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    Archive for 2008/09


    Pandora Radio keeping me company

    Lately I’m been enjoying online tunes through Pandora Radio. An old school techie, Jay Coley, President of Editware who began his computing days with punch cards for memory (?!!?!? dinosaur days!) turned me on to this site. You type in some group you like and it finds music that’s similar to it. Basically, you can [...]

    The Simplifier #73 is Online

    The seventy-third issue of the Project Simplify newsletter The Simplifier is now archived on our newsletter archives page. Here is a brief summary of the contents: 1. A Note From Shawn Chargin’ women doing awesome stuff 2. Our Featured Quote by Suze Orman 3. Interview: Gayle Greco – Creating a Healthy Business by PS Head [...]

    Fall 2008 Organizing Special

    Also known as the popular “thank-goodness-it’s-no-longer-105-degrees-fall-organize-your-office special”, this offer will do a wham-bam-alakazam job on your office. By the time we are done, you’ll have a cleared off desk, your foundation containers set-up (Easy Access Station, reference binder, etc) and “defined”, a maintenance system, and a file map to whip your files into shape. On-site: [...]

    Workshop stories

    Last week I did a workshop covering the Natural Professional foundation. I was fortunate to have an engaged, responsive group. One of the things I wondered about afterward was the feasibility of dividing a group, OR offering two different versions: one for the lefty brains and one for the righty brains. My concern was that [...]

    Trying to Contain Your Enthusiasms

    This article was originally published in The Simplifier #72. — Article: Trying to Contain Your Enthusiams By Shawn Tuttle It’s back-to-school time and kids are getting supplies for the new year. Have you, too, been picking up organizing supplies for an office that “slipped away” over the summer? Perhaps you’ve been hoarding creatively-labeled files, containers [...]

    2 Minute timers

    A couple of years ago, David Allen (of Getting Things Done fame) offered a 2 minute timer to assist people in sticking with the 2 minute rule when processing their inbox. He charges $10 for this which was $10 more than many bloggers and programmers were willing to pay for what is, apparently to them, [...]

    Project brain dumping

    Here’s a sweet gem from a fellow mobile worker (I hadn’t seem him there before) at the cafe today. He saw me brainstorming with pen and large piece of paper and he said: “I did that recently for a project. I had all this info about it in my head. I was working with a [...]


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