16th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Could you use more peace in your life? What about more positivity? How about productivity – any need for that? Then think about putting “pockets” in your life. 
First, let me explain the pocket concept and how it came together for me.
About this time last year, because there was a lot of football being watched »
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15th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites.”
~Richard Garriott, computer-game developer
You’ve heard it-and maybe even said it: “I know where everything is….it just looks messy.” Chaos in your work space (or home space) is not reasonable, sensible, or productive. Those who believe that they are organized, efficient, and highly effective when they live and/or work »
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14th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Do you ever run around like a chicken with your head cut off? Or maybe you would describe your behavior as acting like your hair is on fire? Either way, it’s not a good look!
If you use consciously and deliberately put in “pockets,” that is, the special protected spaces that give your room to breathe, »
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11th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Let us say that you have decided to close the door to negative people (figuratively, of course). What is tough about this decision is that sometimes the negative people work in our offices (or live in our homes or are related to us in some way). Deciding to “close the door” on the people who »
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9th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Do you sometimes wish that things were different for you? Have you often thought of, “If only…”? What if you combined those two ideas – and turned them into actions you could take?
Let us start with you making your own list of things that you would like to be different. It might be relationships you »
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8th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Human beings are dreadful at estimating how long something is going to take. And, we are not good at estimating how long something actually took us to do.
There are really only two ways to know how long you spend in a given week doing the myriad tasks that make up your life.
Hire someone to follow »
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4th April, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Do you have a planner? Does it include a calendar, i.e., both daily and weekly (or monthly)? Although most people think that a calendar is the heart of a planner, I still had to ask the question.
Now, if you don’t have a planner, go get one and be sure it has all four of these »
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31st March, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Everyone in business talks about delegating and unfortunately, very few are good at it. You can immediately increase your effectiveness as a delegator by integrating these tips into your repertoire.
Delegate selectively. First, you have to consider whether a particular task even needs to be done at all. If so, you then have to determine who »
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29th March, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Delegating is an essential part of being productive both at home and at work. There are certainly tasks that I am sure you have done where you asked yourself: “Did I earn a master’s degree to qualify me to stuff these envelopes?” Other times, you wonder, ‘Hmmm….why am I doing this when a machine can »
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25th March, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Multi-tasking is a hot topic and one that is misunderstood. Our society and the pace of our lives encourage the concept of multi-tasking.
What is misunderstood is that often multi-tasking makes us less productive rather than more productive. Our brains do not switch well between tasks and in fact, are unable to do two tasks that »
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