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Calendar for February 2008
Feb. 4: Peace of Mind
organizing consultant Wendy Liebman's Birthday. Happy Birthday
Wendy!!!!
Peace of Mind branches out
into Portland to work with clients
Feb. 8 - 10: Bend Winter
Fest - 2/8/2008 TO 2/10/2008
LibertyBank Bend WinterFest
will be held on February 8,9 and 10, 2008 in Downtown Bend across
from the Library. This full scale community event will include the
WinterFest Marketplace, made up of local artists, crafters and
gourmet food purveyors. There will be live music, a children’s area,
snowboard and ski rail competition, a cross country ski event, a
winter wine walk downtown as well as great food and much more. Most
events will take place in the event center downtown, plus additional
events will be held at the 7th Mountain Resort
Feb: 29: Peace of Mind
presentation at local consignment shop – Stone Soup. Contact wendy@peaceofmindbend.com
for more information
April 22, 2008 8 a.m. - noon: COCC offers “Organizing your
office” Spring Term
Useful Links: Central
Oregon Family News Bend Chamber of
Commerce Calendar
Redmond Chamber of Commerce Calendar
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Get Organized in 2008!
The year started off with a
bang as Peace of Mind was asked to speak at the Chamber’s
Professional Development Series on January 8th. I had so much fun
with the group. The participants were real troopers. The snow was 8
inches thick and coming down nonstop and we still had a great turn
out.
Aimee has been working so hard
calling all of Peace of Mind’s clients and partners to see if you’d
like to be a part of our newsletter. I am able to view the email list
and I am so thrilled to see so many names that I recognize. Please
send me an email and let me know what you are up to and if there is a
way that Peace of Mind can help to promote your business.
POM Prescription for February:
Office Organization
P - Peace of Mind
Prescription for Space Organization
P - Pull everythig out and define the
space
E - Evaluate and classify
A - Action keep here keep elsewhere donate toss
C - Contain and display
E - Everything has a home
E
- Evaluate
and classify priorities
Take out a piece of paper and create these categories
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Personal
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Home/Family
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Work
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Other
List all of the tasks that you are responsible for
under each category. Often, people are overwhelmed by the amount of
commitments that they have. They really don’t know why they are
always busy, but they seem frazzled and can’t seem to catch up. STOP.
LIST TASKS. PRIORITIZE by underlining what you love and what is
important to you. Then look at all of the items that are left. Decide
to DELETE, DELAY, OR DELEGATE the left over tasks. YOU DON”T HAVE TO
DO IT ALL!!!!
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A
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Action:
Eliminate unnecessary paper and create a method for easy retrieval of
paper
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Set boundaries as to
what you let into your space.
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Remove yourself from
mailing lists, catalogs, etc.
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Create Action and
Reference Files for your piles
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yourself from unwanted solicitors”
C
- Calendar and Time
Management
Decide on the calendar system that works best for you
and stick to it. There are a variety of successful tools available.
It is very important to have one active calendar. More than one
calendar will result in missed appointments, double scheduling, and
wasted time. Schedule time daily to attend to your action files. You
will never have enough time during the day to accomplish all the
things that you have on your list so be realistic. I once read that a
person would need 42 hours a day to do everything that they “should”
do in a day. Go back to your priority list and decide where to plug
in the things that you love and keep it balanced with the things that
you need to do. Remember to schedule in time for yourself.
E -
Establish systems
and routines to maintain order and increase productivity
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Be proactive with your day, not reactive “Putting out fires”
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Do the least desirable thing first for 15-20 a day and before you know
it, you will accomplish the undesirable task
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Decide when you are going to check email and phone messages and set the
boundary
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Divide your office into zones and assign a task to each day of the week
to maintain order
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