Are folders and filing systems worth fifteen to twenty-five minutes a day of contemplative classification and sort for serious managers? Obsessive Type As might insist hands-on organizational design is essential to getting a firm grasp on essential correspondence.
Not a single colleague or client I know would pick the former. Their personal productivity paradigms have shifted. Similarly, they want meeting invitations and schedules with embedded links that instantly trigger — and sync — commitments on their calendars. More accurately, their technologies exist to give them greater speed and flexibility. Organization has given way to improvisation. Siri offers a lovely honey-voiced example. But treat yourself to a nice memory box to store all those ticket stubs and sentimental knick-knacks and you can while away a pretty enjoyable hour or so down memory lane gathering things up.
We're all prone to losing - or smashing - our phone every now and again, and spilling tea on a laptop is a likely occurrence, too - just me? Set aside a few minutes a month to keep your devices backed up so that if you do experience an accident, you won't have lost anything that can't be replaced. Every time you receive an email or text from a company you no longer want to hear from, hit the unsubscribe button.
If you do it as and when you receive the messages, you'll soon get hassled less and less without having to embark on a huge inbox clean-up. Sometimes to save time, I'll get my lunch on the way in even though I don't know what I'll fancy.
It means I can use my lunch break to get other things done, and I'll never skip a meal because I'm too busy. The less time you have to spend cooking, the more time you could be spending organising your cupboards, cleaning, or you know, living your life.
I like to make big stir fries, salads or things like chilli and curry which can be easily eaten as leftovers during the week. How annoying is it to have to pay 5p for a bag every time you need to nip to the shop?
And how annoying is it to have reams of plastic bags in your kitchen cupboards using up space? Keep a small tote bag in your handbag for any emergency supermarket trips to stop you using so much plastic. You're ready to leave and have 2 minutes to make your train. Easy, right? Finding my coat, keys, packing a gym bag and locking everything up always takes longer than I think, especially when nothing is where it should be.
Prep an area by the front door where you can keep your bag, coat and everything that needs to go inside it, for a swift exit in the morning. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Britney's conservatorship has ended after 13 years. Paris' wedding dress is what dreams are made of. Meghan on the money saving trick she still uses.
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