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The Right Tools & Mindset For Success

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How to start your work day

Crowded desktop

Doomed from the start

You turn it on or wake it up every day. It has replaced your real desk top with a desktop full of icons representing folders, files and shortcuts to programs. I’m like you. I move my mouse and it wakes from its energy saving slumber. It greets me with a picture of my children, a dock leading me to programs I use most and items that I have deemed important enough to remind me of their presence every time I visit my desktop.

Sensory overload

You should not wake yourself to CNN, Fox News or any other sensory heavy blast of information. Why then do we wake ourselves to [Read more…]

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The organizers are winning

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– Twitter
– Facebook
– LinkedIn
– Ning Groups
– Work email
– Personal email
– Blog
– eNewsletters (I really like those)

How many of these do you have?
How do you keep them organized?

The most exciting and expanding part of the internet is “ORGANIZING”.  Software that will help you keep track of the 12 different streams of information that you’re trying so desparately to keep updated and organized.  It’s impossible to do with out some tools.  Here are a few stories about organizers that will peek your interest, improve your organization and give you hope that one day all this technology could become more simple instead of more complex.   Technology is supposed to improve our lives isn’t it?

One Inbox2
“Attempts to bring together all your message streams (email accounts, Twitter, Facebook) into a single master inbox.” (TechCruch.com)

Google Wave
A completely new way of communicating

HighRise
Contact management system to keep you and your business organized.  Never forget a conversation or email again.

HootSuite
Track all sorts of streams of information and even collect your own info from the noise that is social media.

Good luck…and try to get organized.  There’s hope if you do.