Personal Productivity

Learn to Say No: Increase the Power of How You Spend Your Time

How many of us aren’t very good at saying no? I know I often find myself doing things that I don’t really want to do but I say yes from a misguided sense of not wanting to let people down!
Saying no more often is definitely a great way to keep more of your time for the stuff that you need to do, which leads to more time to do what you want to do (to ‘Live More’).
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Learn to Say No: Increase the Power of How You Spend Your Time

Personal Productivity

Do You Know How to Use Your Technology to Best Effect?

I’ve just left an Engage for Success Social Engagement Sub Group meeting (must come up with a shorter title!) and a topic I kept coming back to was about having work flows and processes to get things done in the smoothest, most efficient way, so they happen. But that, of course, relies on people knowing how to use the technology properly in the first place.
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Do You Know How to Use Your Technology to Best Effect?

Personal Productivity

Managing Your Emails to Reduce the Overwhelm and Free Up More Time

I can remember a time when we didn’t have email. Yes, I am that old! We now seem to be suffering from email overwhelm everywhere we turn; at work, on our phones and at home.
Email can be a great timesaver and can help to get things done much more quickly than in the past. You can use it to help you to be organised and get more work done but if you’re not managing your emails properly it can also take up far too much of your time.
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Managing Your Emails to Reduce the Overwhelm and Free Up More Time

Personal Productivity

Getting Started with Evernote

Evernote is one of the tools that I use every day on all of my devices.
It is a place to keep your notes, articles, images, recipes, scans, sounds, to do lists, video (and the list goes on!) organised into notes and notebooks with tags to make it easy to find anything at any time.
It syncs across all your devices from your smartphone to your tablet to your computer, which means you have your notes available everywhere
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Getting Started with Evernote

Personal Productivity

Scanning and Storing Business Cards Using Evernote

As I go through my days I often do something and think ‘I must make a note of that tip to share’ and then, as I haven’t worked out a process for it, yet, I don’t! After thinking it yet again this morning I’m going to blog about today’s tip to give me some incentive to create that process!
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Scanning and Storing Business Cards Using Evernote

Personal Productivity

Tools for Productivity, Organisation and to Simplify Things!

We’re into the second full week of the year and we’re still in the thick of ‘new year, new you’ articles online whether that be around your health, weight, detoxing, habits, productivity, business and the list goes on!
I’ve never been one for New Year’s resolutions as such but I do like the ‘turning over a new leaf-ness’ (did I just make that up?!) of January, as I do with ‘back to school’ September.
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Tools for Productivity, Organisation and to Simplify Things!

Personal Productivity

Amazing What You Can Do In Limited Time

I’m off to Exeter today to observe a training course that I’m hoping to be running in the not too distant future.
I had intended getting an earlier train so that I could combine dropping my daughter off at school with a lift from my husband but this morning I realised I had too much to do for that!
That’s where it’s handy to live next door to one’s in-laws!
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Amazing What You Can Do In Limited Time