3 Simple Filing GuidelinesWritten by Maria Gracia
3 Simple Filing Guidelines by Maria GraciaOne of most basic ways to find papers when you need them is to retrieve them from an effective filing system. A good filing system will allow you to find what you're looking for in 10 seconds or less. Here are 3 simple filing guidelines that can help: 1. CATEGORIZING. A filing system is only effective, if you can find everything you need, when you need it--without a struggle. And all good filing systems have different categories of papers. Your papers are either going to fall into a MAIN category, or a SUB-category. For example, a main category might be FINANCIAL. Some sub-categories within Financial, may be: --Savings Account --Checking Account --Money Market Account In your filing cabinet, your main categories should always be hanging file folders with a labeled tab. Your sub-categories should be labeled manila file folders inside appropriate main category hanging folder. 2. BASIC FILING SYSTEMS. For most part, people choose to use one, or a combination of, these basic filing systems: A. Alphabetical (A, B, C, D, etc.) B. Numerical (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) C. Chronological (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, etc.) The one you use, depends on what you're using it for. For example, if you need to keep files for all of your customers (or associates, friends, etc.), alphabetical by last name usually will work best.
| | Emotional Intelligence: The Geek We Know & LoveWritten by Brenda Smith, EQ Coach
Love & EQ--The "Geek" we all love.... You know one...you might have one working for you....you may even be in love with one...or, maybe you is one.... Affectionately, we call them geeks, nerds or techies. Yet, any of us can fall into this category when we're stressed, spending too much time in our heads and particularly in left hemisphere of our brains. While left-brain dominant people are often eccentric, they are typically linear, logical and rationale. They are efficient. To be in love, efficiency gives way to effectiveness. It happens to best of us--- wanting to be good parents, partners, colleagues and friends, yet, mired in memos and meetings, spreadsheets and stock returns or bits and bytes. The business of life is about relationship; and relationship is less about IQ and more about EQ--our emotional intelligence. Men and women are different (like you needed me to tell you). But across all genders, and throughout all primitive or civilized cultures, one thing remains same--the meaning of emotion. We all have them, though many of us ignore them. High acheivers, so adept at focusing keen attention, have often dispensed with them. Today, we can't ignore them--they contribute up to 96% to our success--and they're their back in style. These leaky, renegade impulses that seem so out of control are a resource we can tap into to make right decisions, raise capital, make sale, get girl (or guy) and feel fulfilled. Good gut can be yours...all you need is to pay attention to that queasy feeling in your stomach, tension in your neck, fatigue from your job. Listen. Paying attention to what (and who) energizes you and what (and who) discourages you means your emotional sentinels are attuned to information your well-conditioned mind is missing. Love & Addictive Society Americans consume 5 billion tranquilizers and 16,000 tons of aspirin each year. Thirty-one percent of population is chronically depressed and 79% want to quit their jobs and live off land. Why? Because there's not enough love and too many substitutes for it. We want connection. We want to be valued and validated. And when we don't get it we buy things, eat things, wear things, do and use things to give us what we really want--love. Love is nothing more than giving to another, and allowing them to be seen, heard and appreciated for who they are. Can't we make a little space in ourselves for others--and their differences-- to enter? A Balanced Heart...Outer space or Inner space? Most of us have far too much to do and too little time. We spend so much time thinking that our center of gravity has risen from our solar plexus up and into our heads. We're off center because we're a-head of ourselves. How can we give anything to another when we're depleted and malnourished? Rather than be defeated by stress, use creative tension to put more balance into your life. Balance is not about time management ; it is not about doing more, but in "be"-ing more. It is holding center between making things happen (doing) and allowing things to happen (being); it is leaving intellect and heading for heart. Take thirty seconds during a stressful moment and follow this SOS--STOP what you're doing---OXEGENATE by taking three deep breaths into your body---SEEK APPRECIATION by recalling an event that was loving and peaceful, bringing your attention to your heart area---SEEK ADDITIONAL INFORMATION from your heart and ask, what is best course of action in this situation.
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