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Get organized for back to school

Ian's Messy Desk

Have a Centralized Calendar. A family calendar can help you track what is going on for all family members. Determine what documents you need for school registration. They don’t want to think about school a day earlier than necessary. Here are some tips to prepare home and family for getting into the back-to-school groove.

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2 Measures of effective productivity systems…

Ian's Messy Desk

It doesn’t matter whether you use an electronic document system like Eric Mack , or a shoe box in your closet: if you can’t retrieve the information when you need it, the system is not effective. My mother has gotten things done by using heavily annotated paper calendars.

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10 Tips to Help Keep Your Desk Clean

Ian's Messy Desk

Add dated or calendar items to a tickler file system or a diary as soon as they arrive. The trick for any of them is to learn to use MULTIPLE TAGS so that you can find them, otherwise – for example, your searches will pull up a thousand documents with the word ‘HTML’ in them.

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