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Productivity and Frogs- What Do They Have in Common?

An important aspect of productivity is being smart with your time. What Can You Do? Many times being productive depends on how you start your day. All too often our delays are because of avoidance. As suggested by Twain, when we tackle the big frog first, we can stop avoiding the difficult things, therefore allowing productivity to increase. I know this sounds easy in theory, but the reality is frogs are nasty! Chances are the task you have been avoiding...

This is my new home – I’m here to stay

Welcome OK, so the picture isn’t my new home, but I thought it was a great picture of my favorite style of home. You should go check out this photographer’s other work as he has an albums full of nothing but Craftsman style homes and other architecture. This is simply my new home on the internet! The Back Story It’s time for me to get back to blogging. I really missed blogging and haven’t been consistent since I completely messed up our...

Weekly paperwork

Ok, I know it has been a while since I posted and I apologize for that. I certainly want to finish this series and I already have my eyes on the next one… tackling magazines! Ok, let me do a very quick recap.1) take the monthly folder (ie October) and remove paperwork2) sort paperwork into the proper weekly folder (think due dates on bills and paperwork for appts) In the case of October there are five weeks.3) each Monday i...

Answers to Your Paperwork Questions

I’m going to answer your questions here regarding your paperwork questions.  Any new Questions will be updated and posted at the top.Updated 10/10/121) I loooooove Evernote. But it never occurred to me to use it for this purpose! I just tested taking a pic of a doc with my phone in Evernote and it worked! The text in the picture WAS searchable. This method is much more likely for me to actually implement because I have a serious procrastination problem...

How to Conquer Your Paperwork…

How to Conquer Your Paperwork...

…so that your paperwork doesn’t conquer you. I wish I had taken pics when I began this journey at the end of July.  I have a very large dining room table and it was completely covered in paperwork.  I had so much paperwork I was completely paralyzed.  Think complete and total mental and emotional meltdown paralyzing. So here are the steps I took to conquer my paperwork. Paperwork System First, I purchased cute file folders.  Some that made me smile...