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Please Don't File This - Delete it
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By Jillian Middleton
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Oh you can file it...but first read it....and if you're notgoing to read it then just delete it.
Radical? Maybe. But how many more "important" items do you wantto save to read later?
The only way I know to avoid clutter is to stop making it - now.
Clutter isn't always papers spread everywhere. It doesn't alwayslook like piles of things left on counters "to do" later.Clutter can also be what we keep in our head as "unfinishedthings to do."
How many of you get ezines (like this one) that you want to readbut you immediately put it into a folder on your computer toread "later."
I know it happens. I hear often two things.
1. Out of the blue one of you will call or email me to tell me,"What a great ezine issue. You must have been looking over myshoulder."
I love that. But I'm always amazed that it can often be an ezinethat I wrote weeks ago and it is just now being read.
2. I can be in conversation with one of you and we're talkingabout follow-up or sponsoring or getting your downline intoaction and I'll ask if you found a particular ezine issuehelpful with that. The response, "Oh I haven't read it yet, Ihave it your folder though.
Here is a trick to "keeping up" that my Online Business ManagerTina Forsyth shared with me. You don't need to pour over everyword - just speed read the document.
Simple solution right. (Most solutions are by the way.)
Many of us think we need to pour over every word and get everylittle nuance. We don't. What we need to do is speed readeverything we believe is of value to us.
Speed read means just that. Force yourself to read the documentquickly.
When you come to something that jumps out at you, an idea ortool that you can use, take a moment right then to decide howyou will use that idea in your business starting right now.
Then use it at least once that day.
For example, let's take this article. The number one idea hereis speed read.
If you think this is a tool or an idea that will help you totake in valuable information as it comes, and avoid clutter andthe guilt of all that is left unread. Then promise yourself thatyou will speed read at least one item that comes your way todaythat you would normally put into a folder to read later.
Ladies and gentlemen change is a process. It does take a while.But it starts now. Not later.
I can hear the chorus, "But I can't. I don't always have time toread my email not even speed read it."
Here is the solution, don't push the send/receive button.
If you don't have time to read and answer your email then you'renot supposed to be sitting in front of it.
You're supposed to be doing something else. Or, obviously you'dhave time to read and appropriately deal with your email rightthen.
Typically the "I'll read it later" turns out to be a calendarissue. How have you planned your day? Did you plan it? Or areyou just chasing it? I hope this quick note was helpful and youwere able to speed read right through it, right now. :)
? 2006 Jillian Middleton All rights reserved.
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