Business: <br>Five Tips To Create A Master Plan For Professional Success

Five Tips To Create A Master Plan For Professional Success

Written by Kate Smalley

To improve your chance for business success, you should create a master plan. This is your big picture…a visual map of how success looks to you. But success doesn’t just happen; it requires focus, constant planning and hard work. To help you, here are five strategies for creating a master plan for achieving success:

1. Imagine repparttar possibilities: Think of 101 things you want to accomplish in repparttar 141548 next 10 years. Have fun with this and let your imagination run free. Be specific and personalize your list by beginning each sentence with “I am” or “I will.” For example, “I will complete at least three professional development courses this year. “Or, “I am repparttar 141549 most successful salesperson in my company.”

To get you started, here are a few questions that can help you gain focus:

What do I want to do? What do I want to have? Where do I want to go? What contributions do I want to make? What do I want to become? What do I want to learn? How much time do I want off for fun? Whom do I want to spend time with? How much money do I want to earn, save and invest?

Once you make your list of goals, prioritize them. Place a 1 by repparttar 141550 most important goal, 2 beside repparttar 141551 next most important and so on. But before you do that, write down repparttar 141552 most important reason you want to accomplish each goal and repparttar 141553 biggest benefit you will receive from each. This will help you stay focused and motivated.

5 Tips to Color Code Your Way from Computer Chaos to Coherence

Written by Eve Abbott

5 Tips to Color Code Your Way from Computer Chaos to Coherence by Eve Abbott, repparttar

Organizer Extraordinaire Excerpted from her new book, How to Do Space Age Work with a Stone Age Brain TM

Color is just like a Porsche--There Is No Substitute In anatomical illustrations you see repparttar 141521 brain's large visual system, where repparttar 141522 optic nerve is actually 25 times faster than our audio nerves (hearing). No matter which processing style you depend on, 90 percent of repparttar 141523 sensory perceptions received by your brain are visual. This is undoubtedly why color-coding works even for Auditory and Kinesthetic Learners.

Color-Coding Your Calendar Custom color-coding each entry is one of repparttar 141524 biggest improvements in Computer Calendars. When your appointment window pops up for repparttar 141525 details; You'll find a drop-down field option to choose which color you want.

Color-coding will reduce mis-reads by as much as 90%, even if you don't change anything else about your calendar's display.

One executive client codes his calendar with black for onsite meetings, red for travel, green for offsite meetings and blue for personal/family time.

I know soccer moms who color code for school, church, medical appointments, and family time. Truth is, they have just as many appointments to track as most executives.

Color-Coding Your E-mail You can color-code your messages in almost every current e-mail program. You can do this by "training" your filters (sometimes called rules or screens) to recognize your clients or customers and make all their incoming messages appear in red.

Usually you'll find this function under Tools, and Options. Just fill in which e-addresses you want in what colors. You only have to do this once and it will work for you from then on.

My e-mail is set up to show all incoming messages from people I know I want to hear from in blue. Many of my clients set it so that any e-mail from their boss appears in red. Make color work for you - use it a lot in your office and on your computer too!

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