2. Create a picture goals book: To improve your focus on your new lifestyle, create a picture book of your most important goals. Simply start collecting pictures in a large photo album.

3. Use an ideas book: Get a basic notebook and jot down your daily observations and insights. This is a powerful tool to expand your awareness. You can use your book for business ideas, sales tips presentation skills, money-making projects or quotes you have read. If you’re more a computer person, you can start a Word document called “Great Ideas.”

4. Visualize, think, reflect and review: Use your imagination to create positive, winning pictures. The sharper your images are and more intense you feel, more likely you are to create result you desire.

5. Develop mentors and mastermind groups: Surround yourself with business people who have more experience in areas where you are lacking. Your master-mind group should have four to six people who meet regularly to share ideas and support each other. These are power alliances that can help you achieve your goals much faster than you could on your own.

Color-Coding Other Electronic Files It's not as easy to color-code folders in Windows Explorer as it is to color-code calendar entries or e-mail messages, but it can be done, at least in Windows XP.

First you need to get or make folder icons in different colors. (Try doing a search on "icon libraries" in Google.) Once you have some icons to choose from, right-click on folder you want to color-code and select "Properties" from list that appears. You'll see a "Customize" tab across top of Properties window. Using this, you can put different pictures on different types of file folders, or choose a new icon for particular folder you are modifying.

The icons or pictures should match your overall color-coding system, one you are already using for your paper files, e-mail, and calendar. In list on left, folders are named and color-coded in same way as in File Kits described below. You can, of course, choose an even simpler system, or a more complex one, depending on how many different computer files you have and how you want to be able to distinguish them.

This procedure is time-consuming (especially if you don't start when you first set up your computer filing system), but it can be worth it to Visual Learner for whom file names and subfolders aren't enough.

No need to reinvent organizing wheel. There are many program features that can help you, but be sure how you'll use it and where you'll put it. Otherwise you're just going to end up with a bunch of brightly colored folders and messages that you've piled more chaos on.

Now you know techniques and tools you'll need to succeed with your color-coding computer tune-up. Go Forth and Color Code!