Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 9, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap 5 Ways to Free Up Room on Your Brain’s Hard Drive Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on April 9, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Lynn was tapped to head up the project team for a major company restructuring. “I Thanks for visiting! Lynn was hardly reassured.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 31, 2010

In no time, we’ll be into the annual holiday season. Here are links to Christmas and holiday related posts at Ian’s Messy Desk. Start Your Christmas Planning in August – Organized Christmas has a Holiday Grand Plan. Writing the perfect thought or holiday letter will make your Christmas greetings memorable.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Here’s a simple checklist to help you organize your Christmas holiday celebrations. Prepare budget and plan projects: Figure out how much you are able to spend. Once you know what you can spend, determine what you can give in the way of gifts, what kind of entertaining you can do, etc. Sit down with the family and decide who does what.

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Ian's Messy Desk

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

If you want to reduce the stress associated with the holiday season, get an early start on holiday planning. To reduce holiday stress this year, create a holiday checklist to make the season go smoothly. Take a stock of your pantry and fill it up with necessary items.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 25, 2010

Read: The Best To-Do List You’ll Ever Make Crumple up your to-do sheet and throw it away. Do the third task. Cross it off. There is something very satisfying about cross ing off to-do’s and tossing the completed list.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 25, 2010

Make an appointment - Don’t just hope you find the time to clean up, set a calendar entry and stick to it. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap 8 Tips to Help You Clean Off Your Desk Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on May 25, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

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Ian's Messy Desk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

You don’t fire up PowerPoint and start creating slides. The audience is giving up work or personal time to listen to you, but it’s because you’re going to have something to say. When Preparing for Public Speaking The boss e-mails and says you are going to be training employees on the features of the new software roll-out.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 21, 2010

Lighten up… if you can – Humour can go a long way to keeping the listener’s attention. Make sure it’s worth saying – Record your speech and play it back. After each key point, ask yourself, “does anybody care?” If the answer is “no”, change what you will say. However, if you can’t tell a joke or aren’t particularly funny, skip it.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 26, 2010

You don’t want papers to build up to the point where you look at it and you get discouraged. The easiest way to avoid that is to keep up to date. If you do keep stuff, keep it in a way so that it doesn’t jam up your life and you can find it again. If the amount is small, three times a week may do.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 18, 2010

Try a “pick-me-up&# – Listen to high-energy music, so long as it doesn’t disturb co-workers or workflow. Are you staying up too late at night, watching television in bed or do you have a sleep disorder. Schedule tasks appropriately – After lunch is not the best time to read the long, lulling policy eport.

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Ian's Messy Desk

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

With increased commercial activity during the holiday season of the year, it is a good idea to be extra careful to guard againstidentity theft. Follow up with creditors if bills don’t arrive on time. Six of the tips are for consumers and the other six for merchants. Six points for consumers : Ask how personal information (eg.

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Ian's Messy Desk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Too many objects add to the clutter and eat up valuable work space. Set up a good filing system. Don’t allow things to pile up. Be reasonable about what you really need to keep out. Don’t go overboard with personalization. Use a daily planner. Transfer all your notes and personal reminders to one, organized place.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 12, 2010

Louis found that people who sleep after storing a memory end up following through on their intentions much more effectively than people who jump right in without sleeping. New research suggests, when planning for tomorrow’s to-do’s, sleeping on it will make you more likely to get things done. Researchers at Washington University in St.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 14, 2010

In the run-up to the launch we worked closely with some of our favorite blogs and publications to launch the new Notebooks category. Not only is it, in essence, an app store for Evernote, it is a place to distribute content to users.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 16, 2010

The Quotations page ( pop-up alert ) – The oldest quotation site on the Web, with more than 25,200 quotations from over 3,000 authors. When I am looking for quotations , these are 10 sites I have bookmarked: Wikiquote – A wiki of quotes from the Wikipedia family of reference. Famousquotations.com – quotations, quotes and proverbs.

