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Do you have a problem staying organized and focused? This is an issue for many people today, at home and on the job.

Adopt the following 7 practices, tips and strategies, and you will find yourself clutter free and focused, organized and more productive.

Let Technology Help You

There are several applications and pieces of software that can keep you organized at home and on the job.

The following apps are some of the most popular for organizing work, handling travel plans, freeing you from text message overwhelm and helping you in other important aspects of your personal and business lives.

• GroupMe
• Track My Life
• Dropbox
• CamCard
• Expensify
• Tripit
• Hshtags
• MailTime
• HabitList
• IFTTT
• Toodledo
• Cold Turkey
• ProcrasterApp
• CoSchedule
• Venmo

List Your Big 3 Every Day

Write down your top 3 tasks for the day. Accomplish or complete these first, before you do anything else.

You will find your productivity soar, and your organizational skills improve.

Do One Thing At a Time

Do you remember a few years back, when multitasking was all the rage. As it turns out, you get more accomplished when you focus on one task at a time.

The human brain works better when it is devoted to one train of thought. Research backs up this belief, showing that multitaskers suffer higher levels of stress and anxiety, and more disorganization as well.

Handle Things Once

Deal with your mail as soon as you take it from your mailbox. Don’t take it inside, lay it down on your desk or counter, intending to deal with it later.

Do the same thing with every physical and virtual object or piece of information you have to deal with. Handle everything one time, and you cut down on the time spent trying to organize your life.

Simplify

Do you really need another purse or pair of shoes? How many sports jerseys are enough?

Do you have too many televisions, smartphones, tablets and computers? How many coffee cups can you drink out of at one time? Take some time to simplify your life. Organization is easier when you have fewer things to deal with.

Learn to Say No

Sometimes organization simply means saying no. The more times you agree to help someone out with a task or chore the more you are putting on your plate.

Just like the last tip, simplifying, learning to say no means fewer obligations and simpler organization.

Clean Your Workstation

Relatively recent research about clutter reveals a simple way to organize your life. Did you know that everything in your field of vision is being processed by your eyes and mind?

You may be consciously writing a report or listening to a conference call. At the same time, your brain is trying to handle any and all visual data that your eyes are processing.

Clear your workstation of everything but the essentials you need to do your job and you will find your ability to stay organized and focused improving.

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A couple of weeks ago my wife was suffering from a bronchial infection (she is great health research for me) and she heard about some stuff called Manuka Honey.

I went to the local health food store and they told me there that Manuka honey is very popular and good for chest and breathing problems as well as other stuff. I bought a bottle of unpasteurized Manuka Honey for $26 (expensive!) and my wife used it.

My Experience With Manuka Honey

This weekend I seem to have picked up a bit of a cold and my wife has been giving me tea with the Manuka honey in it and it is good. I think it is helping but my own anecdotal evidence is not very fair so I found some info from a company called Honeymark and this is what they say:

Active Manuka Honey is used as a natural, therapeutic agent, both internally and topically on the skin. Apitherapy, the name given to treatment with honey and other bee products, has been used by many different cultures throughout history.

New Zealand Manuka Honey has enjoyed growing acceptance by the academic and medical world as of late, and reports of Manuka honey’s unique healing properties have proliferated in the press and media.

Manuka Honey is produced by bees that gather pollen from the flowers of the Manuka tree, which is indigenous to New Zealand. The honey making process is enriched by the pollution-free environment of New Zealand.

This special type of medical grade honey has been found to have extremely powerful healing properties.

It is only thanks to clinical research, predominantly in the last decade, that we are now able to explain many of the therapeutic effects of Manuka Honey when used for medical purposes.

Why Manuka Honey?

Honey has been known for its healing properties for thousands of years. The Ancient Greeks and Egyptians used it and so have many other cultures through the ages.

Even up to the second world war, honey was being used for its antibacterial properties in treating wounds. With the advent of penicillin and other antibiotic drugs in the twentieth century, doctors and other medical professionals were under the misconception that medicine was more effective than honey.

However, recent case studies have indicated that certain types of honey (such as Active Manuka Honey) have been more effective in treating certain ailments, even more so than antibiotics.

In all kinds of honey, hydrogen peroxide is produced from an enzyme that bees add to the nectar. It has been discovered that Manuka Honey seems to have the most healing properties due to plant-derived components.

Active Manuka Honey

Active Manuka Honey has been considered a remedy for many health conditions since ancient times. Manuka Honey is unique to New Zealand and contains non-peroxide antibacterial agents which can inhibit the growth of bacteria that cause slow healing wounds.

