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guarantee you can save an hour a day with
the tips in any one of these sections!
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Section 1: This is Your
Brain
There are many excellent
reasons to get organized, but the best one I know is that
human brains have not had any major structural change
for about 50,000 years. Meanwhile, in the 1900's the amount
of information that we process has multiplied by a factor
of thousands (N. Y. Times). We simply are not designed
to deal with it all. The National Institute of Occupational
Safety and Health says a full eighty percent of all medical
conditions are directly stress related. What better reason
to learn how to use your own brain with less stress for
better results?
Includes Tips
Articles "Ergonomic Dynamos," "Pump Up Your Personal Best
Power Hour," and "Human Circadian Timeline." |
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Section 2: Overcoming Information Overload
One daily edition of
the New York Times has more information than
a person living 100 years ago was exposed to in their
lifetime! In our information-saturated world it's increasingly
stressful to decide how to take appropriate advantage
of the countless demands for our attention and time. Since
seventy percent of American workers main job is finding
even more information it makes managing everything even
more difficult. The fear that keeps us going under the
onslaught of incoming information is "I might need this
someday." Sound familiar? Unfortunately, that inevitably
turns into "I know I had it here … somewhere." It's
no wonder we can't find what we're looking for!
Includes Tips
Articles "Hot Questions to Melt Information Overload,"
"Working Your Info Zones," and "RAFT over the Info River
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Section 3: Victory Over Paper
The New York Times
reports that the average U.S. executive wastes six weeks
each year just shuffling through paper piles and computer
files. Got better things to do with your time? Me, too!
Take a minute, and just imagine what you could accomplish
at your business and in your life with six weeks more
in each year. All that time can be yours, just for upgrading
your paper organizing skills.In every cross-industry management
survey over the last twenty years paper appears in the
Top Ten Time Wasters. Yet, from the day it arrives —
eighty percent of all filed material is NEVER referred
to again!
Includes Tips
Articles "Hot Tips to Melt the Paper Blizzard," "Business
Card Blitz," and "1-2-3--Sort!" |
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Section 4: Organizing Your Computer
Since most of us have
one hand in the paper world and the other in the electronic
world, setting yourself up for optimum efficiency and
minimal stress means blending your computer desktop with
your paper filing. The more your paper and electronic
systems mimic each other, the easier it will be to remember
where to put either kind of file as well as where to look
for them. I promise that you need not be a techie to improve
your computing with my tips.
Includes Tips
Articles "Organizing Your Computer," "Effective E-mail,"
"Computer Clutter Clean-Up," and "Stop that Spam!" |
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Section 5: Personal
Organizing at Home
Let's face it, if you
have a family and a home you are in the business of having
a life. Perhaps you are one of those folks whose workplace
is organized but your personal office is overflowing with
paper. Don't worry— there is still hope. You can
eliminate a lot of paper—before it arrives! Junk
mail is one of the invisible time thieves: part of our
daily life that steals our time a little bit at a time,
with no real payoff. The articles in this section will
assist you in setting up workable systems for your home
and personal life. I’ll also suggest software to
make it easier for you to computerize your finances. The
important thing is to keep it so simple you’ll actually
use the new systems!
Includes Tips
Articles "Getting off the Junk Mail Treadmill," "Tax-Time
Tune-Up," and "Avoiding ID Theft and Credit Fraud." |
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Section 6: Optimizing Your Office
According to the Steelcase
Workplace Index Survey of 2000, American office workers
spend an average of 20 minutes per day organizing their
work spaces. To me that suggests that they don't yet have
a system that works for them. Remember, by defining and
labeling your space, you're more likely to put things
in the right place the first time! In this section of
the book, we're going to put it all together to create
a better office for you. You'll see Info Zones and paper
management in action, and examples of ways to apply my
tips whether your office is in a corporate high-rise or
at home.
Includes "Design
Your Ideal Office" and "Office Shopping List" Exercises. |
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Section 7: Managing Your Activities
and TIme
This section is about
Activity management, not time management. Can you actually
edit or alter time? Can you push one day from this week
in which you have few appointments into next week when
you are overbooked? Can you make a day with more than
24 hours in it? The point is that you cannot manage time.
"What can you really manage?" The answers boil down to
the four secrets of real time management: 1) Environment,
2) Resources and 3) Information. Finally, our Activities:
when, how and where we choose to do what for whom.
Includes Tips
Articles "Calendars & Scheduling," "Shorter Meetings=Better
Results," and "Terminate Telephone Tag" |
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