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September 16, 2009

Get More Done In Less Time

What would you do if you found yourself with an extra hour a day? Would you get a jump on the next day’s work? Would you use it to work on that never-ending honey-do list? Would you use that extra hour to ensure you would have an extra hour every day to make yourself invaluable to your employer, your spouse, or your community?

Even if you are a stay-at-home mom or a CEO, chances are if you are “at least at certain times during the year” required to do extensive reading for your job. Quarterly reports or the latest parenting blogs and books can range from two pages to two hundred, and that can take some time to read especially when you are supposed to be keeping up on what the competitors are doing, or you only have naptime to yourself and want to take full advantage.

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Developed by Dr. Jay Polmar, a former university instructor and author with over 40 titles to his name, the Speed Read Complete Family Edition has been used by people of all ages from third grade to grandma and grandpa. Speed Read Complete has been translated into five languages and the program has been used in over 25 countries around the world to help people learn to speed read in their native language.

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What would you do with that extra time a day that you never had before? Get more sleep? Spend time with your family? Go out with friends? Finally do all those things you’d always said you wanted to do but never had time “like volunteering at a local charity? What would you do if you could read faster” finally join a book club? Take a continuing education class? Read the encyclopedia?

How about “whatever you would like to do”?

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February 12, 2009

Time to Get Rid of Stress

by Tom Mailcoat

Work stress management is an important facet of owning a business concern with productive and happy employees. By attempting to shrink the incidence and degree of tension happening inside and outside the work, a business concern can be assured of possessing staff that are content with how their bosses deal with them.

One of the fundamental ways of minimizing stress in the work is by studying how to provide inspiration for the workers. Enthusiastic employees produce more, are competent in addition to being more content than those that aren’t, and normally find work more of a joy than just a means to pay debts. The usually feel more fulfilled and empowered for what they do for the business which normally translates into fewer employee troubles, less absent workers as well as less broad Work stress. Trying to provide enthusiasm to workers demands more than just holding a common company motivating message or broadcasting inspiring e-mail to everyone because true enthusiasm originates from better action than just that.

In order for inspiration to discover its way to the business front, it should begin from the company leaders themselves because it is tough to win over or enthuse people below if the people at the top do not feel the identical way. A business organization owner, for example, should find inspiration for himself in order to try and convince other workers even though this may call for a thorough review of the causes for what pushes the business to be prosperous and endeavor to begin with. A business organisation owner finding enthusiasm motivation enough to remain productive, may have an easier time in trying to convince and inspire others. You may also need to look at your comnay’s time management problems to make progress with motivation.

It takes assorted things to enthuse workers so for you to know what they are, you may need to ask questions. Try to enquire what motivates and inspires your workers, peculiarly what is essential to them and then mange your resources accordingly. If the business concern proprietor is honest enough in this task, workers will feel favoured enough that an employer would like to know what makes them happy. By executing such a gesture, employees may feel that a boss tries to maintain their best interest, enough to ask what concerns and makes them content, plus happy employees are more motivated to work and may feel less stress while doing it. Adding some fun to a workplace may also to a lot to inspire and inspire employees because it can be fairly simple to make the work tedious and tiresome. Such a work environment does not prompt workers at all so varying all that can help to make workers happier and increasingly content.

Making work enjoyable can be sufficient to inspire employees and it also does well for effective workplace stress control. One of the methods to do it is by attempting to recognize their accomplishments, regardless of how small. Commending employees for doing tasks as plain as clearing the larder of trash or by helping to show a visitor around at the office without being requested, can be enough to keep employee spirits up. Repaying workers for tiny but positive tasks also works very well on the same facet. A luncheon treat for an worker who has made an outstanding study would mean a lot to motivate others to do even more.

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January 30, 2009

The Best Way To Set Up A Tickler File

by Dojo Kuhn

On Day 6 of the GTD Thirty Day Challenge, I am going to talk about how I set up my tickler file and exactly how to set up a tickler file.

From what I can tell, David Allen is a big believer in the 43 folders tickler file. If you haven’t seen a tickler file before, it is 12 folders for each month and 31 folders for each day. Right now it’s January so I’d have my 31 folders behind January. As each day passes, I’d move the previous date behind February. Since today is the 21st for me. Folders for days 1-20 would now be behind the February tab.

Now, how do you use it? Today, I had a bill I learned I had to pay on February 3. I don’t want to forget it, so I would put it behind my February 3 tab. When that day rolls around, I check my tickler file and it prompts me to pay the bill.

If you asked me, I think using 43 folders for my tickler file is not the best way to set up a tickler file. First, it’s hard to remember to check the tickler each day. You’ll be asking yourself, “how do I remind myself to check the tickler file?” Secondly, it’s very bulky and not very portable. Third, when you move the folders for each day to the next month you have to take items in that months folder and put them in the right day.

The tickler file is essential to your GTD set up, however, because you have to remember future items. If you have a lot of physical items then the tickler file is the way to go. In my case, I don’t have tons of physical items and so here is my solution to the above problems with a tickler file.

How To Set Up A Tickler File

The first thing to do is to create a plastic folder for your briefcase called “Waiting For” and put all the things you need to remember in the future in it.

After I have my “Waiting For” folder set up, next I would create a folder called “Yahoo Reminders” in my email account. You can see how I set this up if you read my article on How To Set Up Your GTD email. Then filter all of your reminders directly to this folder so they bypass your inbox.

The last component is Yahoo calendar. I put any item I need to remember and enter it as an all day event. I attach and email reminder to it that sends me a reminder 2 days ahead of the day I need to remember it. As a second reminder, a text is sent too.

Using the example above, the bill that’s due on the third of February gets entered onto my calendar as an all day event like “pay this bill” and an email reminder gets sent to me 2 days before that date. Then I slip the bill in my “Waiting For” folder in my briefcase.

On February 1st, an email is sent ot me that reminds me I have to pay a bill on the third. The email bypasses my inbox and is filtered into my Yahoo reminder folder. As a backup, I get a text message too. Using text and email both gives me a backup in case I can’t check my Yahoo reminders folder I then have a reminder sitting on my blackberry too. I review my reminders each day on my Blackberry and if I am at my computer, I review them too.

This setup is especially lightweight and extremely portable. It reminds me of everything so I do not have to remember to check. I also don’t have to move stuff around in my tickler file. If you don’t use email reminders, you really don’t have any idea how valuable they can be. My suggestion is use them, even if you use the 43 folders as your tickler file. They will improve your GTD system 100%

Once you learn how to set up a tickler file in this fashion, you’ll find it ideal for maximum effectiveness.

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