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Control Your Day
Category:
Business/Investing
Publisher: Stone River Solutons
ISBN-10: B00B39SN0Q
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 114
Copyright: Jan 18. 2013
ISBN-13: 9781301135622
Price: $4.99 (eBook)
Provides a complete system to manage email and tasks using Microsoft Outlook and the productivity concepts of GTD made famous by David Allen
Struggling with email? Is your Inbox out of Control? Control Your Day is a new and better way to manage your email using Microsoft Outlook. The system incorporates many of the productivity concepts made famous by David Allen in his book Getting Things Done (GTD). The author provides additional support through a website and Youtube videos. Download the book today to take back control of your Inbox.
Excerpt
Introduction
Are you ready to Control Your Day?
The Control Your Day(CYD)™ methodology uses built-in features of Microsoft Outlook to keep your email messages organized and help you focus on priorities. Ask yourself the following questions to see if, CYD is the right system for you.
● Do you spend a large amount of time moving messages from your inbox and sent folder to subject based folders?
● Does your inbox contain hundreds or thousands of messages that might need your attention?
● Do you struggle with multiple points of focus between your inbox, task list and other tools you use to manage your daily priorities?
● Do you lose track of requests you have delegated?
● Does your email system stress you out?
If you answered yes to any of the questions above, this book will help you learn how to:
● Simplify filing your email.
● Manage incoming emails and tasks.
● Eliminate lost messages by using a series of virtual search folders in Outlook.
The key to the approach is grounded in the simplicity of implementation and use. If you can relieve yourself from using folders and begin to manage tasks directly from your email messages the advantages of CYD will offer positive results.
Benefits of the CYD System, you will:
● Manage all active emails/tasks from one view.
● Eliminate filing messages in subject folders.
● Get to Inbox Zero.
● Receive alerts when delegated tasks are not completed on schedule.
● Lower your Email Stress Level (ESL).
A bit about me
People know me as a productivity hacker. I started with simple index cards, moved to various paper systems and then to hardware/software systems to help organize and control my workload. Reading David Allen’s book Getting Things Done (GTD) was a turning point for me. I became an instant GTDer and never looked back. If you have not read his books, I highly recommend ordering Getting Things Done from Amazon TODAY! You will find many of David’s concepts applied in my system including Inbox Zero, using one collection point, contexts, next actions and the weekly review.
Just to be clear I don’t spend my days building systems, well at least not email productivity systems. I design supply chain systems for top retailers across North America. The CYD system is a part of my everyday life to stay organized. It works for me, it can work for you.
This E-Book includes everything you need to setup and run CYD. I setup a companion website with videos and printable step by step guides to support the book at www.controlyourday.net. Sign up as a CYD forum member and you can post any questions you have about CYD.
Outlook Versions Supported
The CYD methodology works in versions of Outlook from 2007 forward. It works in both standalone and Exchange installations. The step-by-step instructions in this book are based on Outlook 2010 screens, if you are using an older or newer version of Outlook the steps may vary slightly.
How to use this book
Read chapters 1 and 2 to get a basic understanding of the benefits of CYD and the steps it will take to implement your new email management system.
Before opening Microsoft Outlook and beginning implementation of CYD, read the rest of the book and review the step-by-step instructions. I want you to be able to visualize how your new email system will work before you begin the implementation.
At that point, open Microsoft Outlook and go through the step-by-step guidelines and setup CYD. The content is organized so that the changes will not affect how you use Outlook today. One of my early beta testers suggested that I make it possible to run CYD and still allow you to use Outlook as you have in the past so you can run a parallel test of CYD before fully implementing it. Once you are comfortable with the way CYD works, you can then make the switch.
Additionally, the last chapter offers email management tips and best practices for email and time management.
I would like to thank my wife, Suzanne, for all of her support and great feedback along the way and my two boys, who put up with me while I locked myself away nights and weekends to write this book.
Maggie, thank you for the edit and your suggestions to improve the chapter intros. As a long time CYD user, you provided constructive feedback that added focus and clarity to the concepts covered in this book. Thanks to Joan and Sharon for the proofreading efforts and to my beta users that implemented CYD directly from the book to make sure I didn’t miss anything.
Tara, thank you for the wonderful Foreword and for all your help and support over the years through your GTD Virtual Study Group. (www.tararobinson.com)
Author and productivity guru Augusto Pinaud suggested to restructure the step-by-step chapters with a basic and advanced section. The basic features will get you up and running with CYD. The advanced sections do require a bit more technical skills and possibly some assistance from your IT department if you are a corporate user to make a few configuration changes to Outlook and your Windows registry.
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