Took the take back my life class... Pretty cool... I'm now devoting two laptops to techniques taught in the class to organize your tasks, make commitments you can keep, and get your inbox emptied.....
One problem is that now outlook reminder dialog pops up with 40 scheduled things I was supposed to do..... But at least my office inbox is finally under 500 messages.... I cheated on emptying my personal inbox. I just started a new inbox file. My old one had grown 2.2 gigabytes.
The class never mentioned using "outlook rules", but the class did mention that you should cut down on the number of collection points you have. So I used to have outlook rules to sort my friends and business associates emails into different folders. That was nice because answering them would get the answers put into the folder with their message. But the problem is that I had to remember to check all of those folders. I've now decided the only use for outlook rules is to sort things that don't require personal action, like incoming newsletter emails, and to never use rules to sort emails from friends or clients that I might need to react to. Emails from friends and business associates should remain in my inbox. I should make the sorting of their emails a manual step as I am emptying my inbox, I can sort their emails to the right folders.
Take Back Your Life!: Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to Get Organized and Stay Organized
Sally McGhee$24.99(USD)
If you re bogged down by unrelenting e-mail messages, conflicting commitments, and endless interruptions, it s not too late to reclaim control of your workday and take back your life! By applying the same time management and productivity techniques used by leading companies, you can better manage all of your communications, action items, and interactions. In this book, productivity expert Sally McGhee shows you how to take control and reclaim something you thought you had lost forever: your work-life balance. Now you can benefit from Sally s popular and highly regarded corporate education programs, learning simple but powerful techniques for rebalancing your personal and professional commitments by using the latest productivity features in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. Learn the proven methods that empower you to clear away distractions and loose ends and focus on what s really important to you and your business. You will discover what defines, and what limits, your personal productivity and learn how to create your own management system. Examine how you collect and store information, process and organize your e-mail messages for efficiency, and plan and prioritize with the calendar features in Office Outlook 2007. Learn what thousands of people worldwide have discovered about taking control of their everyday productivity, and start transforming your own life today! Includes a tear-out poster of the proven McGhee Productivity Solutions Workflow Model suitable for keeping right next to your desk.
Helps you understand what defines, and what limits, your personal productivity
Demonstrates how to make Office Outlook 2007 part of an effective and highly personalized system for managing the constant stream of information that flows across your desktop
Delivers the same powerful personal organization techniques from a popular corporate training class taught in some of the world s most successful companies
Offers an engaging, easy-to-read style for users of all levels
Applies concepts and models from the fields of behavioral psychology and education
