Leave a voicemail to yourself to jog your memory

So let me paint a picture for you. There you are at 5 PM on a work day. You just finished one hectic day. You are pulling out of the Office Car Park wondering that it must have been one cold architect in New York who figured that, "Hey there is so much land in Phoenix, They don't need covered parking." And then due to some irrational connection that you made to New York, the Architect or his nose, you remember - You didn't send out that document as mentioned in the mental note that you had made during yesterday's game time. Surely you are not going to go back to the Office now? I mean - c'mon, It's never been done before. So instead are you going to red tag that note? We all know how that worked for you in the past. Be assured, you will remember it tomorrow - same time, same place.

So what do you do? I am glad you asked. Call yourself. No don't call yourself names. It happens to the best of us right? Now call your office number. Listen to yourself tell you that you will get back to yourself at the earliest. While you are at it, please notice that nasal twang. And yeah, by all means, make that mental note to change your message. Now did you hear the beep? That's your que to leave a voice mail. Tell yourself that you have been a very bad boy/girl... bad bad bad (Now may be that's a little far fetched) Just tell yourself that you ought to send out that document to whatshisname first thing. Hang up. Now where were we? Yeah - that cold architect. Would it have killed him to put a few shades out there?

Ofcourse check out that blinking light the next day at work. Send out that document. Do check your message. And go ahead. Make that mental note to greet yourself / tell a joke the next time you use this service.

And this works in a lot of ways. Leave a voicemail at home for Personal call reminders. When you have parked your car at the Venetian, call yourself and leave a message as to where you have parked it. That way you don't have to drag yourself around the entire parking garage looking for your Porsche Roadster. (No I don't own a Porsche but made you think that didn't I?)

So go ahead. Talk to yourself. It's cool. Just don't pick up a fight.

Window Logo Keyboard shortcuts to improve Productivity

When Johnny first saw a computer, the only mouse that was around used to wear a red coat and went by the first name of Mickey and every thing that he wanted the computer to do had to be typed in. 

Then the mouse was born. Soon Mankind began clicking their way to glory and when the click wheel was introduced, they began scrolling their way - well, at least to the end of the document.

Johnny did too, until he started noticing the distinctive differences between both of his arms. Something was wrong with his mouse arm (the right one). See Johnny can lift pretty much anything - but only with his left arm. With his right, he tended to drag and and more often than not, he dropped them if he did manage to lift something. (Poor Jane almost lost her toe the other day) 

So he saw this doctor who adviced him to lose the Mouse. "But I can't!", cried Johnny. Its the only way I can get my work done. How else can I browse to- er, a document? 

"Johhny, US-Americans are unable to locate the  Windows logo key because some of us don't have keyboards,but that's not the case with you. You can learn to do the same tasks - faster. Here is list of the most useful ones."

Windows Key + E - Opens Explorer.

Windows Key + F - Open search box.

Windows Key + D - Minimises all open windows to show the desktop and also reverses the effect the next
time.

Windows Key + L - Locks Windows. If you do not have a password associated with your user account, this will not prevent others users from accessing your account information.

Windows Key + M - Minimises all windows but does not reverse the effect when pressed again like Windows Key + D. Instead try Windows Key + Shift + M to do it.

Windows Key + R - Opens the Run Command Box. (once you use your keyboard more you'll need to use this run box more often)

Windows Key + F1 - Windows Help.

Windows Key + Tab - Toggle through task bar buttons.

Windows Key + Pause Break - Shows System properties.

Note: For a conclusive list, check the maker's site.

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