Posts Tagged ‘Planning’
How 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…
Read MoreTime Blocking Weekly Planner – an Example
One of my coaching clients asked me what my time blocking and planning look like. It’s one thing to hear about best (and worst) practices, talk through implementation, and practice what you think it looks like. It’s another thing to actually watch someone else do it and monitor the progress. Rather than have him…
Read MoreIs Travel Insurance Worth It?
Many moons ago, I used to be dead set against travel insurance. I thought it was a waste of money until about five years ago. I blogged about that mind shift here: Travel Insurance Part 1 Travel Insurance Part 2 About three years ago, I discovered annual travel insurance plans from Allianz. I’d been…
Read MoreHow to Make Meetings More Productive
A common complaint I hear from clients and workshop participants is how much time their meetings waste. The biggest mistake meeting organizers often make is not deciding on “the why” behind a meeting. In this video, I discuss with the creator of Meeting for Goals software, Hadi Ossaily, the key components for making meetings…
Read MoreNational Preparedness Month
Every September in the United States, National Preparedness Month is promoted. This month-long reminder about getting prepared for all emergencies was created by FEMA back in 2004. That agency’s reputation seems to take quite a beating after major disasters, but their website, Ready.gov, has extremely helpful recommendations to help you prepare for various emergencies:…
Read MoreConsiderations for Back to School Schedules – Productivity Tips
Whether you have school-age children or not, there are scheduling factors to take into consideration with the start of the upcoming school year just around the corner. In the past, I shared these back-to-school considerations and recommendations later in August, but given that more and more school districts are starting much earlier than the once-traditional…
Read MoreFinish 2022 Successfully – with Strategic Planning
In each month’s time management tips e-newsletter that I create for my list, I include holidays to be aware of for the upcoming three months. As I typed up my July newsletter draft, I opened up the October section of my calendar. That’s right. October! The end of the year will be here…
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