Online Courses
How to Organize Your Time and your Life (23 minutes)
Looking for an organizational system that fits your specific needs? Don’t just follow the trendiest new productivity hacks. In this course, adapted from the podcast How to Be Awesome at Your Job, join organization guru Julie Morgenstern as she discusses how to manage your time for greater productivity and build a system tailored to your needs. Julie goes over the importance of considering your goals and personality when designing your system. Figuring out what works best for you will ensure your system feels natural and functions optimally. Julie also covers how to troubleshoot your organizational systems in order to narrow down what’s working and what’s not, reclaim your creative time, keep your inbox from taking over your day, and more.
Organizing Your Office for Maximum Efficiency (1 hour, 2 minutes)
Whether you have a private office, home office, or shared office space, there are many ways to organize your work area for maximum efficiency. In this course, professional organizer Suzanna Kaye covers different organizational styles and options so you can choose the best setup for your situation. She explains how to maintain proper posture and select the right furniture, technology, and lighting; reviews storage options; and walks through filing concepts to help track paperwork and get more done.
Getting Organized for Peak Performance (41 minutes)
You’ve probably heard it a thousand times: “Time is money.” But how can you capture all of that revenue when you feel constantly bogged down by disorganization and disruption? The steady barrage of technology, clutter, procrastination, and a never-ending to-do list of tasks—how can you ever hope to reach your potential when you can’t even control your time? Not to worry—in this course, join best-selling author and executive coach Dr. Don Gilman as he shows you how to make the most of your time by getting a grip on your time management workflow and lending structure to your work environment. Learn to use strategic-planning tools more effectively and with ease, delegating some of your work to others and managing that vicious beast: your dreaded email inbox. If you're ready to reach your goals and achieve peak performance, why wait when you can start today?
Books
Self-Organization In 8 Weeks: Your Ultimate Guide To A More Organized And Productive Life
Author: Simon Wright
Summary: The term self-organization may seem misleading because it implies that it happens on its own, without any prompting. In reality, achieving self-organization actually requires a conscious effort on your part. Self-organization simply means organizing your mind, actions, time, home, relationships, work, and your life in general. It is important to keep yourself organized if you want to be successful in life. If you want to be successful in life, you need to organize your life so you can get more things done in the shortest time possible. Organization is one of the keys to success. You may think that 24 hours is not enough to finish all the things that you need to do, but this is not true. A lot of busy people are successful in what they do and still have enough time for their personal life. This means they must be doing something right with their time. Organizing is a lot more than de-cluttering and making a to-do list. It takes a lot of effort on your part, but the eventual rewards are worth it. This book gives you some useful tips and information about self-organization which includes time optimization, effective planning, increasing productivity, eliminating distractions, and a lot more. You will also be given challenges for each week to help you become more organized and permanently change your ways for the better.
Organize Your Day: How to Manage Your Day and to Become More Productive and Successful
Author: Dorothy Enderson
Summary: Do you feel like you are doing a lot of work without any real results? Are you distracted, overwhelmed with work pressure, and feeling disorganized? You are living a busy life, but are you living an organized and productive life? We all want balance in work and life. We want to achieve that balance without being stressed out, overwhelmed and exhausted. The world is changing and you need to change and adjust with it. An organized and productive person doesn’t have more time in their day than you. We all live the same 24 hour day night cycle, but the difference between you and them is that they know how to manage their day properly. This comprehensive book encourages you to take small steps in organizing your home, office, and life in order to enjoy a stress-free, productive life. Start your day after a quality sleep and with the proper diet and nutrition. You will remain active and organized all day. Manage your stress and manage your day. In this book are simple techniques to help you learn how to become organized and get more things done in short time. Know about these productive methods and apply them in your life successfully. These are useful tips for you to utilize every minute of your life, so don’t waste time. Start reading the book and organize your life.
Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life
Authors: Marie Kondo, Scott Sonenshein
Summary: The workplace is a magnet for clutter and mess. Who hasn't felt drained by wasteful meetings, disorganized papers, endless emails, and unnecessary tasks? These are the modern-day hazards of working, and they can slowly drain the joy from work, limit our chances of career progress, and undermine our well-being. There is another way. In Joy at Work, bestselling author and Netflix star Marie Kondo and Rice University business professor Scott Sonenshein offer stories, studies, and strategies to help you eliminate clutter and make space for work that really matters. Using the world-renowned KonMari Method and cutting-edge research, Joy at Work will help you overcome the challenges of workplace mess and enjoy the productivity, success, and happiness that come with a tidy desk and mind.
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