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Thursday, August 27, 2015

8 Tips For Efficient Email Management

Many people wonder how to manage emails? With the load of incoming emails increasing with each day it becomes very to keep track to all the emails.

email management is a large subject. It may not be possible to cover all the aspects in a single article but we will try to cover the most important ones for sure. Here are some great email management tips and tricks for efficient email management using Microsoft outlook. We all know MS Outlook is a great tool but most folks rarely use these outlook features which help us improve our productivity and save a lot of time. So essentially these are time management techniques by utilizing email management best practices.

Rules&Alerts

You can create a rule based on the sender, recipients or conversation topic of a given message to always move email to a specific folder. There are multiple options available



Categories

Categorize option is used to color code/ categorize items. Categories applied to a conversation will be applied to all current and future items in the conversation.



Filters

Filer email messages in current folder to to only show certain items, such as unread or flagged items.
There are multiple options available to apply the filter based on our need.




Clean Up: Used to clean up redundant messages in selected conversations.

Clean Up Folder: Remove redundant messages from every conversation in selected folder
Clean Up Folder and Sub folders: Remove redundant messages from every conversation in selected folder and all subfolders


Manage Quick Steps: Create, Edit, Delete and Rearrange Quick Steps


To Manager: Forwards selected message to your manager
Auto generated emails: Move selected emails to a folder after making the email as read
Team E-mail: Creates a new email to your team
Reply and Delete: Replies to the sender and deletes the original email
Done: Marks the email as complete, moves the email to a folder, and marks the email as read



We hope this article is helpful. Please let us know about your comments or queries and we will be happy to respond with clarification and additional tips in future.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

10 Things You Should Definitely Do Before Turning Thirty


A lot of people learn a lot of important lessons in their twenties. These lessons are lessons of life.  The intent of this article is to share these learnings with the younger generations so that they don't commit the same mistakes and are able to apply corrective and preventive measures at the right time in their twenties.


Ten things You Should Definitely Do Before Turning Thirty

  1. Get engaged with a sport that you can practice - To keep you fit.
  2. Learn the life skills - driving a car, swimming, horse riding etc.
  3. Understand the power of compounding and invest your money.
  4. Figure out your short term and long term financial goals.
  5. Get out of the shadows of your parents.
  6. Travel alone & travel with friends. This will add to your life experience.
  7. Develop a habit of reading great books.
  8. Figure out your passion and also figure out what you will NOT do in the next 30 years.
  9. Get a life partner who will stay with you for rest of your life
  10. Last but not the least, learn and practice how to keep your feet grounded. No matter what, don't forget from where you started.
If you are a professional, here are some key professional Do's and Don'ts that you should practice by the time you turn thirty...

  • Never...Engage in lose talk, gossips, take anyone for granted, panic in critical situations
  • Avoid...Writing negative things on e-mail
  • Always...Protect your team, lead from the front and share the credit

Hope these tips are helpful. We would appreciate your feedback and look forward for your comments and suggestions to improve our articles and posts on an ongoing basis.


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Friday, August 21, 2015

33 Great Habits and Fundamentals of Success



10 Great Habits one should follow daily to have a beautiful life


1. Walk - For 45-60 minutes/ day. Practice Yoga.
2. Read - Great books, for example "How To Win Friends and Influence People" and "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
3. Think - Before you speak - Choice of words, tone, volume matter
4. Listen - With purpose, be ready and prepared to learn
5. Eat Healthy, Avoid Junk
6. Pray - Have a attitude of gratitude for the almighty
7. Share - Knowledge, Joy, Sorrow, Wealth
8. Try - New avenues, challenges unless you succeed
9. Plan - Every move of your life, not planning is recipe for failure
10. Care - For humanity, especially your near and dear ones


Also read How To Stop Procrastination and Improve Productivity


23 neat fundamentals of success

  1. Work hard + Work Smart
  2. Be Disciplined
  3. Be Organized
  4. Learn how to communicate
  5. Learn how to negotiate
  6. Know when to speak
  7. Know when NOT to speak
  8. Don't just see, but observe
  9. Don't just listen, but pay attention
  10. Have an attitude for gratitude
  11. Dream
  12. Don't just Dream but Think
  13. Think
  14. Dont just Think, but Act
  15. Believe in Yourself
  16. Share Knowledge
  17. Help Others
  18. Set Goals
  19. Create Plans
  20. Be prepared to fail
  21. Be prepared to rise
  22. Learn to manage your personal finance
  23. Be ready to learn. Always. From people, books, audios/ videos, blogs, forums  - all the time, from all the possible sources