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Being organized means continuously improving in small ways

HP Instant Ink envelopes
HP Instant Ink is a more organized way to run my business. Returned two empty cartridges yesterday.

 

HP Instant Ink program is a smarter way to run my business. Being organized means continuously improving in small ways. For a nominal monthly fee HP remotely monitors your ink usage and automatically sends you replacement cartridges, as part of your fee.

And with the replacement cartridge is a postage paid return envelope for the empty cartridge. The extra gas, time, and guesswork all disappear.

 

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Real (organizational) life in real time

Hand written thank you note
Two days ago. Dropped off the bag full of glasses with this note to our neighbor (who doubles as our eye doctor) before sunrise.

 

New generation of flood light
Low energy consumption, longer life bulbs are the new normal.

 

Pentair replace pool filter cartridge
Had the replacement pool filter cartridge on hand for the past six months.

 

Real (organizational) life in real time. The list of things we need to attend to is endless:

  1. Order new eyeglasses
  2. Replace burned out flood light
  3. Replace three-foot tall swimming pool filter cartridge

My Optometrist let me bring six pairs of eyeglasses home so Cheryl could pick for me. i’m not a good judge of “style”.

Since our son is spending the weekend preparing for first semester finals, i used this “free time” to do chores, plus:

  1. Draft outline for the contract the client verbally committed to a few days ago
  2. Chose a few workbook page samples to send via snail mail for client’s boss’s review
  3. Finalize rough draft for tomorrow’s meeting (different client) regarding the January keynote speeches

And on and on…

 

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The time to do it is when you don’t need to

ATT Text message screen shot
Heading to Montreal tomorrow morning.

 

Flying to Montreal tomorrow morning to delver a Customer Service Keynote speech that features what i’ve learned from a lifetime at Disney.

Double checked with ATT yesterday about my mobile communication options. They sent me the text above in case i needed help in Canada. The call is free.

But once in Canada, calls become very expensive.

The time to plan for worst case scenario is when you don’t need to.

Of course, there’s free email, text, Facetime, and Skype if you can get a decent wifi signal.

 

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Organized for travel

Apple Store Lehigh Valley Mall
He beat me at chess yesterday…on a Mac, at the Apple Store.

 

Does courage and personal organization go hand in hand?

We probably don’t think about the correlation.

But there’s power in doing it.

For only the second time since owning a laptop (2008), i’m traveling without it.

In it’s place, an iPhone 6. Blogging on a mobile device has finally reached hassle-free status.

The biggest hassle had been inserting photos into a post.

Traveling light is a metaphor and a reality.

 

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Staying organized is a moving target

Apple Watch shopping
Cheryl got to try on some Watches.

 

At the Apple Store “open training” session yesterday, i discovered something i didn’t understand. You cannot store things in iCloud storage that aren’t on your Mac. If you delete it off your Mac, it automatically deletes off of iCloud.

iCloud is not a virtual external hard drive for everything. It only backs up what you physically have on your computer.

Lesson learned. Grateful for the clarification, even though it defeats my hopes.

Dropbox is the likely solution.

Staying organized is a moving target.

Editor’s note (100 days later, today Nov. 19): i am not using Drop Box, nor any other storage platform.

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