I am not that big on reading magazines, but my favorite one–which I never let the subscription run out on–is Self. Its full of great articles, personal stories, recipes, exercise, beauty tips, and more, yet never goes too heavy on the celebs or the hokey stuff. Just realistic, down-to-earth information. Every year, they do a
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Last year, we went through a series of daily challenges to create your vision board. If you made one, where is it now? Do you have it prominently located somewhere, or is it just sitting in a drawer? Do you change it often as your goals evolve and advance? For starters, if you haven’t already
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Happy Monday and Welcome Back! Last week you got yourself a system in place for organizing all your tasks, contacts, and events. Now it’s time to learn how to use it on a daily basis. Your mission for today–and for the whole week–is to get used to the practice of dealing with things that come
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How many times have you sat down to make a phone call or send a email and not been able to find the phone number? If someone asks you for a friend’s address do you go into a panic because you have no idea where your address book is or where the little piece of
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Yesterday you created your calendar. Today it’s task time! Now, depending on the format of your organizer- be it a bound planner, binder, Outlook, PDA, or whatever tool you chose as the right one for your lifestyle- things will look a little different, but the same principles apply. Your task list should not only keep
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Welcome back! Did you have fun shopping for and/or getting to know your new best friend? If that questions made you feel a little lost, you must not have done Friday’s challenge of picking the time and task management planning tool that is right for you. It’s not too late to get started! Click here
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Your challenge for this weekend is to put some thought into how you want to keep your tasks and appointments organized. Since next week, we’ll be going through your current system and starting to streamline things, you’ll need to know what format works best for you. For next week’s challenges, you will need one primary,
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Next week you’ll be going through a process to organize your current tasks, project, files, etc- but even more importantly, we’ll go through a system to tackle things AS SOON AS THEY COME THROUGH THE DOOR. Procrastination- whether in the form of a stack of mail that needs to be gone through, doing a quick
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Yesterday, you wrote down a quick synopsis of what your current system of time management was. When things are not running smoothly, most likely the problem is that things are not automatic. When you go through the day trying to remember what needs to be done and attempting to squeeze as much as you can
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To start off this month and it’s focus on Time Management and Tracking, let’s take some time today to prepare for a great month and also to take a good, hard look at the system (or lack thereof) that you are currently using. By the end of the day, work through these important steps to
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