Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Check out this great tool » Favorite Planning/Calendar Tool - Readers Speak Out There are many ways to manage your time and activities.  What is your favorite planning/calendar tool and why? What is your favorite planning/calendar tool and why? Of all the calendar tools I know, this one handles tasks the best.

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Clutter Coach

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

This episode is sponsored by Clean Email, the answer to email inbox overload. I’ve written about ways to clear out that clutter, but you can save time by using the Clean Email app. You can use my special link to sign up for Clean Email here with a 30% discount: [link]. This is podcast 132 and it’s about decision controls.

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Worxbee

MAY 10, 2021

Of course, there’s also the question of how much you pay for the help. Executive assistants are proactive by nature and will create their own to-do lists (based on a good understanding of what your needs and goals are, of course!). An EA will make sure your calendar is blocked with the buffer time you need to prepare for the next task.

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C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 31, 2021

One way to alleviate some of the stress is to work with an executive assistant. Some of the tasks that executive assistants can take on include: Become your right-hand gatekeeper by managing complex personal and professional calendars and scheduling internal and external meetings.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

  I've tried delegating through email, google and drop box.  You, of course, choose which section to drop a task in. You can set a due date, and even sych the due date to your calendar. 3 - Declutter Your Email Inbox. It will then show up in Asana with the attachments and everything from the email intact.

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Office Organization Success

OCTOBER 5, 2013

It’s a system whereby you can get your clients to self-schedule their appointments with you, avoiding the back and forth of emails that happens when you’re trying to arrangement appointments and, of course, the time spent doing this. It works with both Outlook and Google calendars. ” at [link].

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 27, 2013

System #9 of the Your Systems For Success program focuses specifically on managing your emails and managing your calendar … two huge sources of time drain for many business owners. This course also provides you with 40+ done-for-you templates, cheat sheets, and checklists, plus a ton of business building resources.

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Productivity Bits

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Our inability to control things causes us to stress out. The thing is – and I cannot stress this enough – you don’t try closing them out but must control them. The open loops can become constant source of stress if not controlled. Please signup to my email list to receive free updates from Productivity Bits.

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The Office Professionals Place

JULY 16, 2010

Enhancing your worklife will increase productivity, reduce stress, and maintain focus on job tasks. Organization means implementing an appropriate filing system (electronically and paper) and utilizing your task lists and calendar effectively so that you can locate items quickly when needed which increases productivity. Be proactive.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 14, 2012

If I don't tackle them head on, they will stress me out all day so I try to knock them out as soon as possible. I look at my to-do list at the beginning of each week and schedule my tasks in my calendar as if they were a client meeting. I found that if I blocked out time in my calendar, it helped me in a couple of ways.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 16, 2010

There will always be 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year (unless it is a leap year of course). PS -- If you've enjoyed this post and want to see more, why not subscribe to our daily emails ( Feedblitz ) or through the RSS Feed ( click here )?  Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? Are they smarter?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JUNE 14, 2009

My favourite to-do list is a calendar timeline so I can see at a glance where I am at and what I need to do to get there. It is simply using an on-line calendar with space on each day to enter what needs to be done. To generate a calendar in Word 2007, click on the Office Button (in the top left-hand corner). No surprises!

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Success

JUNE 20, 2023

Perhaps your goal that day is to spend time with your family or enjoy a day on the golf course.) So read the books and articles, listen to the audio and take the courses. Limit how often you check and answer emails. You set aside two different times during the day to answer email: once at the start, the second at the end.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

Of course, there are many other features, but these are the highlights, in my opinion. It allows us to easily email branded invoices to our clients, which they can then pay by mail or online. By recording payments as we receive them, we can just as easily monitor overdue payments and send email reminders. Find here: steph.bz/jI9HDF.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 7, 2012

Be aware and mindful to ask insightful questions now over the course of many months. Try to set up the communication of the office so your boss checks their own emails and responds, but you are in charge of all the mtg coordination, phones, and anything that happens in the office.

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Get Organized!

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Stress, unhealthy diet, sleep deprivation — all lead to poor brain function. 3) Memory cues Putting a sticky note message on your bathroom mirror, setting a watch alarm to beep an hour before a big appointment, noting and checking to-dos on your calendar, creating pop-up reminders in your email — these are all popular examples of memory cues.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 25, 2011

I make sure that I send an email to the contacts I met and set up coffee meetings to make a better connection with the ones that I am most interested in pursuing further. Not Worth Stressing Out About. Next I import them into IContact and send them a nice to meet you eMail. Business Card Binder. By doing all that. Speed stuns.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 26, 2014

I also handle his executive calendar and work in the office with him. You know deep down what he is asking of you is par for the course and totally reasonable, but your reaction isn’t congruent to the situation. I also thought long and hard about why I was so unhappy and stressed at my job and why I had growing resentment.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Of course we know that people like this are not the Queen and their self-importance is only from themselves, but they can sure make your life miserable while you are in their kingdom. I gave at the office Calendar "ah ha" Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog What ever happened to the "us" in Service?

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2007

They are penalized for having a family and this causes additional stress and anxiety. Should our camera pick up motion we are sent an email, SMS and phone call – which is great for us. It is very easy to run yourself down in a job that is high stress. Well don Interwatch Security!

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Productivity Bits

JUNE 10, 2011

However, what can be a big secret is how successful professionals manage to balance the stress and responsibility of their work life, with the inevitable stress and responsibility of their home life. Blocking out these times on a calendar, turning off the phone and pronouncing ourselves unavailable helps keep any distractions away.

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Jen Lawrence

MARCH 25, 2019

Access to email means your boss can find you wherever, whenever. I was always on-call, responding to emails within moments of receiving them and handling tasks quickly because I didn’t want to be a bottleneck in productivity. and you can even use color coding in your calendar to indicate task types. Don’t go.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

" The playing field of the world is leveling off which means that the competition, pace and stress levels are at maximum. Tame Your Email 1. Turn off email alerts when emails arrive in your inbox. If you know that you will never answer an email, delete it right away. Utilize your calendar to schedule tasks.

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Jen Lawrence

MARCH 25, 2019

Access to email means your boss can find you wherever, whenever. I was always on-call, responding to emails within moments of receiving them and handling tasks quickly because I didn’t want to be a bottleneck in productivity. and you can even use color coding in your calendar to indicate task types. Don’t go.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JULY 8, 2011

" Entrepreneurship can be high stress, leading to mental fatigue. Get Clear On Your Priorities And Stay The Course. All of my tasks are assigned time slots in my calendar, so when something new comes along it also has to have a timeslot. Post up messages, ideas, emails, other sites you run across.sync with your Gmail too!

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Virtual Moxie

OCTOBER 1, 2012

I can't stress enough how important I've found this to be--especially with people closest to you in your business. Of course there are many other things that happen, but in terms of big things, four's about all I can handle. there's any urgency to your needing me, you should send me email. Communication needs to be easy.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 19, 2009

The switchboard can get so busy at times that its just not possible to introduce every call that comes through (except, of course, for those calling for the big bosses). I have a love/hate relationship with the email autofill. RE: #5 - As a "receptionist" myself, I feel a need to defend our not always letting you know who is calling.

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 17, 2010

And this is exactly what I’m going to do in this blog post, I will publish these daily logs (in a more or less abridged version of course) giving you a time based description of the whole process, from installing Xcode to having your app in the AppStore. And of course I wanted something more. Incredibly stressful. Complicated.

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