January 26, 2009
Something to really smile about.
Did you know you can recycle toothpaste tubes? Even with all the sticky paste inside, you can recycle aluminum tubes (put them with your aluminum cans), but not plastic ones. So be sure to buy toothpaste packaged in aluminum tubes!!
January 22, 2009
No More Unwanted Catalogs
Go here to opt out of receiving catalogs through the mail that you don't want. I signed up some time ago and totally forgot about it. Today I received an email confirmation from Land's End saying my name had been removed from their catalog mailing list!
January 8, 2009
What is Clutter?
"Getting organized at home will ensure that you make the most of what you have. At work, managing your time and priorities will enable you to provide more value and be happier," says Organizing Professional, Julie Morgenstern. Julie has been in the organizing business for 20 years, having written several books about de-cluttering. Her ideas are about common sense evaluation of why we hang on to our stuff. Here is her definition of clutter:
"A Zen parable tells of a wanderer on a lonely road who came upon a torrential river that had washed out the bridge. So he built a solid and heavy raft, which carried him safely across to the other bank. 'This is a good raft,' he thought. 'If there's another river ahead, I can use it.' And he carried it for the rest of his life. How often do we hang onto things that served us well at one point in our lives but are no longer relevant or useful? Clutter is something that no longer serves you."
January is a great time to evaluate life's priorities, make resolutions, and most importantly, move into action. Kessler Simple Solutions will coach you through your action plan and enable you to meet your resolutions for a simplier, less cluttered home or office.
"A Zen parable tells of a wanderer on a lonely road who came upon a torrential river that had washed out the bridge. So he built a solid and heavy raft, which carried him safely across to the other bank. 'This is a good raft,' he thought. 'If there's another river ahead, I can use it.' And he carried it for the rest of his life. How often do we hang onto things that served us well at one point in our lives but are no longer relevant or useful? Clutter is something that no longer serves you."
January is a great time to evaluate life's priorities, make resolutions, and most importantly, move into action. Kessler Simple Solutions will coach you through your action plan and enable you to meet your resolutions for a simplier, less cluttered home or office.
January 7, 2009
Email Clutter
Tips for organizing your e-mail.
The following steps when practiced daily will help you keep your inbox organized and clutter free. Just a bit of discipline is all it will take to reduce your time dealing with emails and will free you up to respond to emails.
1. Use your DELETE button!!! If you do not recognize the sender or the SUBJECT field is alpha-numeric gibberish or makes no sense, do not open but delete the email.
2. Filter you mail by setting up email folders. Filters, or Rules as they are called in Outlook, allow you to organize as you download your email.
3. Use your filters or rules to send certain emails directly to the trash. No more offensive emails!
4. For the “orphaned” emails that have no where to go – if needed, stop right there and make a folder and set up a filter, or rule, to accommodate any future emails.
5. Read and delete any email that doesn’t have content worth keeping for future reference. Then empty your trash daily.
6. While reading your email, prioritize when you want to address them. Most email programs allow you to label email by color as you read them. For example, red is for urgent response, blue for later, and yellow for maybe. At a glance you will know which email you have to address and which can wait until later.
7. Empty your trash daily but be sure to quickly review the trash in case your filters inadvertently pickup up on some terms that were included in an email that you may not want to trash.
8. Create a folder called “follow-up”, “interesting”, or “to do”. This is where you will move an email that peaks your interest but you don’t have time to read the details. Later you can take the time to check into the emails worth keeping. Once you review them, either send them to another folder for keeps or send them to the trash.
9. Clear you inbox each day to avoid email backup. Move email to trash, a specific folder or your “to do” folder, and then empty your trash. If an email is older than 90 days in your “to do” folder, send it to the trash as the information or offer is more than likely out of date.
10. Have as many folders as you like and call them whatever will intuitively work for you at a glance. This is your system so make sure it works for you.
The following steps when practiced daily will help you keep your inbox organized and clutter free. Just a bit of discipline is all it will take to reduce your time dealing with emails and will free you up to respond to emails.
1. Use your DELETE button!!! If you do not recognize the sender or the SUBJECT field is alpha-numeric gibberish or makes no sense, do not open but delete the email.
2. Filter you mail by setting up email folders. Filters, or Rules as they are called in Outlook, allow you to organize as you download your email.
3. Use your filters or rules to send certain emails directly to the trash. No more offensive emails!
4. For the “orphaned” emails that have no where to go – if needed, stop right there and make a folder and set up a filter, or rule, to accommodate any future emails.
5. Read and delete any email that doesn’t have content worth keeping for future reference. Then empty your trash daily.
6. While reading your email, prioritize when you want to address them. Most email programs allow you to label email by color as you read them. For example, red is for urgent response, blue for later, and yellow for maybe. At a glance you will know which email you have to address and which can wait until later.
7. Empty your trash daily but be sure to quickly review the trash in case your filters inadvertently pickup up on some terms that were included in an email that you may not want to trash.
8. Create a folder called “follow-up”, “interesting”, or “to do”. This is where you will move an email that peaks your interest but you don’t have time to read the details. Later you can take the time to check into the emails worth keeping. Once you review them, either send them to another folder for keeps or send them to the trash.
9. Clear you inbox each day to avoid email backup. Move email to trash, a specific folder or your “to do” folder, and then empty your trash. If an email is older than 90 days in your “to do” folder, send it to the trash as the information or offer is more than likely out of date.
10. Have as many folders as you like and call them whatever will intuitively work for you at a glance. This is your system so make sure it works for you.
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