Organizing for Success
 
11 Tips for Traveling Smart
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  1. Plan and organize early: Reserve your car rental and hotel room well in advance. Preplanning reduces the stress if unexpected glitches happen.
  2. Call in advance: Phone the hotel at least 1 week ahead of time to find out what amenities are available like having hair dryer, laundry facilities or an exercise room.] Packing--use the 50% rule:  Try to pick out outfits that you can mix and match, so you can wear each outfit at least twice.

 
How to Improve on Your Goal Setting Skills
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Life is the most fantastic journey in the universe, where you are or where you want to be. You can choose your own destination. And only then can choose how you are going to get there. Goal setting will help you end up where you want to be. Those people with dreams are the ones most likely to experience them. Here’s a list of 15 goal setting skills.

 
6 Clean Desk Secrets
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  1. 90% of clutter comes from indecisions and putting off action creating “piles instead of files,” as well as not having the right organizing tools and equipment to make life easier in getting and “staying organized.”
  2. Maximizing your space. It's important that you arrange your furniture so everything can be within your reach. If it's not, and you have to get up and cross the room to put things away, you won't do it because it causes a distraction with the work at hand; and therefore, you start creating piles of clutter taking up your valuable work space, where you need to process your current project. To be efficient and effective, remember this rule, “Things you use the most, should be within your arm’s reach."

 
Is Multitasking Good or Bad?
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We have so many hours in the day, and we tend to think we can get everything done that we planned to do, right? Not always, so we multitask some things in order to catch up. But can it be a costly mistake to multitask most of the time? So let's discuss, whether it's good or bad, to do more than one thing at a time. Multitasking is a symptom of prioritizing things in the wrong order-

 
Can Organizing Really Make You Smarter?
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According to Lawrence C. Katz, co-author of "Keep Your Brain Alive," and Pierce J. Howard, author of "The Owner's Manual for the Brain," both state that by doing something every day, will keep your brain cells active and alive. So I guess, exercising our brain by organizing every day, isn't as bad as we may think. Therefore, it's important to remember that you need to exercise your body as well to relieve the stress, so you can work more efficiently and effectively. When the body is exercised, the brain can function better and faster.
 
Are You a Paper Junkie?
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Are you disorganized (just don’t make the time to get organized), chronically disorganized (where all self-help methods have failed in getting organized yourself), a packrat (collector of miscellaneous items), or even a hoarder (similar to a packrat, but keeps everything)? Or are you a person who is a “caretaker” type person who needs to come to the rescue of everyone, so you keep things “just in case”? 

 
5 Tips for Organizing Your Wallet
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We’ll start by organizing your wallet by emptying everything out onto a cleared off surface area--do this weekly if not, monthly. You’ll be surprised what you find.

 
The Christmas Countdown
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Set timeframes for all your actions and schedule everything into your planner. This is vital, otherwise you’ll end up keeping yourself busy and before you know it, all your good intentions will have fallen by the wayside and Christmas will be only a few days away. 

 
7 Ways to Finally Organize Your Errands
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Get gas for the car. Cash your paycheck at the bank. Pick up milk, bread and fruit. Drop off the dry cleaning. Get stamps and mail a package at the post office. Stop by your friend’s place to drop off something that she had left at your house. Whew! Before you know it, the entire morning is gone. And then you ask yourself, "Where did the time go?" You still have to run errands, so let's explore some simple ways to get everything done, and still not get stressed out by planning your day and writing things down as soon as you remember them. 

 

Evelyn Gray