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How to Implement a Better “Getting Things Done” for Email

What does “productive” mean to you?
The first step towards productive email management may be to identify your goals. For most of us, it means a few things:

Not missing important emails
Not having to spend hours of our time picking out the important emails
Quickly finding an email when we need it
Being able to scan the inbox for important items

One popular productivity method is called “Getting Things Done” (or GTD), first made popular by David Allen’s book in […]

By |March 29th, 2016|Digital Chaos Control, Email Management|2 Comments

Drowning in Email: A Guide Back to Shore

Dial back time (you’ll have to imagine if you’re too young) to 1980.
Imagine your morning routine: you rise, shower, eat breakfast, get in the car (or not), and get to work. You sit down at your desk, and you’re looking at a pile of nearly 100 envelopes that have been delivered overnight, stacked in front of pile after pile of envelopes that you haven’t gotten to in the previous days. You start going through the […]

By |March 22nd, 2016|Digital Chaos Control, Email Management|Comments Off on Drowning in Email: A Guide Back to Shore

How to Become a Pro at Managing Email Overload

The average business worker sends and receives over 120 business emails per day and spends nearly 30 percent of the workweek managing email. Together with personal email, 205 billion emails are sent emails each day—a number expected to increase over 16 percent to 246 billion emails in 2019.
Email overload can result in anxiety and feelings of guilt.
It can be stressful to see your Inbox growing out of control and there is an increased risk of […]

By |March 16th, 2016|Digital Chaos Control, Email Management|Comments Off on How to Become a Pro at Managing Email Overload

6 Steps for a Photo Organization Routine

You may or may not remember film photography – keeping exposed film in your fridge, dropping it off for developing, getting prints that you eagerly look through, picking out your favorites, and putting them in a photo album.

Now we have an abundance of digital photographs, and most of us are not taking the time to look through them and organize them, which means that when you want to go back and find those special photos, […]

By |December 22nd, 2015|Cloud Services, Digital Chaos Control, Photo Management|Comments Off on 6 Steps for a Photo Organization Routine

Do You Need a Technology Coach?

Going it alone is not always a good idea and can stall your progress, so it sometimes makes sense to invest in a coach.

I call myself a “productivity consultant” rather than a “coach” because I have years of expertise in technology, organization, management, and communication – all skills that I leverage to help my clients with their digital chaos. Coaches, such as business and life coaches, have expertise as well, but their skills are more […]

By |July 7th, 2015|Digital Chaos Control, Technology|Comments Off on Do You Need a Technology Coach?

Photo Sharing

In this age of digital photography, we generate tons of photos – our families, pets, vacations, school field trips, concerts, parties; the list goes on and on. The old days of getting our photos printed and into binders and scrapbooks are largely gone. It used to be fun to pull out the old photo albums and sit down with family and friends to laugh at crazy poses and faces, and to experience a shared emotion […]

By |July 23rd, 2013|Cloud Services, Digital Chaos Control, Photo Management, Technology|Comments Off on Photo Sharing