January 22, 2009
Free Download of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - audiobook
Download this timeless classic here.
January 21, 2009
Outlook email to calendar tip
Have you ever received an email with the date and time of an event and wished it would have arrived as a calendar item? Well, one of my favorite tips with Outlook is the easy drag and drop feature turning an email message into a calendar invite. There is a simple screen shot of that here. Enjoy! Any other Outlook productivity tips?
January 20, 2009
Modeling Links
Over time I have collected a solid list of Excel tips and tricks websites. Some are better than others but all are worthy of a perusal to find what they have to offer.
Excel Add-Ins
Analytics / Excel Blog
Excel Modeling Help
Excel Charts
Enroll in daily Excel tips
More Excel Tips
Do you have any more to add?
Excel Add-Ins
Analytics / Excel Blog
Excel Modeling Help
Excel Charts
Enroll in daily Excel tips
More Excel Tips
Do you have any more to add?
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now." Emerson
I had the opportunity the other day to read a little of the new book Power of Less. The main messages from the book are around learning to set clear limitations; choosing the essential to maximize time and energy. Personally, I really liked the simple concepts as I can immediately look to apply them in my own life.
Therein I noted several pragmatic, applicable to-dos that are worth sharing:
- Set aside time just for batch tasks (ideally later in the day) -- batch tasks are phone calls, email maintenance, in-box processing, visiting websites, etc. Think of batch tasks being anything life "maintenance" related
- First thing in the morning, write down your three Most Important Tasks (MITs)
- Focus solely on those tasks; do not multi-task those items
- At your designated batch time, process your in-box to empty; do not use your in-box as a to-do list
- Only check your email 2-3 times a day; once in the morning, during lunch and then in the afternoon; turn off any desktop email notifications
- Stick to 3-7 sentence emails max
- Learn to say "no"
- Create a "To be Filed Folder" within your in-box
- When going through your email, process quickly, and either delete, file away, or respond
Do you have any general or otherwise productivity tips to share?
Therein I noted several pragmatic, applicable to-dos that are worth sharing:
- Set aside time just for batch tasks (ideally later in the day) -- batch tasks are phone calls, email maintenance, in-box processing, visiting websites, etc. Think of batch tasks being anything life "maintenance" related
- First thing in the morning, write down your three Most Important Tasks (MITs)
- Focus solely on those tasks; do not multi-task those items
- At your designated batch time, process your in-box to empty; do not use your in-box as a to-do list
- Only check your email 2-3 times a day; once in the morning, during lunch and then in the afternoon; turn off any desktop email notifications
- Stick to 3-7 sentence emails max
- Learn to say "no"
- Create a "To be Filed Folder" within your in-box
- When going through your email, process quickly, and either delete, file away, or respond
Do you have any general or otherwise productivity tips to share?
January 12, 2009
November 22, 2008
Words to Remember
We have to know the intent of opposition ... which wants us to become discouraged because when we are, we are weakened.
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