Additional eCourses
- The Natural Professional’s The Deep Clean Mind Dump
- The Natural Professional’s Organize Your Office by Zones eCourse
- The Natural Professional’s Filing eCourse
- Email Triage by Charlie Gilkey of Productive Flourishing
Software Programs
These are likely affiliate links because I think they are awesome.
- Evernote — a note management app
- Dropbox — a cloud drive
- 1Password — a password manager
- MindMeister mindmapping online program. [Note: on the pricing page, at the bottom: Basic FREE, Up to 3 mind maps.]
- Things — a Mac-only ToDo Manager
- gQueues — an online-based ToDo Manager
Audio MP3s
- Guided Relaxation (6:50 min)
- Interview with Kelly McGonigal, author of The Willpower Instinct
- RAP Session Guided Walk Through
- Daily Preview Guided Walk Through
How to Videos
- How To Video series, for ex. Mac short cuts, on Youtube
- Getting Started with Evernote (a 4-part series, they’ll play one after another, ~13 min. total)
- MindMapping with MindMeister
- Getting Started with gQueues
Books
- The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
- 50 Ways to Kick Ass without Kicking Your Own Ass by Shawn Tuttle
- Wikipedia on the pre-frontal cortex (not a book, but Good To Know!!)
Course recordings
October 29
- Audio
- pdf of slides
- Video
October 22
- Audio
- pdf of slides
- Video
October 15
- Audio
- pdf of slides
- Video Note: the audio gets better at 7 minutes
October 8
- Audio
- pdf of slides
- Video
October 1
- Audio only (mp3)
- pdf of slides only
- Video— Note: slide doesn’t change for ~ first 20 minutes. Oops =)
Open Office Q&A recordings
[To Download, Ctrl + click for Mac and Right Click for PC]
November 1 (this is a link to mp3)
Subjects discussed:
- “Containing” the kinds of emails that your allowed to browse
- Creating a week template based on regular activities
- The relationship of Time Containers and folders that you set up in email
- setting up mailboxes (folders in Mac Mail) on an account by account basis
- Use of due dates in ToDo Manager
- connecting Google Cal and iCal
- removing the chat box in Gmail
October 25 (this is a link to mp3)
Subjects discussed:
- Gmail doesn’t have folders
- Having email skip the inbox and go to a specific folder
October 18 (this is a link to mp3)
Subjects discussed:
- Setting up Categories and Queues in gQueues
- Gmail gadget goof in gQueues
- Setting up Tags list
- Video series doing initial tour and set up of gQueues
- Assigning tasks to someone in gQ — check out this video from gQueues on this subject
- Applying mindsets to tasks in the ToDo Manager
October 11 (this is a link to mp3)
Subjects discussed:
- Task Managers: OmniFocus vs Things
- The difference between POP and IMAP email set up
- Email clients
- Managing non-Gmail email addresses in email (+good article on setup of this)
October 4 (this is a link to mp3)
Subjects discussed:
- iCal and Google Calendar sync issues
- How to deal with past blog posts–i.e. to index or not? And, bouncing off of this concept, what to do with current mess of files and folders on your hard drive when setting up a new, organized file system
- Another option for list storage when the lists are primarily idea based. (Spoiler alert: Mindmapping program, links above for program and Youtube tutorial.)
- Where to put bills that need to be paid