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Beyond Organization |
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Kenrick Cleveland |
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beyond organization
Kenrick Cleveland
If you know me at all, you know I'm a busy man--from teaching my weekly coaching calls, giving seminars, working up lesson plans for the Persuasion Factor to spending time with my family and friends and working with the religious organization I am involved in. I wish there were more hours in a day. On top of all that, I'm undergoing some personal transitions that require a whole other list of things to do. . . With all this I know the main thing that has kept me on target has been the ability to organize.
I don't care much for chaos. If things need to get done but aren't getting done, it upsets me. I realize that with change there is often chaos, and so in an attempt to minimize that, I like to shape that chaos into something simple.
I expect that you are busy as well with high priority tasks like deadlines and important meetings to simple, mundane things like getting the car washed or remembering to pick up the dry cleaning. One thing I find extraordinarily helpful in dealing with the deluge of tasks I find I have to complete, is the ever faithful 'to do list'. Maybe I'm more process oriented than most, but I find that the 1-2-3 way of getting things done really keeps me on course. As an added benefit, getting these tasks and commitments out of our conscious minds, which are only capable of holding seven plus or minus two bits of information, and on to paper or our computers or Blackberries, frees up space to concentrate on the present and not worry about the near future.
When I typed in 'to do list' in Google, I was presented with a variety of resources that allow you to prepare your list online. It's hard to believe that we ever used pencil and paper, isn't it? A good old-fashioned handwritten list works fine, but why have a Blackberry if we're not going to really put it to use.
One site that seemed especially easy to use is http://www.rememberthemilk.com/. It also has the bonus of being free. Also free is http://roughunderbelly.com/user/login. This one is persuasive for reward oriented people in that it gives you points when you finish something and it makes you charts and graphs of how productive you are as you complete your tasks.
Another tool I've found a pleasure to work with falls under the heading of brainstorming, creativity and organization. It is a product called Thought Office. I used this years ago and somehow lost track of it (ironic?), even forgetting the name, but its usefulness stuck with me.
I believe that by clearing up internal clutter and organizing our thoughts and tasks, we have a firmer grasp of making the big steps, accomplishing big things.
'What does this all have to do with persuasion, Kenrick?'
I've said this before and I'll say it again many times: Once we can persuade ourselves, whether it be something big like quitting smoking or losing weight, or something as small like dropping off that bag of clothes at Goodwill then we create an internal environment where we are saying what we do and doing what we say. In this, we are working with our other than conscious minds to achieve amazing results.
Kenrick Cleveland teaches strategies to earn the business of affluent clients using http://www.maxpersuasion.com/ persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in http://www.maxpersuasion.com/ persuasion strategies.
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