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How To Organize Anything

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How To Organize Anything Organizing is a simple concept whose difficulty lies in implementation. But it’s very easy to understand how to organize anything. Today we look at the steps on how to organize anything. Why Organize? Before we talk about how , let’s tackle the why. Mainly because I believe that if you don’t understand why you’re doing something, you’re not going to do it.

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Optimize Your Sleep

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Sleep is one of the best things you can do for yourself. Good sleep can help ward off minor viruses and major diseases , but it is also one of the things that a large portion of people don’t do. Yet optimizing your sleep is easy. Today we will look at how you can optimize your sleep. I myself have consistently shorted myself on sleep for years. There were many reasons I told myself, from needing to get more things done to not really needing sleep to wanting time to myself after everyone else wen

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Simple Ways To Limit Spam

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Simple Ways To Limit Spam Spam seems to be getting worse. I received so much spam at my work email address that I have to deal with it daily. My husband is getting so much spam to his old primary address that he set up filters in Outlook to delete emails with two specific words – and it eliminates 90% of the email in that account. Even Bill Gates is not immune.

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Better Project Goals

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There are many things on my project lists, and they fall into two categories. Most of them are ones that are short-term and have a specific outcome. The rest are long-term goals. By shifting how I view these long-term goals, I make better goals and have made a lot more progress in a short amount of time The Types of Project Project Goals Immediate Goals Immediate goals are things that are short-timed and have a well defined outcome.

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Why You Should Have Backup Skills

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What would you do if your main source of income went away? It’s something that can happen quickly, whether through reduction in force, worker replacement or platform changes. Today we are going to look at why you should have backup skills and how to get them. Having backup skills means that you can pivot and have more opportunities for finding a job should the main source of income vanish.

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Redefining Email Processing

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Redefining Email Processing I believe that it is human nature to complicate things unconsciously. We tweak, we add, and suddenly we are left with a behemoth that might not be serving us all that well. My email is no exception, and I got to the point where I was unable to process email at all. I spent some time redefining email processing with the goal of simplifying the process while not losing track of any email.

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Productivity Myths Busted: What Productivity Looks Like for the Majority of Us

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I have long been aware of the bad advice and methods that many of the “experts” in the productivity community have given over the years. While I understand that everyone’s opinions are colored by their experience, these productivity myths that are being touted are actually damaging. Today I will examine some of the productivity myths I have seen over the years.

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