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How to Auto-Archive Email

Do you wish you could make old email messages magically disappear? Actually, you can. You just need to do some advance planning. If you have whole categories of email messages that you don’t want to delete immediately, but that you don’t want to retain indefinitely either, (for example, email newsletters you receive regularly), you can …

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Do This Instead of Making New Year’s Resolutions

What’s your New Year’s resolution? It’s that time of year again, when everyone wants to know what your New Year’s resolution is. I’m not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. There’s too much pressure around them. People think they need to set a big, lofty goal for the new year, but statistics show that …

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Using Your Task List to Create Systems

In my last few articles/videos I’ve been talking about managing your to-dos or task list. We’ve talked about getting everything out of your head and then categorizing all of the tasks on your list and determining how those tasks get triggered, or how those tasks come about. Now let’s talk about how to use that …

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Are You Distracted at Work? Close Those Open Loops!

Are you often distracted at work? Do you interrupt yourself in the middle of an important project because you suddenly remembered something else that you need to do? In this video series, we’ve been talking about distractions and interruptions. Sometimes those distractions and interruptions are external – they come from someone else. Other times those …

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Are You the Source of Your Interruptions? [video]

Are you the source of your own interruptions? In this series of videos, I have been talking about how to limit interruptions. We’ve talked about limiting interruptions from clients and colleagues, setting and sticking to a communications policy, and not taking unplanned phone calls. Those are all external interruptions – interruptions that come from other …

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Stop Co-Worker Interruptions [video]

Who interrupts you at work? In my last couple of videos, I talked about how lawyers can prevent interruptions from clients by setting a communications policy and not taking unplanned telephone calls. But what happens when the interruption comes not from clients, but from inside your own organization? Do any of these interruptions sound familiar? …

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Don’t Let Toxic Employees Push Out Good Employees

Are your best employees leaving because others are being given a free pass on their bad behavior? Poorly behaved or toxic employees: Cause emotional turmoil Damage morale Disrupt work Decrease productivity Spread their bad behavior to others Sometimes toxic employees are easy to identify: they shout at other employees, make snide comments, tell inappropriate jokes, …

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