1. Two Good Inbox Management Tips - Innovative use of drag and drop

2. Brilliant Parenting Tip - Goals and Motivation - How to get kids to work together for a common goal

3. Google Your Dinner - Another great idea for Google

4. Multi-Tasking Productivity Booster or Burner - You'll be surprised

1. Two Good Inbox Management Tips - Innovative use of drag and drop

1. Set a rule putting a 10 minute time lag on actually sending your emails after you hit the send button. This is your rethink time in case there's ever changes that need to be made.

2. Receive an email you need to follow up on in the future? Drag and Drop that email into your Task Folder (Outlook only). It will open a new Task with the original email in the text field. Then you can set a date when you want to be reminded in the future to follow up.

By the way these two tips are only 2 out of over 300 and 22 chapters in my new book Conquer Your Email Overload - Superb Tips For Busy People.
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2. Brilliant Parenting Tip - Goals and Motivation - How to get kids to work together for a common goal

Their children wanted a farm bike. So she and Vincent made a deal with them. The children were to pay for a proportion of the bike. Let's say $200. They took a picture of the bike, put one up on the refrigerator (as a faint background image is a good idea) and cut an identical one into 50 pieces. Each chore was assigned a $4 value. The children then would work singularly, or two together to earn a picture piece.

This is a great idea to get children to work together or singularly for a goal. Try it!

Children Chore Chart
By the way, it's been at least 1.5 years since I mentioned our children rotating allowance based job chart. This was the top downloaded file ever from this newsletter. Feel free to use it and adapt it for your family or give it to your friends. It's sure to give you a giggle too!!!

3. Google Your Dinner - Another great idea for Google

4. Multi-Tasking Productivity Booster or Burner - You'll be surprised

We all have too much to do. So we try to do many things at once. Multitasking.

Believe it or not, a growing body of research indicates multitasking erodes rather than enhances productivity. Several studies found people lost time in performance speed when switching tasks and they lost more time as the task became more difficult.

We only have a limited amount of an attention span at any given moment. As people divide their attention between two seemingly simple tasks like reading email while talking on the phone, comprehension, concentration and short term memory suffer. The more difficult the task the more time you lose switching back – that’s why they say never to use a cell phone when driving – it could kill you.

So here are a few tips to make getting everything that you have to do – done!

1. For immediate things – such as in the next few days, there’s nothing better than the old fashioned pen and paper to do list. Keep one of those little notebooks with you always to add and cross off things you need to do.
   
2. Follow through and finish. For example if you call someone and say you’ll send them something – when you hang up the phone – do it then – all the way through to sealing and addressing the envelope. Don’t batch. It could easily get forgotten.
3. Outlook has a wonderful automatic memory prompt Tasks. Tasks live below the sent item folder and you can create any task you like and set a date to be prompted. It can be assigned to someone else or created as a recurring task. (Much more on Tasks in the new book)