A Natural Mood Elevator

Written by Joe Cirillo


Are you feeling moody? Irritable? Perhaps arguing with your spouse more than you should? Maybe your disorganized closet is to blame. Oddly enough, studies have shown that disorganization can also lend itself to a, shall we say, less than stellar mood. If you wake up in chaos, you’ll tend to feel harried and chaotic most ofrepparttar day.

If you suspect your miles of piles might berepparttar 101269 cause of your foul mood, take a minute to consider your surroundings. Step back and surveyrepparttar 101270 space around you. Do you have stacks of things getting in your way. A stack of magazines you’ll probably never read, a stack of week-old newspapers you promised yourself you’d get to? Or maybe you’re moods have more to do withrepparttar 101271 things you can’t see, like your closets, pantry and drawers. They key is that if you already feel overwhelmed, opening up a closet crammed with “stuff” isn’t going to help your mood, in fact it’s going to worsen it.

As you begin to go after these areas and get organized, remember that Rome wasn’t built in a day andrepparttar 101272 best organization is done one room, one drawer and one closet at a time. Many times a project like this can take an entire day to accomplish, but if you’ve got limited time, keeprepparttar 101273 reminiscing for later (“Look! I found Billy’s first pair of baby shoes! I’ve been looking for them forever!”) and set aside a stack of things you need to go through and label or file once you’ve cleared outrepparttar 101274 space.

E-mail Magic

Written by Joe Cirillo


Is an overabundance of e-mail stealing precious moments of your time? If it is, it’s time to take some of those moments back so you can start enjoying life instead of feeling overwhelmed by allrepparttar e-mails you need to sift through. E-mail is a powerful communication tool, but it’s also powerfully taking up a lot of our time. Many of us spend almost a quarter or more of our workday sifting through and responding to e-mails. E-mails can be frustrating if they’re not handled property. Every time you open your e-mail and see a series of unanswered messages in your inbox it represents unfinished work, demands on your time, and more deadlines than you probably ever thought you’d have. But there’s a way you can manage e-mail better and reclaim your time for more productive things. Outlook isrepparttar 101268 most common program for e-mail these days, unfortunately most of us only use 20 percent ofrepparttar 101269 features it comes with. The rules and filters feature for example can be a very powerful tool. If you receive e-mails fromrepparttar 101270 same people on a regular basis, have them sift into their own folder so they stay out of your inbox. Then you can set a trigger through your rules wizard to notify you with a pop up message whenever an e-mail from that person pops into his or her folder. That way you keep your inbox clear and uncluttered. Unsubscribe from as many distribution lists as you can, but if you need to stay on them, use another e-mail program (like Hotmail) to register for these. Discussion groups and distribution lists can really clog e-mail and do a number on your sense of organization if they’re allowed to get out of control. Instead, assign a specific e-mail account to these lists or get rid of them altogether. Make sure people know they don’t need to respond to every message you’re sending by using language such as “No reply needed.” If you’re addressing several issues in an e-mail, consider dividing them up into e-mails addressing each issue separately when you can. You might think this is counter productive to reducing e-mail, but it’s been proven that people generally respond to onlyrepparttar 101271 first and last thing they read in an e-mail. This means that if there are other items that have been overlooked you’ll need to pesterrepparttar 101272 e-mail recipient for an answer. More e-mails, more frustration and well, you getrepparttar 101273 general idea.

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