Personal Productivity: Evernote for iPad 2

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This is Big! The new iPad has been my constant companion for the last few weeks. It is a great machine for blogging, taking notes, and wonderful as a media consumption device. But with the addition of cameras, the iPad 2 is also a personal productivity bonanza. With the free download of the productivity software [...]

Five Minute Success: Postcard Flowchart

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One of our most popular downloads here at Success Begins Today is our Desktop Flowchart. Comprised of business sized cards, the Flowchart allows you to quickly arrange a sophisticated Flowchart right on your desk. Now we have taken the same symbols and added then to postcard sized cards. This allows you to have more room [...]

Five Minute Success: Create a Recycle Bin

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I sat there and stared at the piles of paper, books, magazines, and just plain junk that had accumulated on my desk over the past few months. I put my head down in my hands and almost started to cry. “I hate clutter,” I cried out to myself. This time I didn’t know what to [...]

How To Sleep Better At Night

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When we go to bed at night we usually have a day full of activities, e-mail, phone calls and appointments rattling around in our heads. If we don’t write them down or commit them to a trusted storage place, they will continue to rattle around and may cause us a restless night. In David Allen’s [...]

Free Download: A Simple Checklist

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When starting any project or planning out our goals it’s great to have a list of needed items and supplies. While there are all sorts of project planners available, I usually like to start with a basic checklist. I created one in MS Word that has two columns, each with 25 rows of check boxes. [...]

Getting Ready For The Unknown

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This weekend I will be facing one of the greatest challenges of the year. I will be competing in my first triathlon. While it is only a sprint distance event, the three different venues of competition bring on an organizational challenge. I have three completely different events to get ready for. I tend to be [...]