There is also a special UMF (Unique Manuka Factor) rating system for Manuka honey, also known as the Active+ rating.

Here are the ratings you will see on the Manuka Honey bottle:

• 0-4  Not detectable
•  5-9  Low levels
• 10-15 Useful levels
• 16+   Superior high grade levels

 

What Is Manuka Honey Good For

Treatment of bacteria – look for a higher Active level 10+

Sore throat – You can mix this with lemon essential oil and take three times a day

Acne and Eczema – Manuka Honey and Tea Tree oil

MRSA – The antibiotic power of Manuka Honey is great treatment for MRSA

Treating cuts and scrapes – Manuka honey’s Antibiotic power is great for treating cuts and wounds

You can take up to a tablespoon a day of the most active types of Manuka Honey and a great way is to take a teaspoon twice a day to space out the beneficial effects, again with lemon essential oil is a nice compliment.

Medical Research on Manuka Honey

Dr Peter Molan, Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Waikato, has proven the natural antibacterial properties of Active Manuka honey during a decade of research at the university’s Honey Research Unit.

In laboratory tests, Active Manuka Honey inhibited the growth of bacteria which causes many skin infections including antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria such as MRSA and VRE.

Recent clinical trials at Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, showed skin infections and wounds infected by “Golden staph” and other antibiotic-resistant bacteria responded well to Active Manuka Honey dressings.

The leading authority on medical research on Manuka Honey is the Honey Research Unit at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.

Dr. Peter Molanore, is the director of the unit and has devoted the majority of his career to understanding the properties of Manuka Honey and its varied applications.

The Honey Research Unit has a very informative website which is essential reading for anyone interested in the applications of this incredibly diverse natural resource.

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I find through emails and website comments that people can be armed with all of the information but still not make real and lasting change in their health and fitness.

We all know that diet and exercise are the only secrets that are really needed but even with this information and a plan most people will not stick to a plan. The reason?

People don’t believe that they can make real change.

Over the years and with all of the bad decisions we will always seem to dwell on the problems that we have caused ourselves and the problems that others have caused and we never seem to think deep down that we can change.

I have been thinking about this a lot lately and I believe that failure in our fitness goals really comes down to the following three factors.

1. We don’t dwell on our successes
2. We don’t trust our knowledge
3. We look at our results today instead of looking a little farther out.

Dwelling On Success

To dwell on our success what we need to do is see where in our life we have succeeded in the past. We all have done great things whether we notice or not.

If you look at what makes you up and what you think about on a daily basis some scientists say that 95% or more of our thoughts everyday are the same as the day before. You can shake this up and start your day by having thoughts about your past successes.

Who cares about dwelling on the past and what use it is I can tell you if you keep remembering the successes that you have then when you are looking at your diet and workouts it will be easier to see what you should be doing and continue it.

Trust Your Knowledge Or Get Some More

I have always struggled with this at times and at other times I act like I should be acting. I will continue working at acting on my what I should but there is one thing that always holds us back, Quick Fixes.

The Quick fix, you have seen these everywhere in the past. The magic diet pill. The secret exercise that will build muscle, the late night infomercial promising easy fast money.

Quick fixes are all around us but the trouble is that they seldom work.

If you want to improve your diet or improve your fitness you can either look through all the info on this blog (How can you not learn from 2500 posts?) or you can just buy the info (I have reviewed lots of products that you can get pretty cheap).

Once you are comfortable that you have the knowledge to get fitter, stronger, and leaner then you have to give yourself the benefit of the doubt that you can do it and all other knowledge is just enhancing what you already know.

Look At Results In a Slightly Longer Timeline

When you are trying to get out of bed in the morning to workout, or putting in those last 5 minutes on the treadmill, or thinking of whether you should do that extra set of bench press or not you need to not dwell on what todays results are.

You really do improve your fitness with every meal and every workout but the great affect of these workouts and meals is found in your body a month from now with every meal and every workout building on each other.

Do the right actions today and tomorrow do the same and by building on each day you will be in a completely different place a month from now.

I have heard a quote many times that we drastically overestimate what we can do in a year but drastically underestimate what we can do in 5 years. It always seems that we have these amazing one year goals that are very unattainable when times are tough, then if we look back 5 years we can see the amazing changes we and others have made.

I know that there have probably been a multitude of books written on motivation and fitness and success but if you keep these three ideas in mind I hope that you, like me, will see the results and belief in your future.

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