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Whole Life Organizing: Resources

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Books

Most are aimed at white-collar workers, but many of the techniques can be used by anyone if you can set aside the examples which don’t apply to you.

Getting Things Done – David Allen

Excellent for capturing and recording needed actions, projects, paperwork and filing, reviewing.
Less strong on how to choose what to do, motivation, procrastination
Very definite on what you need to do to be organized, but flexible on how you set up your system.
The best all-round, if you only read one book, make it this one.

Do It Tomorrow – Mark Forster

Excellent on how to decide what to do and when
Deals with motivation and procrastination

Organizing from the Inside Out – Julie Morgenstern

Strong on organising Stuff and getting rid of clutter
Deals with different personality traits and how they affect organising

Time management from the Inside Out – Julie Morgenstern

Deals with different personality traits and how they affect organising and time management
Her actual system (Time Mapping) is quite strict and doesn’t fit everyone

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey

Classic of the “life goals” type, much good advice

First Things First – Stephen Covey

7 habits applied to time management, very “top-down”
Strong on balancing work and personal life

Online discussion groups

Getting Things Done

Analog GTD (paper-based Getting Things Done)

Do It Tomorrow

Organizing from the Inside Out

Piling vs Filing

Pendaflex PileSmart

The Pile Cabinet

Canadian “Do not mail” service

Canadian Marketing Association

Small and Home Business Workshops

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in Powell River, BC

Whole Life Organizing
Small Scale e-Commerce
100 Business Ideas
Small Scale Marketing
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Small Scale e-Commerce

If you’re interested in selling online – whether you currently have a website or not – this course is for you! Learn about the many different venues and methods available, how you can accept credit cards simply and easily, and how to avoid online scams and frauds.

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Whole Life Organizing

How to get control of the Stuff in your life… paper Stuff, clutter Stuff, activity Stuff, or people Stuff. Whatever it is, you can develop a system that works for your personality and your life.

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100 Business Ideas

to Kickstart Your Imagination

If you are…
Thinking of starting a new business…
Looking for new product or service ideas…
Planning to expand or diversify your business…
then this workshop is for YOU!

* Discover a variety of business possibilities
* Learn and practice idea-generating tools and techniques
* Work individually and in groups
* Create your own unique ideas
* Leave with $$-earning concepts which can work for you

You’ll be exposed to a wide variety of new business ideas in multiple categories. For each category, you’ll hear about some of the pros and cons, the skills needed, and possible legal or regulatory hoops you might need to jump through.

Then, with the background for a category under your belt, you’ll learn about an idea-sparking tool or technique – and get to try it out right then and there. Some techniques will be for you to use individually, others will involve all the workshop participants, and for others you’ll work with a small group of people.

The workshop will be structured so that everyone’s learning style is catered to with at least one idea-tool. Not only that, but every category comes with a set of ideas for you to use as starting points, AND you’ll get to try out each technique more than once. Practice makes perfect!

As you hear about categories of businesses, and practice idea-generating techniques, you’ll naturally come up with your own unique ideas. Working in groups will expose you to ideas you might not have thought of by yourself, and help you to refine and improve your ideas.

So if you’re thinking of starting a business, whether from home or on a larger scale, this workshop will help you improve the ideas you have and come up with many more new ones.

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Small Scale Marketing

Expanding your business?
Want more customers?
Want better customers?
then this workshop is for YOU!

* Discover a variety of marketing ideas
* Apply them to your business
* Work individually and in groups
* Create your own unique ideas
* Meet other small business owners like you

Describe your best prospects, work out the best ways to reach them, write marketing messages, and learn about testing to find out how well your marketing is working. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to get good results, but you do have to think, plan and DO!

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