Posts Tagged ‘Planning’
Productivity Tips – Extreme Heat and Mental Health
A couple of weeks ago I listened to an interview about extreme heat and mental health. Hopefully it’s been cooling down where you are, but in my neck of the woods, we’re still at 105 degrees daily! When this segment about “extreme heat and mental health” was first teased, it got me to thinking…
Read MoreTechniques for Prioritizing Work Tasks and Time Management
In Part 1, we discussed the definition of what a priority is and why determining priorities is vital to time management. In Part 2, we looked at the benefits of determining your priorities. In Part 3, I shared the method for how to set priorities in your personal life. Now, let’s cover: Techniques for Prioritizing…
Read MoreTips for Catching Up with Saving Your CEU Certificates
A few weeks ago, I shared my recommendations for why you should save your CEU certificates plus best practices for saving your proof of attendance. Since then, several people have asked: How can we quickly get caught up saving our CEU certificates if we’ve never done this before? Great question! After all, you most likely…
Read MoreTravel Planning Tips for Summer 2023
When my husband and I initially started our travel planning last year for our summer 2023 travel, COVID-19 was still a part of the landscape. While COVID is still a concern for those at higher risk and when traveling to countries where it remains an issue, what travel planning has evolved into is planning around…
Read MoreProductivity Boost – How to Maintain Focus
A number of clients begin their first session with me by venting about all of the different people or situations that interrupt them throughout the day. I hear this quite often: “If I didn’t have to work with people, I’d get so much more done!” Sound familiar? For one of their first assignments, I ask…
Read MoreIs the Facebook Settlement Legit?
If you’ve been reading my blogs for a while, you know that I’m vigilant about proactive cybersecurity. You’ll save time, stress and resources if you can avoid any fraud, scams and hacks. I’ve discussed Facebook’s (now Meta’s) multitude of privacy breaches, and I advise my clients not to utilize Facebook Messenger. I removed that app…
Read MoreHow Working Through Your Breaks Can Affect Your Health
Have you ever considered how working through your breaks can affect your health in very bad ways? Let’s look at a sample scenario. Have you ever worked at your desk or workstation for the entire day? You meant to get up for breaks, but kept working. You weren’t that hungry, so you just snacked…
Read MoreProductivity Tips – Photo Organizing Resources
It can become overwhelming when you’re trying to figure out where to even start searching for photo organizing resources. The list below will give you a springboard to figure out what direction you might want to take with your photo organizing project. In last week’s post, I shared five considerations for getting started with…
Read MoreTravel Lessons Learned from Southwest Airlines Holiday Debacle
Unless you cut yourself off from society for the last two weeks of 2022 and first week of 2023, you’ve already heard plenty about the Southwest Airlines meltdown over the 2022 holidays. One million people were affected by their delays and cancellations. My husband and I were two of them. We were able to…
Read MoreHow to Achieve Your Goals
Whether you call them goals, objectives, missions or New Year’s Resolutions, they all describe the same thing: accomplishing an achievement you’ve identified and seek. Or, as Oxford puts it: “the object of a person’s ambition or effort; an aim or desired result” To make your vision a reality, here are four basic principles…
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