Organizational Strategies

Tips, Links and Resources for Organizing and Managing Your:

• Time
• Space
• Stress
• Research & Scholarship

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Organizing Your Time:

• 43 Folders.com: Website focused on personal productivity. Frequent topics include: productivity and time management tips, “life hacks” to improve efficiency and get things off your mind, interesting Mac OS X programs and technologies, ideas about modest ways to improve your life and reduce stress, cool or helpful shortcuts that make life a bit easier.
• Life Hacker.com: "Computers make us more productive." Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live.
• Top Time-Management Tricks
• Battling Procrastination: Efficiency expert shares tips on dealing with procrastination.
• 10 Quick Time Management Tips: Ten quick strategies to help you squeeze more minutes out of your day
• Get Your Time and Your Life Under Control: Advice on getting your life back in control through time management skills.
• How to Manage Your Time
• Managing Your Time: Resources from the Dartmouth Academic Skills Center; include resources for creating a personal schedule/calendar.
• Reducing E-mail Overload and the Stress It Causes: Advice on managing e-mail effectively.
• Responsibility Overload: Advice from your About Guide on avoiding overscheduling and saying 'no' to further demands on your time
• Time Management
• Time Management (for students)
• How to Be a Student: More tips on organizing and prioritizing your life, if/when you're a student.
• Time Management Study: Why We Over-Commit
  Most people have in common an interesting reason for taking on too many commitments.
• Time Management at Work: How to tackle time management problems on the job.
• Tips for Organizing Your Personal Time: List of 13 tips for organizing your personal schedule

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Organizing Your Space:

• 3 Reasons You Can't Get Organized
  Read the excuses we tell ourselves and find solutions to throw out the clutter and reasons to fail.
• 12 Steps to Organizing Your Office
  Do you have to move things out of the way before you can sit down and work? Are there so many papers on your desk that they’re spilling onto the floor? These steps for an office makeover will show you how to organize your desk and your office space
• 25 Tips for Organizing Your Office
  Suggestions in list format for a well-organized office.
• An Office in Your Home
  Design a functional and beautiful home office with these sites for space planning, organization, furniture manufacturers, lighting, storage, desk systems and ergonomics.
• Desk and Filing Systems
  Gain the tools needed to clear out your desk and reorganize your filing systems.
• Easy Tips to Store Papers Organize Children's Paperwork with Six Quick Ideas
  Learn how to organize all of your paperwork effortlessly.
• Organize Your Work Space
• Organize Your Time and Space in Two Minutes or Less
• Organizing Your Work Space: A Guide to Personal Productivity (A Crisp Fifty-Minute Book)
• Pile Cabinet
  Making your file piles work for you.
• Organize Your Office and Improve Your Office Design
  You can have the most attractive, up-to-date office design available and still not be able to accomplish what you need to do unless you organize your office. Improve Your Office Design - Organize Your Office
  The best office design is both attractive and functional.
• Organize Your Office
  12 steps to organize your office will show you how to organize your desk and your office space so that you have an office design you can both appreciate and work.
• Organize Your Office and Improve Your Office Design
  You can have the most attractive, up-to-date office design available and still not be able to accomplish what you need to do unless you organize your office.
• Questions To Ask Yourself When You Want to Keep Your Clutter
  Questions to ask yourself about your clutter.

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Balancing Research & Scholarship:

• Balancing Acts: Tenure-Track Faculty in Learning Communities
• Developing Teaching Skills:
  
• Reshaping Teaching in Higher Education: Linking Teaching With Research
• Strategies for Integrating Teaching, Research, and Service
• Balance Between Teaching and Research
• Balancing Teaching and Research Experiences in Doctoral Training Programs: Lessons for the Future Educator 
• Linking Teaching and Research in Departments
• A Guide to Research Evidence on Teaching/Research Relations

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Managing Stress:

• 8 Strategies for Immediate Stress Relief: Simple modifications in posture, habits, thought, and behavior often go a long way toward reducing feelings of stress and tension
• 10 All-Natural Stress Busters: These 10 tips will help you reduce the stress in your life -- no herbal supplements or medications necessary.
• 13 Signs of Burnout and How to Avoid Them
• Chronic Job Stress Can Lead to High Blood Pressure: Men who worked for years at a stressful job had higher blood pressure levels than their counterparts in less-stressful workplaces.
• Exam Stress Tips: Preparing for the SATs or other standardized tests? If exam stress is overwhelming, read this advice from your Guide on managing exam stress.
• Help Screens Provide School Stress Advice to Students: Thanks to an innovative online resource developed by a counselor education professor, students from middle school to college are just a click away from expert advice for managing these very critical learning issues.
• How to Control Stress by De-Cluttering: This simple system can help you manage stress by de-cluttering and organizing your environment.
• Job Stress Resource Center: Start here - this is your one-stop guide to all the workplace stress resources on the Stress Management site. Includes articles, link libraries, and related forum discussions.
• Office Noise and Stress: How even low level "open office" noise contributes to workplace stress and reduced productivity
• Power Napping Improves Productivity: Taking a post-lunch power nap can be as invigorating as the standard coffee break in terms of workplace productivity and alertness.
• Stress and Coping at Work: How a worksite stress management program helped reduce health care utilization and illness days among employees.
• Stress at Work: This comprehensive (32 page) virtual booklet from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention summarizes stress and working conditions, describes conditions at work that increase stress, offers prevention tips, and more. A downloadable PDF version is available.
• Stress Test - Work Hours Not the Culprit: Factors other than work hours appear to be responsible for the majority of workplace stress, according to University of Arkansas researchers.
• Tips for a Less-Stressed Workday: These tips can help you cut some of the stress out of a typical work day.
• Workplace Stress Management Programs: The pros and cons of workplace-based stress management programs.
• Unconventional Stress Relievers: Some rather unconventional but often effective methods to control stress.
• Workplace Stress and Sleep Disturbances: Worrying about your job during off hours can take its toll on your sleep.

Last updated Wednesday, November 7, 2007