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Smartphone Reminders

Smartphone apps are great to use for reminders IF you make sure to check them regularly! If there is a notification option, you may want to select that so that there is a visual reminder on your phone of pending tasks. Otherwise, your notes may be hidden away in the app which does you no good.

Make a habit of checking these lists once a day, perhaps before you go to bed, to  make sure you have transferred the info to a more permanent, visual place (i.e. a list on your desk) or have completed the task. While you are at it, why not listen to and clear out voice mail, review texts and emails and delete them? Start your phone fresh each morning without a lot of information and reminders clogging it.

Lunch Break: Truly

If you must do errands at lunch time, restrict yourself to doing this only one or two times per week. It's important to take a break simply to recharge, not always to get other tasks done.

Record a Note

Use a voice recorder app on your phone to verbally "jot" reminders to yourself as you go through the day and may not be near a task list or calendar. Just be sure to make a habit of checking these notes regularly!

Gift Box

Keep a "gift box" of small but nice items such as bookmarks, candles, unique but inexpensive jewelry or hot beverage packets on hand to enclose in a birthday card or to give as a gift when an occasion pops up. Sometimes you can find cute things on clearance or at a dollar store, or via online retailers.