The surprise of having to relearn a familiar task
This morning when I left the house I had to relearn how to drive, which as you can imagine was a surprise at 7am. I am currently away with work as I am presenting at a two day exhibition. I’m …
This morning when I left the house I had to relearn how to drive, which as you can imagine was a surprise at 7am. I am currently away with work as I am presenting at a two day exhibition. I’m …
In the process of developing my organiser I have learnt a lot from other people’s systems, from around the world. However there has been one problem with this globalisation and it is …
Repeating tasks are important as they are frequently the small tasks that help make our lives run smoothly, e.g. reviewing project finances, tidying the house and phoning friends. However, they are …
As I mentioned in the August Wheel of Life post, I have made progress on identifying my goals by completing the first exercise of the Goal Setting College tutorial. The exercise asks you to look back …
It is about time I finished writing about the remaining sections of my organiser. However, I have been procrastinating on this because I don’t find the remaining sections as exciting as the …
I’ve now had my Blackberry 8800 for over two months and I’ve been pleasantly surprised how useful I am finding it. Here are six of the ways I’ve used it to help my productivity. …
I am very proud of my organisation system and will talk about it to anyone who will listen. I think the key to organisation is to develop your own system and believe the reason many people don’t …
Our choice of words, our choice of language, is vital for achieving brilliance How to be brilliant I am continuing to work through How to Be Brilliant and have just finished the section on positive …
When I first introduced the ideas from Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management all tasks that came in today were added to tomorrow’s list which meant I had a plan of action. However …
While looking for a book to take on a business trip, I noticed I had previously bought another book on goals, How to Be Brilliant by Michael Heppell and as I’d never read it I packed it. The …
I have been procrastinating on writing this post because I haven’t wanted to think about how I would benefit from more exercise. In my post What is happiness? I listed exercise as one component …
After writing my earlier post I decided to take action straight away and looked at possible books to help me. I choose Work Life: Achieve Your Goals which arrived at the weekend. So far I have read …
The second section of my organiser is my ASAP list; these are all the actions that I could work on now and should be completed as soon as possible. Unfortunately because I’ve been following …
For the last few weeks I’ve felt overloaded at work with an ever increasing to do list which I wasn’t making much impact on. Instead of the usual 3 sheets of double sided A5 paper it had …
Work has kindly given me a Blackberry, so I can check my email when I’m out of the office. I am in the process of writing about my new organisation system which is really working for me so …
I have struggled previously with paper diaries because of changing appointments which get messy and then confusing to decipher; I have therefore stuck with electronic diaries for the past few years. …
Sometimes things work so neatly you can’t believe it. After five years, I was expecting to make my final student loan payment in March which would mean I had extra money to spend each month. In …
Okay, I’ve gone on now for four posts describing how my organiser came into being, but have not yet described what it consists of. That is going to change now as I work through each section and …
The second component of happiness I’m going to consider is attractiveness. I know there is little I can do about my features (without taking drastic action) but I know I can do more with what …
This is part two of my post on paper versus digital organisation, you can read part one here I previously owned a filofax at university which was pocket size so was great because it would fit into a …
I’ve chosen to consider how sleep affects my happiness first because I think it has the most obvious effect. You know when you’re tired everything will be just that little bit harder, …
The weekend is over and it is time to review what I have achieved while I’ve been home alone. I’ve broken the list into sections and coloured red everything which was on my to do list. It …
I like computers. I got my first computer in 1995 before going to university, when most of my friends thought I was mad not putting the money towards a car. I got my first pda in 2000 just after I …
The husband is away this weekend, sailing. I am, therefore, planning to get lots of things done from my to do list, as well as the chores such as food shopping and clothes washing. However I am …
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