You will find that as you regularly feed other areas of yourself, you'll be more fulfilled and more effective at work because you are functioning as a whole person instead of just a worker bee.

Remember, you're engine of your life, and every engine needs fuel and maintenance in order to work properly. Don't make mistake of letting your engine fall into disrepair! Take time to sharpen your saw and success and fulfillment will follow.

Monica Ricci has been an organizing specialist since 1999, and her motivational presentations teach effective organizing and simplifying techniques for home and work. She also offers free email tips and ideas on how to make life simpler and more organized. Her topics include clutter control, paper management, time management, organizing space and procrastination.Contact Monica at 770-569-2642 or Monica@CatalystOrganizing.com.

For scheduling, pull a task from master list, choose appropriate time to take action, and schedule it into your calendar. If it is a project or a long-term or complex task, break it into manageable pieces and then schedule each of pieces into your calendar. By breaking your projects and large tasks into small chunks, you will be able to better estimate how long it will take you to finish, and you won't feel overwhelmed by size of task.

Planning and scheduling are both valuable habits to develop, as they keep you on track and focused on both your short term and long term goals. At end of year you?ll be amazed at how many things you were able to accomplish simply by taking them out of your head and putting them into your calendar.

Monica Ricci has been an organizing specialist since 1999, and her motivational presentations teach effective organizing and simplifying techniques for home and work. She also offers free email tips and ideas on how to make life simpler and more organized. Her topics include clutter control, paper management, time management, organizing space and procrastination.Contact Monica at 770-569-2642 or Monica@CatalystOrganizing.com.