How To Print On Post-It® Notes

As found on Tatertots & Jello:

Here’s the easy process:

1. Print the template
2. Stick the Post-it Notes on the page
3. Print what you want on the Post-it Notes — all lined up to match the template
4. Bask in your cleverness

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Use them as tags for gifts, a recurring to-do, label boxes for moving, party games, branding a note to a client, labeling boxes and bins, the list is endless.

Thanks Tatertots and Jello for such a great idea!

Interview With An Organizer: Joyce Woodson

Just about every week I meet some awesome folks! Because I provide a lifestyle service, I try to have as many outstanding professionals in my back pocket that can assist my clients to have a fabulous life personally and professionally.

These interviews are also meant to show that we all have our own style of keeping it together, organized, and productive.  I'm the Organizer but certainly not a know-it-all (if my mom or husband is reading I advise them to stop laughing now).

Here is the latest interview.  Enjoy!

Meet Ms. Joyce Woodson of The Referral Project!

Tell us a little about your company: The Referral Project is an initiative of Joyce Woodson Realty, and uses real estate referral commissions to fund nonprofits anywhere in the country. Joyce Woodson Realty is a full service real estate firm focusing on commercial business in Alexandria and inside the beltway.

Name one thing you're really good at keeping organized in your business? Client responsiveness; I promptly respond to client contacts.

Any specific organizing tool? Nothing specific - I use my calendar religiously to keep track of responsibilities and I take copious notes.

How do you keep track of your networking and clients/profits and expenses? I use my calendar and contact software daily and maintain all written notes until they are transferred to computer software or discarded as unneeded.

How do you stay motivated to keep organized? (book, advice, routine, person) I am not always organized, nor am I organized in everything that I do. However, I found if I could keep a small part of my life organized I would feel like I was in control of my life ... and feeling that sense of control, no matter how small or insignificant, would spill over and create a sense of balance and hope. Everyday is a new day - and if I can find a piece of balance and hope in every day I will keep it together.

What is your biggest organizing conundrum? Bills and taxes. I really do not like paying bills and doing taxes. Most bills are now paid automatically but taxes are a real drag on energy, balance and hopefulness.

If you would like to learn more about Joyce and how she can help you reach your goals in 2014 (or beyond), connect with her on her website The Referral Project. 

Like what you read? I'd love to hear your feedback so please comment below.  Know someone who could benefit from the information? Feel free to share via social media by pressing any of the social media buttons below!

Would you like to have a 1:1 meeting with me so I can possibly have you in my back pocket as an outstanding service or product for my clients? Then email me at andrea_hancock@bdexterous.com.

Ciao!

Making a mistake does not make you an idiot by Tina Bowers

Everyone makes mistakes. But it seems that everyone is also obsessed with making sure no one knows about them. Maybe it's time to take responsibility and earn respect. 

The Latin term mea culpa"means "through my fault." I have looked this term up online and I found it in my trusty hardcover Webster's dictionary. Nowhere did I see the term translated as, "I'm an idiot." Yet, that's what most people think will be inferred by others when they speak those words or any of their brethren like, "Sorry about that" or "I made a mistake."

Trust me when I tell you that many employees share this erroneous mindset (and you know who you are). Admitting fault is not a public acknowledgment that you are a worthless human being and should be fired immediately. Apologizing for an action you took that caused a problem for a coworker does not make you the office weakling and brand you with a scarlet letter. Making mistakes makes you human, and owning up to them earns you respect and maybe even renders you endearing.

However, never admitting responsibility for a mistake is an acknowledgment that you value your own "image" more than you do the welfare of your company. I wouldn't want you working for me.

If people spent as much time and energy acknowledging their mistakes as they do justifying their bad decisions and figuring out how to dodge responsibility, the world would be a much more productive place. You can be sure that the people who are unwilling to own up to their mistakes are the same ones who don't learn from those mistakes. And thus we have a never-ending cycle of denial and repeat.

I've started to see whole groups of people attempt to disguise responsibility as an entity unto itself. My pet peeve is the phrase, "Mistakes were made." As if the mistakes just formed out of mid-air with no human hand involved.

Speaking of that horrid phrase, two social psychologists, Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson look into how the brain is wired for self-justification in the book, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts Their observation is that we create fictions to absolve ourselves of any responsibility, "restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right-a belief that often keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong."

Maybe we should all take a look at that book.

Do you find yourself justifying mistakes at work? Have you ever owned up a to a mistake and were you burned at the stake for it?

Toni Bowers is Managing Editor of TechRepublic and is the award-winning blogger of the Career Management blog. She has edited newsletters, books, and web sites pertaining to software, IT career, and IT management issues. Follow her on Twitter @tbowers928