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 14, 2010

Those personal distractions can eat up a lot of time. Just write down for a day every little thing that distracted you and whichever one took up the most time get rid of that first. Turn off the television – there’s not much worth watching anyway. Block interruptions – close the office door. Let the telephone go to the voice mail.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 10, 2010

This handbook automatically leaps ahead of other Notes/GTD options available as it takes you through setting up a GTD system using a basic Notes installation; no need for add-ons to make it work. A 35 page step-by-step manual for optimizing Notes as a personal productivity tool.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 28, 2010

Test you telephone skills with this simple quiz: How quickly should you pick up a ringing phone? Set up your voice mail to answer after the third ring. Get the information up front. While forms of technology are making inroads into the communication process, the telephone is still an important source of contact with people.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 26, 2010

Suck it up. It can be as simple as going to a new restaurant for supper, but more likely to be as terrifying as taking up sky-diving. Follow these four steps and pretty soon you’ll unleash your creative thinking and making others sit up and take notice. Creativity leads to more creativity. Learn from the example of others.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 20, 2010

Instead of jumping up every time you have work to deliver, stow it in an expandable file with slots organized by department. You’ll be able to resume your work much faster than from a cold start. Find urgent computer files faster by starting file names with numbers. That ensures that they will be at the top of your list of files.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 6, 2010

Planning really enables focus, and saying “No&# frees up time to actually do what was planned. Which is the most valuable? I think that (1) make a daily plan and (6) learn to say “No&# are two that stand out.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 9, 2010

Find ways to express yourself through your strengths. You will increase your self-confidence when you share what you know to others.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 27, 2010

The process of thinking up the images and making the connection will fix them into your memory. Let the name invoke a visual image you can link with the person’s face. Small uses the example : If Mrs. Beatty has broad lips, imagine Warren Beatty kissing those lips.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 28, 2010

In their book, Listen Up : How To Improve Relationships, Reduce Stress , Barker and Watson say that trying to top the other person’s story is one of those irritating habits that interferes with our ability to listen well. as if the listener has made up his mind. while pointing to his wooden leg. Saying, “Yes, but.,”

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 14, 2010

Speak up : Greet you co-workers as you meet them through the day. Shut up : Listen more than you speak. Know your own weaknesses : Don’t get caught up in gossip. Tearing down another to prop yourself up is a huge waste of time. Here are ten steps you can take to make sure you’re not the source of conflict at work.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 25, 2010

Round up your papers. Tighten up current household systems. Be prepared before you head out. Assess what the kids have, what they need, what can be handed down and what needs to be thrown out. Then, with list in hand, hit the stores. Eliminate last-minute searches. Determine what documents you need for school registration.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 7, 2010

You pull up the spreadsheet , print off your boss’s e-mailed comments, dig out your notes from the last meeting and settle down to work. Stand up for visitors. If a visitor comes into your office, stand up to greet them and don’t invite them to sit down. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 5, 2010

I work to understand the underlying causes for procrastination, then come up with strategies to overcome them. I recognize that procrastination is a habit. As with any bad habit, I need to replace it with good habits. I conquer procrastination by working on tasks and my environment. How do these three steps play out in practical ways?

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 7, 2010

Come up with an argument that is reasonable. Make sure you have a clear purpose in mind so that the audience will respond in the way you want them to. Search for other sources of information. There might be more materials available for you to make your speech more colorful. Add structure to your message.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 23, 2010

They conjure up all kinds of nightmare scenarios as a result of their stage fright : What if I freeze? Now comes the difficult part, standing in front of a room full of people and giving the speech. Some people would prefer to dive over a cliff than make a speech. What if the audience hates me on sight?

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 2, 2010

Don’t: Don’t give up right away if your protégé initially resists your help. .� Be prepared for the relationship to end. The successful protégé -mentor cycle requires that the protégé move on and the relationship either ends ortakes a different form. They may not recognize the value of what you have to offer.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 4, 2010

Take productivity courses online and read up. Others carry on self-directed learning in recreational arts and hobbies, matters of health, family and community, or simply to increase their intellectual resources. Attend brown-bag lunches, trade shows and conferences. Ask them for the ideas, tips or secrets to their productivity success.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Closing up your body profile—becoming smaller—looks like you lack confidence. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. A n open posture – Keep an open body position.

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Ian's Messy Desk

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Or, you have someone you need to follow-up with on November 22nd. You forward it to, for example, tuesday@nudgemail.com. On Tuesday, it forwards the message back. You forward it to 11222010@nudgemail.com. Nudgemail forwards it back to you on November 22nd. It’s simple.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Make sure you have a working pen and a back up. Before you hang up, read the message details back to the caller, to make certain that they are correct. Have a common location for the pick up of message or place it in a location where it will be seen. Make sure there is lots of space on the message pad. Thanks for the reminder.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 12, 2010

We expend energy rushing through the day trying to keep up with ourselves. Look for ways to free-up time. A few minutes saved here and there can add up to a significant portion of time. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! When you enjoy what you are doing, it reduces stress.

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 23, 2010

I will cover the following six topics: Analysing your audience Preparing your speech Delivering the speech Building credibility as you speak Interacting with your audience and handling questions Feedback and follow-up If you have any suggestions or questions to help shape the posts, leave them in the comment section below.

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