Calming the Chaos, Using Gmail

Email has become an important part of our life.  It is so important but left untamed, it can also take over too much of our time.  If you are like me, and have multiple devices for checking email; smart phone, note book, netbook, desktop and iPad (whew!) just keeping all devices up-to-date can be a full time job!

Time management is important to me so I started looking for a solution.  I researched a simple, readily available option that is also FREE!  My solution was Gmail.  Over the past year Gmail has become my main email platform.  I no longer use Outlook and frankly can’t believe it took me so long to convert!

Gmail offers personalized configuration options, multiple accounts can funnel into one dashboard, each account can be responded to by it’s own address and you never have to delete anything!  Use the power of Google to search for keywords in mails you need.

In addition, once you have a Gmail account you have the passport to dozens of powerful Google applications, documents, photo sharing, calendar, Groups, maps and on and on!

To get started, here’s a slide show of what you can do to begin organizing your life in the Google cloud.

 

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Keeping Your Priorities Straight

organization-issuesThe daily deluge of things we must do never seems to end.  Now with adding social media to the mix we find ourselves doing the fun stuff and ignoring the things we don’t like to do.

Social media takes on a life of it’s own. We want to be social and certainly feel a need to keep up with our online friends, but is this our top priority?

Maybe, but probably not.

What runs me off the tracks is the constant barrage of emails landing in my inbox.  Just the meer sight of them causes me to respond, more rapidly than necessary. Next thing you know I look up at the clock and the minutes have passed through my lifestream, never to be recaptured.

Yet, my pile of paperwork continues to grow. Yikes!

My solution to this problem has been to create file folders in my outlook and rules. My email rules sent the fun and fabulous social networking email directly to the file.  Out of sight, out of mind while I chug away at my money tasks.

Later in the day, I browse the files, attend to the important and let the rest wait until I get around to it!

Controlling my time is an issue I deal with daily.  I have to make a conscience decision to prioritize my work.

If I don’t control it, it will control me.

Social media has become a way of life for many, it’s fun and a great way to expand your ambient awareness, but if it doesn’t pay the mortgage, it shouldn’t be a top priority.

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