movement, clutter, your own brain, or maybe something else? Before you can begin to eliminate distractions, you have to identify what they are. This article categorizes distractions and offers several examples for each. See if any of these could be distracting you.
Distracting sounds include:
email sounds
telephones ringing [...]
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Posted on April 16th, 2009, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.
I really like David Pogue’s tips and ideas, and this was in his column awhile back and I’ve been saving and am now finally posting…There were a bunch of these I knew and a bunch that I didn’t. Probably will be true for you, too.
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/10/02/technology/circuitsemail/index.html?8cir&emc=cir
If we could all learn one new tip each week, it would increase our [...]
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Posted on November 8th, 2008, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.
Question posed during today’s Life of E’s Email Extravaganza:
I will be gone tomorrow so I wanted to email you a question in advance. I have been answering questions from former collegues regarding working with a certain type of student. It has occurred to me I need to write a “tips” book to get all this [...]
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Posted on July 30th, 2008, by Meggin McIntosh
Report on a consultation with Paulette Ensign:
Licensing my Tips Booklet:
I recently had the benefit of a 30 minute consultation with Paulette Ensign of Tips Products International.
Here are some of the ideas she gave me that I thought I could share with others who want to license their tips booklets or have written tips booklets or [...]
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Posted on January 16th, 2008, by Meggin McIntosh
Announcement from a member:
Greetings MEM Club,
Today I announce that I have my free Weekly Tips available on my web site. They are called KJ’s Book Tips. I have chosen some favorite titles, written some questions prompts, and a positive reading habit to develop. While I have written these with parents in mind, the titles and [...]
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