Take Control of Your Email Inbox
Do you have an effective way to process and organize your
email so that you can get to an empty Inbox on a routine basis? If you
have lots of email in your Inbox (we know people with as many as 7,000
messages), you might want to rethink your processing methods. Really,
it is possible to empty your Inbox. The key is to evaluate how you are
processing and organizing your email and then make some
changes. Adhere to these simple steps:
1. Set up a simple and effective email reference system
2. Schedule uninterrupted time to process and organize email
3. Process one item at a time, starting at the top
4. Use the "Four D's for Decision-Making" model
5 Beliefs That Limit Productivity
When I work with people in my business productivity practice,
the first question I ask them is, "What's stopping you from being more
productive?" The answers that keep coming up are pretty much the same
from everyone.
1. There's too much information coming at me too fast
2. I have to keep everything
3. Organization cramps my freedom and creativity
4. There's not enough time in the day!
5. It takes too much time to become productive
In this article, we'll take a look at these beliefs one by one, and see how you can turn them around.
Read more.
5 Ways to Speed up your Computer
We are always looking for ways our clients can help themselves
with their technology. PC performance is one area where you can
do some things for yourself that may avoid a service call. Give
these 5 things a try. Of course, we are always there to help if
you want!
1. Free up disk space
2. 'Rearrange' your disk space to be more efficient (disk fragmentation)
3. Detect and repare disk errors
4. Protect agains spyware (Careful! Some spyware prevention software can actually slow you down!)
5. Add Memory (one of my personal favorites) - in the article
mentioned above, they discuss a feature called ready-boost, which is
available in Vista and Windows7.
Details on the following suggestions can be found in the
article. |
