Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Dec 14, 2009, 11:49 am
Last week I received the audience feedback from a conference workshop I led in November. One respondent commented anonymously: “So inspiring, clean. Made a promise to myself as a result of this...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Dec 1, 2009, 11:38 pm
Just a quick reminder: if you’d like to receive the New Leaf News, our monthly newsletter of helpful productivity tips, book reviews, announcements, and special offers, just sign up here. It...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Dec 1, 2009, 8:48 pm
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but also the parent of all the others. — Cicero For years I had kept a gratitude journal — a notebook in which I recorded things large and s...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Nov 23, 2009, 5:00 am
A quote for the day: Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself. - Rumi I wish you all a Thanksgiving filled with abundant sweetness. I am grateful for your presence in my lif...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Nov 2, 2009, 9:02 am
Recently I was seated next to Laura Van Galen, the dynamic head of Bleu Marketing, a full-service direct marketing firm based in San Francisco. She described to me a practice she uses with her senior ...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Oct 24, 2009, 8:50 pm
A quote for the day: There is time enough for everything in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once, but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time. ...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Oct 15, 2009, 11:00 am
Bon Appetit! Like a featured recipe in a cooking magazine, productivity has many ingredients. Some are obvious (oh, there’s beef in the beef stew!) while some are subtle (who knew that excellen...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Oct 12, 2009, 10:48 pm
It's a time management thing The national “do not call” list is well-known to many people. By registering your business or home number, telemarketers once were forbidden from calling ...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Oct 5, 2009, 11:48 am
Eliminate the excess at work and at home Are you a professional organizer or hope to become one? Don’t miss the upcoming teleclass “Eliminating Excess”. This class is part of the se...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Oct 3, 2009, 10:13 am
As I began to write an outline of her project, my usually reserved client let out a desperate groan. She was experiencing feelings of being overwhelmed and “beaten up” by the things she ha...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Sep 21, 2009, 12:34 pm
In the past two weeks I have spoken with two professionals, both highly capable and generally cheerful people, who are facing genuine cases of burnout. We sometimes hear the tern “burnout”...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Sep 3, 2009, 9:04 pm
A quote for the day: photo by Margaret Lukens I have laid aside business and gone a-fishing. – Izaak Walton, author of The Compleat Angler, 1657
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Aug 30, 2009, 6:55 pm
Cable clutter, your days are numbered! Why do they call my printer “a wireless device”? Though it communicates with my computer via bluetooth technology, it still must be plugged into the...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Aug 22, 2009, 6:22 pm
Evernote’s logo is the elephant, the creature with a reputation for never forgetting, and it’s true that Evernote allows me to capture tasks and to-dos whenever I think of them and funnel ...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Aug 10, 2009, 7:48 pm
If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. – Charles Dickens Balancing stress and recovery is essential to high performance, and I am in need of a tune up before I,...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Jul 20, 2009, 8:56 pm
A penny earned is also a penny earned, Ben! Call me a spendthrift, but I’ve noticed a disturbing tendency in these uncertain economic times, as otherwise savvy business people focus on measly e...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Jul 20, 2009, 8:45 am
Recently I wrote about the devastating loss that can occur if business data isn’t backed up, and I shared ways to back up both onsite (for ease of retrieval) and offsite (in case the onsite back...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Jul 14, 2009, 11:02 am
There is a certain category of tasks that languish on our lists because they lack a firm deadline. Catching up with filing is one example; everything with a deadline can come before filing. Writing a ...
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Margaret L. posted an article on New Leaf News - Jul 2, 2009, 12:54 am
A quote for the day: I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the eman...
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