So you have decided to take the family to Orlando for your next vacation. You have done your homework, planned every waking minute and booked your trip far in advance. The big week comes and halfway through the 15 hour days 제주바다뷰숙소 at the theme parks you are too exhausted to get out of bed. Time and time again we have customers that book a week long vacation and want to go to every theme park, water park and dinner show. I understand that they want to get their money’s worth, but this is supposed to be a vacation. While a healthy dose of the theme parks is certainly recommended, a little relaxation will go along way too.
Some of the countries best beaches are less than two hours from Orlando. My favorite is Playalinda beach in the Canaveral National Seashore. This area is 24 miles of unspoiled beach located on the east coast or Atlantic side. While there are restrooms, bring everything else you need with you because there are no stores. Also, do not forget the bug spray as Playalinda beach is next to the mosquito lagoon and they do not call it mosquito lagoon for nothing.
The current fee is $3 per person and free for under age 16. If your lucky, you might even get a glimpse of the space shuttle on the launch pad. Want to see a wild alligator or a bald eagle? Try the Black Point wildlife drive in the Merritt Island national wildlife refuge. This is a self guided 7 mile ride through marshes and estuaries. How about a manatee? There is a manatee viewing platform located on the haulover canal. These are both located within ten minutes of Playalinda beach, just follow the signs. Best of all, they are free. More information.
On the west coast or Gulf side is Fort De Soto Park in Pinellas county. Roughly two hours from the Disney area, but well worth the drive. The beach was named in the top ten beaches of 2005 and the park offers many amenities such as concessions, shelters, grills, fishing piers, restrooms, showers and playgrounds. Incredibly, there is NO fee to enter this park. More information can be found.
Playalinda beach and Fort De Soto park are both highly recommended places to take a vacation from your vacation. So, during your next Orlando vacation, relax and recharge yourself and visit one of our spectacular beaches. Remember, you do not have to do everything in one vacation, you can always come back again next year.
Many executives, in corporations of all sizes, are wrestling with the abundance of communication coming in via E-Mail, and now with the unified communications in play, we are starting to receive our voice messages, faxes and other communications into our email applications.
What can be done to help you with your sanity in managing the Clutter Factor? The clutter factor is your Email Inbox. Stop and look right now! Do you have over 3000 messages in your inbox? Don’t know where to find that important piece of correspondence with a supplier or a client that could win you that very huge deal?
Help is out there. Many corporations use the Microsoft line of products for their day to day email. Microsoft Outlook 2003 is a powerful tool in managing all of your communications. Combined with Microsoft Exchange 2003, businesses today now have a complete solution for all of their communications and also the resources to manage email effectively.
oThe Microsoft Outlook Rules Wizard is a great way to manage your Email and route the messages to a specific folder or location so that you can review them at a later time or never. I have setup my Outlook so that all of my CC’ed messages are routed to a particular folder so that I can filter out those messages and allow me to concentrate on messages that are directly sent to me.
oFlags are another great resource in the Microsoft Outlook 2003 application. Flags can be setup inside Outlook using many different criteria. I use flags such as red for my urgent items, yellow for my not so urgent but still important, and green for those none urgent emails. When you sort your inbox with flags, the non-flagged messages are still sorted by Data/Time when they arrive.
oSpam mail is a huge problem for all organizations, no matter how big or small you are. I recommend the investment in a SPAM solution that allows you the end user to manage your own spam setting and not to rely on your system administrator to do this. IT Matters recommends solutions from SonicWALL to assist organizations of all size in managing the abundance of SPAM email. The most important area about SPAM management is to invest in a solution that does not deliver the SPAM messages to your mailbox. The best solutions out there will send you a single email daily that you can go through to manage your SPAM. This saves you time and productivity dollars for you and your entire team.
oUse your Executive Assistant – if you are lucky enough to have one! This person can reply back to your general inquiries for meetings, information and any other general information. This will allow you to focus on the serious business email and hand over the others that just eat up the majority of your time.
oFile your messages by using a logical approach on how your business works. For example if you work in sales, you may want to file your messages by Year, Month, Client, and Proposal. This way when you have a message from a client, you know where to find it later. This will save you time down the road when finding this critical client or other information. The new Microsoft Search Tool in Windows Vista and Office 2007 will make searching your Outlook even better.
oSend a copy of critical messages to business colleagues, clients, and any other recipients to yourself. This way you have a copy of your email you can file away without having to go through your sent items. With regards to your sent items, also file them away into a different folder every month so you can find that important piece of information down the road, when someone says to you “Yeah, you sent it to me in May”. You can now find it easily.
These are some basic tips that I have used to assist me in dealing with the clutter factor. Email clutter adds a tremendous amount of stress to the any executive, business person or sales representative. Managing your electronic mail will make you more effective and increase your productivity immediately. Stop drowning in all this clutter that is obscuring your view of the coastline.
