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Discovery of the Day
Ageless Learner has a variety of interesting assessments and articles, including a learning culture audit.
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Email Management
Managing email is a major task. Knowledge workers spend 28% of their time on email.-bakadesuyo.com. Luckily, there is lots of information available on how to handle it. Listed below are a few links to articles I have found helpful. The…
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Paper Management
Oh, the paper possibilities! You can pile, you can procrastinate, you can create problems for yourself, or you can prepare a system. The 4 D’s of Productivity apply to paper management. They are: Do It Delegate It Delete It Delay…
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Files
Files here, files there, files everywhere! There is so much paper to manage, and all kinds of files. Action files, financial files, tickler files, household records files, reference files, computer files. The tricky part about files is you have to…
Remind Yourself
We all could use a little help to remember things to do. We don’t want to forget important appointments or meetings, deadlines for projects, or repeating tasks. Electronic Reminders can be set in an electronic calender or apps like Google…
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Discovery of the Day
Success From the Nest is a new addition to the list of creative blogs I read. It has great cartoons plus this great post about discovering your passion(s). Reading Make It Great! led me to Rothacker Reviews … which led…
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Follow-up
Follow-up systems can handle: deferred actions task start and due dates meeting materials phone call-backs bill paying tickets tracking projects delegated tasks Methods Simplest: Mark a calendar and hold papers in a “Pending” file-idea from Stephanie Winston. Simple: Tickler file…
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Household Records File
Adventures in Home Ownership The good news is I am on a clutter busting roll! The bad news is I’m exhausted…whew. I have just enough energy to share my mistakes that you may learn from them. It all started when…
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My Sister Invented The Birthday Calculator
My sister is a smart cookie. She devised an Excel worksheet that calculates the ages of family members on their birthdays with a formula. (Names have been changed to protect the innocent.) You too can have your very own birthday…
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Daily PlanIt 