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How Simple Policies Can Change Your Business

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While this makes sense, it doesn’t mean you should ignore behind-the-scenes business administration tasks, such as setting policies. Policies that outline how you run various elements of your business, and why you do it that way, set boundaries and create a foundation for the business. Will you work on weekends and holidays?

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Manage Your Paper With a RAFT

Ian's Messy Desk

Use the RAFT template: refer it, act on it, file it or toss it. Refer it to the correct person, if you’re not the one to handle it. If you prefer a look of activity and busyness, paper piles may be the answer. 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.

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8 Tips to Help You Clean Off Your Desk

Ian's Messy Desk

Sort – everything into boxes/containers according to what needs to be done: file , shred, recycle , refer, toss, etc. Process the paper – take the items you sorted into boxes and put them where they belong: filing, your tickler or reading folder or delegate/refer to a more appropriate person, etc.

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10 Sites for Quotations

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When I am looking for quotations , these are 10 sites I have bookmarked: Wikiquote – A wiki of quotes from the Wikipedia family of reference. There is a lot of knowledge to be culled and transfered from others. The brainy quote – thousands of quotations organized by topic, author and type.

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Getting Things Done with Lotus Notes

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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.

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Memory Makeover: Tips to Spruce Up an Absent Mind

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The encoding stage refers to the process of putting information into memory. The storage stage refers to retention or maintaining information in memory. The retrieval stage refers to recovering information from memory. Get hooked on mnemonics. Mnemonic devices boost memory through associations.

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How to exorcise your demons of disorganization

Ian's Messy Desk

Reference Files: store in a convenient location close to your desk. If you have an open-door policy, place your back to the entrance, or face away from your cubicle entry to indicate your unavailability. Archive Files: store in a filing cabinet or an off-site location. Keep the office door closed.

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