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An organized life may sound boring to some people and impossible to others. Why should you manage your time and get organized? What does it mean to have a totally organized life?

From experience I have found that being a good leader is not just about being a good organizer. It's also about being a good disorganizer. By that I mean learning to throw things out of balance, because that's the best way to bring about change.

Email, sales letters, email, phone calls, J.O.B., email, kids, conference calls, mentoring and sponsoring, errands, personal time, email, website updating, writing articles, email, search engine positioning, ezine publishing, advertising, email. Oh, and sleep. And did I mention email? Sounds like your day, right? Yours and everyone else's who runs a business part-time around their REAL life.

1. Keep a list of your biggest prospects on a spreadsheet. Develop a system for following up with each one. Keep track of where you are in the follow-up system with each prospect.

I belong to a yahoogroup of coaches and right now the topic is how to get organized. One coach writes that he's using Outlook Express for his email and email address list, Time & Order for his address book, calendar, datebook and to-do list (synchronizing, he says, between PS and daytimer), and MindMappit for brainstorming/lists." Someone replies that they're an infj and to remember to focus on people and relationships. A third one replies they wouldn't want to be a 'type' and there's probably a name for that type, and she uses .etc."

Many people think that a good organizing plan needs to be a complex one. This could not be further from the truth. On the contrary, good organizing is a simple system that works for you - the less complex the better. It is about choosing the best way to organize the "stuff" in our lives, so we will be able to retrieve it quickly and easily.

In the article written by Jackie, a call for a review was made. I make the below comments in the interests of helping out, and I am purposely critical. Not in the hopes that it will anger or frustrate you, but in the hopes that the criticism will help you to better your companies website.

It's that time of year again when we begin thinking about getting organized for filing. Well, actually it's early. I've found that most people won't even look at their past year's receipts until late March or early April.