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7 Tips for Decluttering Your Desk

Ian's Messy Desk

If your desk harbours mounds of papers, books, files and personal accessories, you may be adding unnecessary stress to your day. Set up a good filing system. Colour–coded files are especially helpful — they show you at a glance where something should go. Put items that must be looked at in a special folder or file.

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FacileThings Gives Time Back To You

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Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. I started to implement the approach explained in the book, using notebooks, excel files and the like, and my life got better until a certain point. Grab a copy now of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen ]. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest Post.

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5 Ways to Free Up Room on Your Brain's Hard Drive

Ian's Messy Desk

Delete unnecessary files: With a computer, you can free up space by sending unnecessary files to the trash. How about all those “junk files” on your mental hard drive? Download: Many “must keep” files that don’t need to reside on your hard drive can be downloaded onto a disk. Delegate whenever you can.

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5 Tips for Productivity, Organizing and Changing Your Life

Stephanie LH Calahan

.  In the picture above you see a standard file cabinet on the left and one that is open and on wheels on the right.    Both are containers for holding files, but one would work better for an "innie" and the other would work better for an "outtie."   If not, now is the time to start!

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19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Don't Want To.

Stephanie LH Calahan

By using labels in combination with filters, I am able to automatically sort and label (file) most of my e-mail before it arrives in my in-box. I'll read and delete and save those of interest in a file. Set 3 times a day to process what is in your in-box, moving processed email into a separate sub-folder.

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Conquering The Open Loops Of Productivity

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. 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. File System. Introduction.

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6 Areas of Your Business Life that You MUST Have Flow to Make More.

Stephanie LH Calahan

  While it is really from the grass family, bamboo has some amazing strategic growth processes --heck some can even grow up to 100 feet tall!    The more you can put systems and processes to the work you do, the stronger you become and the more you can grow and even survive harsh conditions.   Bamboo?