HeyJaredGet Organized! by Dr. Frank Buck
Most people are overwhelmed by the amount of paper and digital information in their lives. You don't have to be one of them. If you want to get organized and make it look easy, this is the place for you.
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Communication: Is It Focused or Fragmented? (opens the original)
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Communication today is easy. With one quick e-mail or one quick phone call, we can transfer the thought in our heads to the other person. Is that a good thing—or a bad thing—or both?To fully answer the question, look at the scenario from the receiving end. How many e-mails are you getting during the course of a day? How fragmented do you feel as the result of re-focusing your attention from one topic to the next? How truly significant are those e-mails?If the sender had to wait a day before send
College Students: How to Take Great Notes (opens the original)
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In colleges across the country, a new academic year is beginning. In some ways, it will be a different year from any we have experienced. Yet, in other ways, students will face the same challenges I did as a freshman decades ago.Professors will give lectures and students will be tested on their mastery of the material. The difference between an “A” and an “F” is often a good set of notes from which to study. What you’re about to hear isn’t a rehash of the Cornell Method or using special paper or
Clear Your Desk: The Magic of the Tickler File (opens the original)
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When I run into people who attended one of my workshops, of all of the ideas we covered, the one that seems to be the favorite is the tickler file. For me, it is the tool that has allowed me to work with a clean desktop and a clear head for about 40 years.Wouldn’t it be great if all of the papers that sit on your desk would go away and magically come back exactly when you need them? That is exactly what tickler files do for you. A set of tickler files consists of 43 folders. The first 31 are num
Lost in Spam: How to Stop Being This Guy (opens the original)
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“I didn’t get that email.” Do you find yourself saying that to others when they follow up on communication? It’s an awkward situation.“Check your spam folder and see if it’s there,” you are told. Now, awkwardness turns to embarrassment when you find you did receive that important email. It just somehow wound up in spam among the various offers for bargain vacations and pleas for help for a Nigerian princess.Spam filters are great when they work the way you want them to. They keep your
Just Show Up: One Key to School Success (opens the original)
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When the buses roll and the bells rings, the question in the mind of every parents and student is, “Will this school year be one filled with success or frustration?” One simple element is key to answering the question of school success.Every year about now, I think of my friend Jack McDougal. Jack and I taught at the same middle school and our lunch periods coincided. Over lunch one day, the typical time we solved the problems of the world, I remember him saying, “Any student who really wants to
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