Best Of Organize IT: September 2008

October 3rd 2008   Featured Content   0 comments

Below are the most popular posts from September. As usual, if you missed any of these posts please check them out, and leave a comment. There was quite a broad range of topics covered this month, ranging from life advice for students to covering the first steps of an healthy lifestyle. Do you like the variety or would you prefer more focus on particular subjects? Let me know your thoughts!

• Introducing My New And Improved Weekly Planner!
• How To Deal With The Obstacles In Your Life: Part 1
• How To Deal With The Obstacles In Your Life: Part 2
• Self-Help Myths: There Is Never Enough Time In The Day
• Productivity Tip #08: Streamline Your Productivity System
• Productivity Tip #09: The Hard Landscape
• The 5 Simplest Healthy Habits You Will Ever Learn
• 4 Tips For Students That Will Set You Up For Life

The Art Of Time Management: How To Be Effective

October 1st 2008   Productivity   7 comments

When it comes to good time management you need to learn to be two things – effective and efficient. In basic terms that means you have to be able to pick out the right tasks and then do them in the most economical way. In this two part series I want to look at both approaches and discuss my own experiences of how I achieve them. Firstly I will look at how to be effective. It’s important to understand how significant this stage is. It’s pointless working on something efficiently if you don’t need to do it in the first place.

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Self-Help Myths: There Is Never Enough Time In The Day

September 29th 2008   Self-Help Myths   8 comments

“I never have enough time!” I bet you’ve heard people say that often. It’s quite likely that if you are reading this blog you will also have said it plenty of times too, and you want to do something about it. When I was in my getting (any) thing done stage several years ago I often felt the same way. Then I spent several months out of work and I suddenly had so much time I didn’t know what to do with it. This made me rethink my views on those precious hours constantly ticking away…

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Inspirational Quotes: Denis Waitley, Patrick Riley

September 26th 2008   Miscellaneous   1 comment

Inspirational quotes for 26th September 2008.

Patrick Riley: “When you’re playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor”

Picabo Street: “When someone tells me the is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, I’m gonna prove you wrong.”

Greg LeMond: “Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.”

Denis Waitley: “The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.”

Introducing My New And Improved Weekly Planner!

September 24th 2008   News & Updates   16 comments

For the last several months my productivity system (system is an ugly word right now but we all still need one) has revolved around two simple tools; a notepad and my weekly planner. The latter has evolved and been simplified to the point where I feel it is ideal for my purposes. With this in mind I thought now would be a great opportunity to make it available to you all. You can download it as a PDF.

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