One of the features that help to increase productivity in my office is two 17″ monitors running off of my main computer and two laptops running along side, all networked together.
This allows me to run the following programs, one on each screen without having to flip back and forth from one program to the other:
1. Maximizer
2. MS Excel
3. MS Outlook
4. MS Word
In an absolutely perfect world I would also run the following on separate monitors:
5. Internet Explorer
6. Acrobat Reader
7. MindGenius
8. MS PowerPoint
Being sensible it could look like:
1. Maximizer
2. MS Excel
3. MS Outlook
4. MS Word
5. Internet Explorer
6. Acrobat Reader, MindGenius, MS PowerPoint
Other added benefits are I can run two MS Excel spreadsheets side by side for comparison or two MS Word documents for editing the original compared to a new document … the applications are endless.
So having said this, I’ll have to see if it is possible to add 2 more video cards to run six monitors.
While this may sound a bit obsessive, I like the idea of having a dedicated monitor for each software that I am running … imagine the click time that I will save not to mention the added concentration of having key programs in full view all the time.
While the world is going Micro Picture and being sold on that they can view their computer, cell phone, tv etc on a screen installed on their thumbnail with the computer imbedded in their skin ( not really, I just invented that ) I am going the other way back to Big Picture.
This will be an A priority on my computer upgrade list.
Friday’s business and product development day, meaning a work day off from working with clients was just what the doctor ordered and it was great to settle back into my home office after being on the road.
I followed through with The Organizational Plan that I wrote about in Friday’s Blog and I am completely on top of my game and have created a system to stay that way.
It sill gets back to the reason that I believe that people don’t create the time to plan out their vision and business plan.
I believe that thoughts are real forces. You create whatever you believe. If you have a limiting belief, you will likely have an unconscious unmet need. If you have a limiting belief and unmet need you will have a limiting emotion.
People who have a limiting belief, an unmet need and limiting emotion do not schedule the time to plan. Why? They believe they don’t have enough time. The limiting belief is driven by the unmet need of safety. The limiting belief combined with the unmet need magnifies the limiting emotion of anxiety. Failure is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
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