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Using Your PlanPlus Online Account From Anywhere at Anytime on Any Device
Believe it or not, personal planners have always been portable devices—even before the days of smartphones, laptops, and tablets. Those thick, heavy binders were a badge of honor to lug to and from work and to meetings. Heavy, yes. Awkward, yes. Nevertheless, people knew that you had “a paradigm of being proactive and synergistic!” Of course, those planners also had some disadvantages. You could lose it—that’s a major problem there. It could take hours to [...]
Make something amazing: How to use time like building blocks
Keeping a task list, or to-do list, is key to the process of getting things done. However, tasks tend to remain as just items on a list until you actually take time to schedule each individual tasks on your calendar—and then focus exclusively on that single task for the time you’ve allotted. That’s called time blocking. Time blocking is a very effective productivity/time management habit that helps you determine how long you’ll focus your time [...]
PlanPlus Online Continues to Improve
PlanPlus Online is pleased to announce a new software release, which adds additional features and repairs the following issues: Enhancements New Custom Field Type (Picture/Portrait) Added color support for all day appointments Custom development project (report) Add sequence option to field groups No longer allowing apostrophe in account names Quick Search Return opportunity ID in Opportunity API Improved logging, new log summary dashboard Removed portrait Icon from Contact detail page. (now avail as custom field) [...]
Coping with the Snooze You Lose
An element of personal and organizational productivity is time management. The change to Daylight Savings Time demonstrates just how important even a single hour can be! Early Sunday morning, the nation’s clocks will spring forward—and even though our brains know that the time on the clock has changed, our internal body clock doesn’t. The consequences of the time change can be serious. Studies, including one at the University of British Columbia, documented a five to [...]
How to develop a high-performance culture
Kayla looked down at her “Manager of the Year” award and smiled. It felt good to be recognized for the long hours and hard work. She knew she couldn’t have done it without the support of her team—but, if you asked her team, they wouldn’t have done anything without Kayla leading the way by changing the culture. Six months ago, Kayla sat with all the other managers in a “leadership summit.” The executives announced that [...]
It’s not who you know—it’s how well you maintain your contact management
Years ago, a ‘contact manager’ was known as a Rolodex—a sort of rotating file device that sat on your desk and contained specially-shaped index cards. Each card held the contact information of a person or a company. A well-maintained Rolodex took a lot of effort and was considered essential to business success. In fact, business management guru Tom Peters once said: “Your power is almost directly proportional to the thickness of your Rolodex, and the [...]
Discover the power of productivity with PlanPlus Online Essentials
The review at the end of the day... Somedays you wonder how you even made it through! The deluge of emails, overwhelming demands for your time and attention, constantly trying to do more with less—all leave you exhausted.You have meetings, phone calls, texts, tweets, blogs, all pulling you into the whirlpool and diminishing your ability to think clearly, make good decisions, and accomplish what you started out to do. You know you need to “get [...]
How to turn your personal digital device into a productive digital device
Zoe’s day looked hectic—so much to get done, and most of it had to be accomplished away from the office—and away from her laptop. For example, on her way to meet with a client, she needed to swing by the pharmacy to pick up a prescription. Then, she had a late lunch with a new client—but had to make sure there was time to pick up the kids after school and start their homework before [...]
The habits of highly inefficient adults
When I was little, mom said she knew I was lying because a red dot would appear on my forehead. It took years before I realized it wasn’t the red dot, but my attempts to hide my forehead, that clued-in my mother. Maybe when you were young, you were told things like: Don’t play in the street… Don’t talk to strangers… Don’t pet the stray dog… Think about it—in order to even let us out [...]
This is the key that unlocks happiness
It turns out that what makes people happy comes down to one small four-letter word... Happiness—“the quality or state of being happy”—has been in the news a lot lately, hasn’t it? Books and articles written, conferences held, memes created… you name it—which is exactly as it should be. We should all be pursuing what makes us happy! I think you’ll agree. A little while ago, I heard about the findings of a study about happiness—and [...]