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Modern Mentor

328 GID Use Your Online Calendar to Streamline Scheduling

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3720 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2014

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

One of the few tools that's really better online than off-line is the calendar. For people with complicated schedules, Get-It-Done Guy shares 5 simple ways your calendar program can help you streamline your productivity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Steveer Robbins.

0:04.3

Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:08.8

Calenders, I just love calendars.

0:11.0

No, really, I do.

0:12.4

I have entries in my calendar, things like, you know, lunch with Lady Gaga, or things

0:17.3

like mud wrestling with Zach Efron.

0:19.3

Now, unfortunately, these things don't actually happen,

0:21.9

but when I look in my calendar and I've put them there,

0:24.1

I feel great about my life.

0:26.4

Once upon a time, we ran our lives in accordance with nature.

0:30.1

We lived by the seasons and our daily schedules were fluid and flexible.

0:34.3

Let's grab lunch tomorrow, meant,

0:35.9

let's get together at some point and grab some

0:38.1

meals sometime during the day. And then we invented clocks and industry. And the need to coordinate

0:44.3

large numbers of people. We synchronized our daily time using watches and we coordinated our

0:48.8

yearly time using calendars with pictures of cute kittens and scenes from nature. And of course,

0:53.6

scantily clad women, which conveniently turned the most amazing productivity

0:56.2

tool ever invented into a tool for gender oppression, objectification, exploitation,

0:59.4

and the preservation of patriarchy, and male domination.

1:02.5

I'm just saying.

1:04.2

In recent years, calendars have gone online, without the kittens or the political agenda.

1:09.6

Our online calendars return time management to its

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