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Produce Your Life With Lists

December 5, 2012/0 Comments/in Benefits of List Making, Boost Memory, Decision Making, Fashion, Food, Health, Holidays, Home, Increase Productivity, Learning With a List, List Making, Radio, Reduce Stress, Saving Money, Saving Time, Shopping, Technology, Tool for Success, Travel, TV/by Paula Rizzo

As a TV producer — I think in lists all day long: segment ideas, schedules, questions, shots, etc. Many of the skills I use at work come in handy in my everyday life too. Grocery shopping, looking for an apartment, traveling and even clothing shopping becomes much easier with a plan — and a list!

If you think of your life like a newscast — and break it up into little bite-sized segments — it will be much easier to manage and be successful. I talked to Hilary Topper on her show, “Hilary Topper On Air” about how thinking like a producer will make you more efficient and less stressed in every aspect of your life. We talked about websites to make your life simpler, how to get your holiday shopping done with ease and ways to save money.

Take a listen to her show on Blog Talk Radio and let me know what you think!

Track Packages and Spending With Slice

October 22, 2012/2 Comments/in Apps, Holidays, Increase Productivity, Reduce Stress, Saving Money, Saving Time, Shopping, Technology, Tool for Success/by Paula Rizzo

Life just got so much easier for me. I’m constantly buying things online — especially now that I’m in full on holiday shopping mode. Sometimes its hard to keep track what I’ve bought and when the deliveries will be made. I don’t have a doorman and if there is alcohol in the package then an adult has to be home to sign for it. And that isn’t always possible so either my husband or I end up stalking the UPS or FedEx truck. But no more!

I’ve discovered Slice.com. It’s the perfect away to keep on top of all your shopping and save money too. You can link it up with your email so the website and app will find all of your recent purchases and organize them for you.

Slice will tell you when the package is expected to ship, when it actually ships, where it is currently and when it’s supposed to arrive at your door. There’s even customer service numbers and return policy information attached to each order.

Your history will show all the items that you’ve purchased and categorize them for you so you can track your spending. (This is useful eventho it’s a bit scary to see where all your money actually goes.) And the coolest feature of all — you will be alerted if an item you bought went on sale and that merchant will issue a price adjustment if you ask. That alone is worth signing up for Slice.com.

It’s free to sign up on the website and the app is also free. I’ve been singing it’s praises ever since I found it. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Evernote: An App to Organize Your Life

October 8, 2012/7 Comments/in Apps, Benefits of List Making, Boost Memory, Decision Making, Holidays, Home, Increase Productivity, Learning With a List, List Making, Reduce Stress, Saving Money, Saving Time, Technology, Tool for Success/by Paula Rizzo

I basically tell anyone who will listen to me about how amazing Evernote is. It’s an app and website that keeps track of nearly anything you want it to. A friend who is also obsessed with it once called it an “extension of her mind.” I think that’s pretty accurate. Anything you want to keep track of but might forget — should go into Evernote.

Here’s how I’m using it: Read more

Apps that Save You Time

September 17, 2012/0 Comments/in Apps, Food, Increase Productivity, List Making, Reduce Stress, Saving Time, Technology, Tool for Success/by Paula Rizzo

Musee d’Orsay Clock (Photo credit: PatrickS)

I’m all about shortcuts and saving time, which is why I absolutely love apps. My co-workers and friends are always asking me which apps I like the best. Here’s a bunch that I put together using a SkinnyScoop.com list generator. Please add the ones that you’ve found that help you be more productive!

List for Cleaning Up Your DVR Recordings

September 12, 2012/0 Comments/in Benefits of List Making, Technology, TV/by Paula Rizzo

For a person who works in television — I watch relatively little of it. There are some shows that I won’t miss like “Modern Family” or “The Office” but for the most part — my DVR is filled with fluff that I may or may not ever actually watch. Do you have the same problem?

I’ve decided it’s almost like junk mail. I hang on to some shows that take up precious real estate in the DVR “just in case.” So I just went through and deleted a bunch of shows I’ll never watch and cleaned up the scheduled recordings also. Here’s a list so you can do the same:

1. Go through your current saved recordings and one by one decide if you care if you didn’t watch that show. Be honest.

2. Delete the ones you won’t watch.

3. Now go to your schedule series recordings and scroll through all the shows you’ve set to record whenever they are on. (Mine include The Newsroom, Giada at Home and Oprah’s Next Chapter.) Decide if these are worth keeping or if you constantly delete these recordings when they pop up.

4. Repeat. (You probably weren’t honest the first time.)

5. Feel better about having less clutter in your DVR inbox!

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