If you have a bag of old checks, credit card statements, tax returns, or other private documents hanging around, good news: Staples stores are offering five pounds of free shredding. Just bring your bag or box to any Staples store to have it securely shredded. As you prepare to complete your 2011 IRS tax filing,…
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Floss One Tooth: How Tiny Habit Changes Can Make All the Difference
There are three ways to change your behavior. You can have an epiphany. If you know the story of Byron Katie’s remarkable turn-around, you have an example of an epiphany. These are hard to engineer, so looking for one to show up can be a long and frustrating wait. You can change your context. When…
Delegate to a Task Rabbit: A Little Help, Quick Like a Bunny
Delegation is one of the most difficult skills for many entrepreneurs to pick up. There are a lot of reasons for this – the skills and traits required for long-term delegation make the subject of other posts. But what if we just need a little low-stress help on a temporary basis? We don’t need to…
How Can a Tomato Give You Time-Management Superpowers?
We live in a world of interruptions and distractions. These interruptions can make it tough to finish the projects that matter most to us. And the answer to this problem is – a tomato. I’m talking about a time-management method called the Pomodoro Technique. First taught in the early 1990s, the technique was developed by…
Worth Repeating – May posts from New Leaf News
Looking ahead to summer. Remembering the past on Memorial Day. Listening as commencement speakers recall prior achievements and give advice for a lifetime. May is filled with beginnings and endings. What would you like to begin? What would you like to end? Here are a few posts from past Mays to help make today more…
Worth Repeating – February posts from New Leaf News
I’m in love with this sample of February posts from years past, and I hope you are, too! It’s a good time to check for “tolerations” – those small annoyances that can get in the way of your progress. Address them now! Here’s how. And speaking of tolerations, are you seeing too much of your…
Worth Repeating – October posts from New Leaf News
I’ve dipped into the New Leaf News archives to share a few posts that still seem as fresh and relevant today as they did in Octobers past. In case you missed them the first time around, here they come again! I’m still using mind-mapping as a technique to organize and view more information than…
Productivity snack: text GOOGL for free 411
Let’s suppose that as you dash out of your office to do a round of meetings and errands, you neglect to pick up the paper with the address of one of your appointments. Trip wasted? Not necessarily. Now you can just text GOOGL (46645) with the name of the business followed by CITY,STATE and immediately…
Worth repeating – August posts from New Leaf News
I’m sharing a few posts from the New Leaf archives. Here’s what was on our mind in August during the past couple of years. Productivity depends on being able to work in comfort. Eliminate at least one pain in the neck with a wireless headset. Successfully planning for the future requires acknowledging past wins. Are…
Listen to "Getting Organized with Margaret Lukens" podcasts
Would you like to listen to your organizing and productivity information as well as read it? The latest episodes of my radio program, “Getting Organized with Margaret Lukens”, are now available as podcasts on iTunes. The free podcasts were originally broadcast on WHDD public radio in Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts. Now you can download…