Getting Organized–the communications planner

For those of you who are taking our online classes Organize Or Agonize,you already know how I feel about the importance of keeping all of the details of life within arms reach on the communications planning form. If you are just starting that task you’ll find it a lot easier if you have checklist to work from. While doing my morning news reading in my Bloglines account I ran across this nugget. 

  Cool/convenient lists to have
There are critical reminder-type lists that we all need to let our brain relax (re: outcomes and actions). There are other lists, though, that can be useful, fun, and interesting, that fit in the area of “reference” or “support.”

Here are some of the latter that I (or people I know) have had in their planners, PDA’s, computer files, or file folders. (Please let me know of any of yours, so that we can share the fun.)

Account and $ numbers- credit card #s, PIN #s, etc. (if you’re using a Palm you can put these in Tel/Add, make them “private”, and turn off the Private view so that you only can see those entries when you turn it on with your password.)

Affirmations- personal self-talk scripts for positive internal programming

Basic personal numbers (self and family members)- drivers license, social security, insurance policies, Whatever you may need for yourself and others when filling out forms

 

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    Saying no isn’t easy, but it’s a required skill

    For those of you in my online class Organize Or Agonize , already know my advice about what saying no means for your personal well being. This morning I read this great article on reframing your thinking about saying no.

    Saying no isn’t easy, but it’s a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you’ll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.

    There is no unconditional yes. Whenever you say yes, you’re also uttering a background no. Whenever you allocate time to one pursuit, you say no to everything else you could have done with that time.

    Not too long ago, Blockbuster Video initiated a “no late fees” policy. In a way they’re saying yes to their customers who complained about having to pay late fees when returning a movie after the due date. But this policy has a side effect. Because there are no late fees, customers keep movies they’ve rented for a longer period of time before bothering to return them. So now when you go to Blockbuster to rent the latest releases, which used to be stocked abundantly, they’re more likely to be all picked out. The videos are in people’s houses instead of on the store shelves. I’ve heard Blockbuster employees apologizing for this policy on numerous occasions, usually in response to customer complaints that the new releases can’t be rented. The value of knowing you could go to Blockbuster Video and rent whatever you wanted is no longer there.

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