Time Management Self Improvement

‘Tis the season for New Year’s resolutions. Some of us are actually successful with these resolutions, but I have read that the majority of us break them within 24-48 hours of making them. This, of course, doesn’t need to happen to you.

Making a resolution usually also involves figuring out the things we need to DO to make the resolution a reality. To take a different spin on things, why not create a ‘not’ to-do list. You knowa list of things you need NOT do in order to become and remain organized. Make the listpick onethen go for it. Here are some of my ideas but feel free to add your own:

I vow NOT to

maintain a cluttered desk
…maintain a cluttered office
have a filing cabinet with no files in it
have a filing cabinet that can’t store even one more piece
of paper
miss deadlines
have ineffective meetings
walk around with vague goals rattling around in my head
look for things to distract me from what I need to be doing
check email every 10 minutes
over-commit
climb into every interruption that comes my way
delay decisions
make excuses for the condition of my office
comment on ‘other’ people’s disorganized offices
go one more day without cleaning out my briefcase
work on everything - except my priorities - first
keep the same ineffective habits going into next year

Good luck and have an organized and peaceful new year!

Copyright Cynthia Kyriazis 2005. All rights reserved.

Cynthia Kyriazis is an organizing and time management consultant, trainer, speaker, coach and author with over 20 years management experience in multi-unit corporations. Organize it, a division of Productivity Partners, Inc. is an organizational training firm she founded in 1995 and has been serving Fortune 500 clients ever since. Cynthia works with business and their employees to help improve performance and realize productivity gains.

Cynthia has appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Kansas City Star and the Legal Intelligencer. She currently serves as Secretary on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), member of the Kansas City of the International Society for Performance Improvement - (ISPI-KC) and consultant to the American Coaching Association.

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