Writing "Morning Pages"

Julia Cameron recommends using "morning pages " to uncover concepts to address during the day.

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For an Ordered Life

Readers' Digest Editors share small tips for big improvements in organizing your life.

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Organizing Kitchen Pots and Pans

Lydia Geisel writes about storing kitchen pots and pans without stacking .

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The Eisenhower Box

James Clear shares a set of criteria for allocating time made famous by U.S. President Eisenhower . The "Eisenhower Box" assigns tasks to one of these four values:

1. Urgent and important (tasks you will do immediately).
2. Important, but not urgent (tasks you will schedule to do later).
3. Urgent, but not important (tasks you will delegate to someone else).
4. Neither urgent nor important (tasks that you will eliminate).

I attempt to use this concept at work. In doing so, I have discovered that a missing dimension in the Eisenhower Box is the need to let time pass for more information to become available. And that some urgent tasks may not be important in your work life but are very important in your personal life (spending time in the hospital with a sick spouse, for example) and cannot be delegated.

This is still a useful framework.

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Organizing Your Life

J. R. Raphael recommends Android apps for personal organization .

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Establishing Priorities

Brian Tracy suggests how we can set our priorities .

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Organizing Your Photos

Brian X. Chen suggests that it may be productive for smartphone users to avoid organizing their photos . The amount of benefit does not merit the effort, when there are search tools available to look for images.

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Tracking Work in Progress

Erin Marie Furtak explains how she catagorizes and tracks items in her professional writing process . Her systems allows her to work on multiple papers at one time.

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Avoiding Clutter

Stephanie Vozza offers suggests for avoiding clutter and becoming organized.

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Home Libraries and Their Owners

Australian Clem Bastow muses on what home libraries say about their owners .

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