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One of the core messages of the book The Seven Minute Difference: Small Steps to Big Changes is that "change happens in an instant - it happens the moment you decide to change". One way you can decide to change is to decide to become more organized in your daily work and in your home life. Here are a few tools that will help you do just that:

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Newsletters

Click here for the November 2006 issue - "Stop Taking Your Customers to Lunch!" (PDF, 819 KB)

The Seven Minute Micro-Actions

One of the main obstacles to change is that many people believe change is too hard and it will require too much effort and too much time. We disagree. We believe if you are willing to implement some of the smallest changes into your life, your life can change in monumental increments. A micro-action is the concept of how a tiny action or effort can make an enormous difference in the outcome.

Click here for a list of 100 micro-actions for home! (273 KB)

Click here for a list of 100 micro-actions for work! (275 KB)

Daily Progress Report

A two-sided PDF document you can print and use daily to track your to-do list and daily progress. You may find it helpful to copy it onto brightly colored paper so it can be easily located on a busy desk. The second page is used to track your voicemail messages.

Click here to download it now! (19KB)

Daily Progress Report with contacts

A two-sided PDF document you can print and use daily to track your daily client contacts and progress. You may find it helpful to copy it onto brightly colored paper so it can be easily located on a busy desk. The second page is used to track your voicemail messages.

Click here to download it now! (19KB)

Contact sheet

A simplified version of the Daily Progress Report. It gives you blank lines to list your to-dos so nothing gets lots in the “busyness” of your day.

Click here to download it now! (9KB)

Grocery list

An editable grocery list where you can organize your frequent purchases by location in your favorite grocery store. That makes it easy to shop because you aren’t traveling from one side of the store to the other. We have started the list - you can add and delete items - now you personalize it to match they layout of your favorite store and save it to your computer. Print multiple copies and put them in an easy-to-access location in your house (like on your refrigerator).

Click here to download it now! (50 KB)

Expense worksheet

An Excel document that can be altered and personalized to use for a budget and expense analyzer.

Click here to download it now! (66 KB)

Open Loops

A PDF form to list all of your Open Loops. Open Loops are all of the unfinished tasks in your life. They cause a constant lack of closure which obviously increases your stress level. Writing your open loops down will significantly reduce the amount of stress you feel and encourage you to start marking them off your "to do" list.

Click here to download it now! (86 KB)