Organising Your Personal Affairs

Written by Lorraine Pirihi


I’m always amazed that so many people spend most of their life at work and totally neglect their personal affairs.

Many ofrepparttar business people I work with want their professional lives to be in order, and admit that their personal affairs are in chaos.

They have no systems for handling this most important area. The household paperwork is disorganised...piled up in a corner ofrepparttar 106704 house...somewhere, they have no idea where they spend their money and often have no plan for their financial future.

If you do not organise your personal life, you won’t have much of a future to look forward to.

Avoidrepparttar 106705 excuses that you are too tired, don’t haverepparttar 106706 time, don’t know how.

Here are a few tips to get you started:

Personal Papers 1. Set up a filing system to store your paperwork.

File your papers in categories: Bank, Car, Children, Home, Medical, Insurance, Investment, Tax, Utilities etc.

Organise direct debits for regular bills.

Read, sort and action your snail and e-mail daily. This will avoid a big build-up.

Make a note in your diary when you need to remember to do things.

Check your bank accounts weekly via phone orrepparttar 106707 Internet to keep tabs on your money.

Allocate a particular day and time each week to review your personal affairs.

Organising Your Financial Future This area should be top priority. If you do nothing because it’s too much effort well, think about this.

LOW UNEMPLOYMENT: CATALYST FOR EXCELLENCE OR EXCUSE FOR FAILURE?

Written by Mason Duchatschek


“Wise isrepparttar man who fixes his roof whilerepparttar 106703 sun is shining.” – Ben Franklin

During low unemployment, companies that plan to grow by simply adding employees will find that shallow labor pools won’t readily support them. Companies that plan to select, develop, and retain employeesrepparttar 106704 way they’ve always done it could create a competitive disadvantage they might never overcome.

Low unemployment in a booming economy means increased competition for a diminishing number of available applicants. Whether employers like it or not, they will be forced to change their approach to staffing their businesses if they want to keep up, much less move ahead, in these competitive times.

Whenever I find myself struggling to figure out a problem, I begin to look for models of success established by others who have been involved in situations similar to mine. For those of you wondering whatrepparttar 106705 heck you’re going to do to meetrepparttar 106706 staffing challenges ofrepparttar 106707 near future, I suspect that you might get a few good ideas from a somewhat unlikely source . . . a professional sports team. For example, lets take a look at pro baseball teams and how they operate. They:

·Get rid of people who can’t dorepparttar 106708 job. ·Train and develop those who can dorepparttar 106709 job. ·Support those who are doingrepparttar 106710 job. ·Look externally for other people when they don’t haverepparttar 106711 resources internally to dorepparttar 106712 job.

For example, let's take a look at a starting second baseman on a major league team. Suppose he gets sidelined because of an injury. His organization would have substitute players trained, developed, and ready to play. His organization would also have a whole system of minor league players, at different skill levels, preparing forrepparttar 106713 opportunity to do his job.

Asrepparttar 106714 starting second baseman, he would also have to rely on those teammates around him and his organization’s ability to replace those who leave or are injured with other players who are as good as or better thanrepparttar 106715 previous players.

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