- Copyright
- About the Author
- Author's Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Preparing for Personal Productivity
- 1. Planning for Better Balance between Your Work and Personal Life
- 2. Exploring Accepted Beliefs on Personal Productivity
- 3. Surveying Some Popular Outlook Productivity Systems
- 4. Defining Personal Productivity on Your Own Terms
- 4.1. Making the Most of Every Moment
- 4.2. Finding Your Own Formula for Productivity Success
- 4.2.1. Knowing yourself
- 4.2.2. Considering productivity part of your self-fulfillment
- 4.2.3. Mastering your productivity tools
- 4.2.4. Getting yourself organized
- 4.2.5. Prioritizing your tasks
- 4.2.6. Always having a plan
- 4.2.7. Focusing on what you can do
- 4.2.8. Staying open to change
- 4.2.9. Avoiding information overload
- 4.2.10. Developing your interdependence
- II. Making Outlook Your Key to Personal Productivity
- 5. Mastering Information Management with Outlook
- 5.1. Making Outlook Your Personal Information Manager
- 5.2. Getting Really Comfy with the Outlook Window
- 5.3. Using Outlook's Medley of Modules
- 5.3.1. Dispatching any illusions about the functions of the Mail module
- 5.3.2. Scheduling some time for the Calendar module
- 5.3.3. Getting in touch with the Contacts module
- 5.3.4. Understanding the responsibilities of the Tasks module
- 5.3.5. Remarking on the utility of the Notes module
- 5.3.6. Recording the uses of the Journal module
- 5.3.7. Making short work of the Folder List and Shortcuts in the Navigation Pane
- 5.4. The Outlook Shortcut Keys You Need to Know and Use
- 6. Giving Outlook a Productivity Makeover
- 6.1. Changing the Outlook Startup Module
- 6.2. Customizing the Outlook Toolbars
- 6.3. Adopting a New Point of View
- 6.4. Have It Your Way in Outlook Today
- 6.5. Setting Up Categories That Are Just Your Type
- 6.6. Tailoring the Look of Assorted Outlook Modules with the Organize Pane
- 6.7. Customizing the Module Buttons in the Navigation Pane
- 6.8. Adding Outlook Gadgets for Windows Vista
- 5. Mastering Information Management with Outlook
- III. Taking Control of Your E-Mail Inbox
- 7. Doing Your Initial E-Mail Inbox Housecleaning
- 8. Doing Your Ongoing E-Mail Inbox Housekeeping
- 8.1. Keeping Your Inbox Spick-and-Span
- 8.1.1. Looking at various strategies for effectively dealing with new e-mail
- 8.1.2. Prioritizing and dealing with messages that require a response
- 8.1.3. Creating message rules to automatically organize some of your e-mail
- 8.1.4. Setting your e-mail options
- 8.1.5. Using AutoArchive to automatically clear out older messages
- 8.2. Backing Up Your Outlook Data Files
- 8.1. Keeping Your Inbox Spick-and-Span
- IV. Developing Your Outlook Productivity Practices
- 9. Creating and Sending E-Mail Messages Like a Pro
- 10. Using Calendar to Keep Yourself on Schedule
- 11. Using Contacts to Stay in Touch
- 12. Using Tasks to Successfully Stay on Top of Your Obligations
- 13. Using Notes to Capture Your Ideas
- 14. Using the Journal to Keep an Eye on Your Activities
- 15. Outlook on the Go
- V. The Part of Tens
- 16. Top Ten Personal Productivity Strategies
- 16.1. Know Yourself When It Comes to Productivity
- 16.2. View Personal Productivity as Part of Self-Fulfillment
- 16.3. Master Your Productivity Tools
- 16.4. Get Yourself Organized
- 16.5. Prioritize Your Tasks
- 16.6. Plan for the Future
- 16.7. Focus on What You Can Do
- 16.8. Stay Open to Change
- 16.9. Deal Tactically with Information Overload
- 16.10. Develop a Healthy Sense of Interdependence
- 17. Top Ten Outlook Productivity Techniques
- 17.1. Utilize Every Single Bit of Outlook
- 17.2. Organize Your Inbox
- 17.3. Keep That Inbox Near Empty
- 17.4. Send Really Effective E-Mail Messages
- 17.5. Make Outlook Today or the Calendar the Center of Your Productivity World
- 17.6. Share Your Calendar As Needed
- 17.7. Do Terrific Task Management
- 17.8. Take Note of Every Idea
- 17.9. Use Automatic Journaling to Evaluate Your Productivity
- 17.10. Take Outlook with You Wherever You Go
- 16. Top Ten Personal Productivity Strategies
- A. Personal Productivity Resources
- B. Personal Productivity Self-Assessment
"...so if you have a message for someone, you write it on a piece of papeer and put it on their refrigerator with these magnets. It's just until we get our e-mail fixed."
In this part ...
The two chapters in this fifth and final part, the Part of Tens, reflect the dual nature of this book: Chapter 16 gives you my top ten personal productivity strategies designed to help you visualize how you might go about achieving your goal of greater work/life balance. Chapter 17 gives you my top ten Outlook productivity techniques designed to help make this goal a reality.
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