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Get Organized: Simple Steps to an Orderly Office



People starting out and entering the business world are aware they are entering a realm that will require their utmost attention to details.

Especially the solo business owner. Organization of your office must be set in place and controlled to maintain your peak productivity, efficiency and peace of mind.

The business professional must be able to easily manage the following ;

  • Space, set up and lay out of the office for maximum and efficient use of lighting, traffic, noise and comfort.
  • Time, manage time efficiently to maintain productivity, develop action plans, define priorities, schedule and address new and old tasks, delegate tasks and activities.
  • Paper, know how to respond and deal with incoming materials for filing, storage and toss plus maintain and protect confidentiality.
  • Clutter, prevent the accumulation of clutter and retain continuous order.
  • Storage, design and organize storage for the business.

Stay Organized in your Home Business

Procrastination and ignoring these areas will result in developing high stress, inefficiency and sense of being overwhelmed. Learning the self-discipline to maintain order in the office environment will relieve you of stress and make your job more enjoyable.

Fortunately, there are answers all around you on the internet, in town or in the city and even people you may know that you can ask or visit to help solve which ever current trouble area you may be having at the time. There are always answers and is just a matter of looking around and asking.

    Tips to Plan your Order

    The following are some tips for the business owner and learning to use research of your available tools, advice and strategies will help boost productivity, efficiency and success;

    Hate-to-Do List, tasks that are not enjoyable should be done and out of the way first. This will help break the habit of procrastination.

    To Do List, prioritize this particular list in order of importance for business related duties.

    Shopping, use second hand furniture to save yourself money until you can afford the new.

    Storage, use old school lockers, second hand items, shelves, stackable totes and crates in the closet to handle inventory and materials.

    Paper, a filing system should be in place for fast and easy access, set a filing hour or designate a family member to help. Check legalities on storage of business information before destroying. Save on paper with digitizing documents and sending as email attachments. Keep copies of all documents.

    Alarm clock, use an alarm clock to set specific time for a specific task as a reminder.

    Planner, leave yourself notes of unfinished tasks, and reminders. Learn to plan ahead.

    Financials, A key filing system needs to be in place to effectively operate your business within your budget. Maintaining up-to-date financial information will help you efficiently manage your cashflow and know immediately if you can take advantage of any opportunities that may rise, or introduce new products to boost incoming cash flow. Safeguard all your financial information with paper copies (hard copy) and digital copies. Finances are the ‘backbone‘ of your business.

    You, take care of yourself as you are the business operator, and need to maintain your health. Maintain healthy eating and sleeping habits, and learn to schedule leisure activities just like a business appointment. Mark it in your Planner! πŸ™‚

    Success follows the Order

    The toast to your business success will rise as long as you the business owner are able to conduct yourself in a orderly fashion, and maintain control over the business environment thus maintaining your own productivity and self content.

    Careful planning, and scheduling of your various business duties will help keep your stress levels to a minimum. Do remember to give yourself ‘breaks’ where you can focus on exercise or meditation for self-care plus take a snack break.

    healthy vegetable sandwich with fruit as side dish

    The shopping for all the office equipment, files, communication tools, and other office furniture and accessories will help bring a sense of freedom, and again, Peace. You will ‘know’ where to find whatever is needed in an instant.

    A good secretary is trained in the office environment and can easily further organize the office for efficiency and productivity, for her/his own duties. Communication between you two will always meet needs of both parties.

    Learning in Motion

    learning to organize home office tools and accessories
    Extra Learning Resources

    10 Highly Organized Home Office Ideas

    17 Office Essentials to Set up an Efficient Home Office

    Plan Your Office Design With RoomSketcher


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    10 Experimental Medical Treatment Discoveries

    Medical research aka clinical research perform tests and procedures in the laboratory. Development of a drug or treatment is created, and eventually tests are done with animals. Shall we explore the 10 Experimental Medical treatment discoveries?

    Once they are at a stage where there are no side effects or fatalities then choosing to move with the most promising experimental treatments into ‘clinical trials’ are planned. These are steps that are all conducted in ‘phases’, starting with research of molecules or elements, development of a drug then testing on animals.

    Once testing is found safe with no harmful side effects, it then moves into the first phase with a small group of qualified people. Qualified people refers to those with specific health issues.

    Begin with a Call – Out

    The health team will continue delivering health care services, and the new treatments or tests ordered by the, or a team of Doctor(s) to measure and evaluate the outcome with help from qualified patients.

    The team must first seek government ‘approval‘ to dispense the medications, and/or procedures. Volunteer patients safety is a mandatory priority.

    A call-out for volunteers is made, usually for the latest promising medical drug or treatments. Would you volunteer or be willing to join a clinical trial with pay?

    the 10 Experimental Medical Treatment Discoveries

    • Canadian study discovers way to make β€˜universal’ organs for all transplant recipients, 2022

    A new first-of-its-kind study out of Canada has discovered a way to make β€œuniversal” organs that could be used in all transplant recipients regardless of their blood type. The proof-of-concept study has demonstrated the possibility of safely converting blood type in donor organs for transplantation, which would make the wait shorter for patients, but also decrease mortality. Read more.

    • Experimental treatment helps patients hospitalized with COPD, 2021

    People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can no longer take in all the air they need. A research team investigated the use of hyaluronan a long-chain sugar that’s naturally secreted by many tissues, including within the lungs. Read more.

    • This experimental drug could change the field of cancer research,2022

    A tiny group of people just experienced something of a scientific miracle: their cancer simply vanished after an experimental treatment.The trial resulted in every single one of their tumors disappearing. Read more.

    • Experimental Brain Cancer Treatment Is a Success, 2016

    Using the immune system to beat cancer is quickly becoming a promising new strategy for battling tumors. A report published in the New England Journal of Medicine say that the same immuneotherapy that is successful against blood cancers also helped a patient with advanced brain cancer. Read more.

    • How an experimental treatment beat a little girl’s cancer,2022

    The first child ever to receive genetically-modified T cells. The experimental treatment cured her leukemia, and the success of her case has allowed all kinds of cellular therapies to be developed. Read more.

    • Experimental approach to treating pancreatic cancer heralded as a success,2022

    A new gene therapy shrank the tumors of a woman with pancreatic cancer. Researchers think it has the potential to benefit millions more people. Read more.

    • Nasal cartilage relieves osteoarthritis in the knee, 2021

    Cartilage cells from the nasal septum can help repair cartilage injuries in the knee — they can also withstand the chronic inflammatory tissue environment in osteoarthritis and even counteract the inflammation. Read more.

    • Electrical zaps can β€˜reawaken’ lost neural connections, helping paralyzed people walk again, 2022

    Scientists identified specific spinal nerve cells that people likely need to regain the ability to walk after paralyzing injuries. Read more.

    • Ebola vaccines in African countries successfully produced antibodies in kids and adults, 2022

    The results of two randomized, placebo-controlled trials analyzing three Ebola vaccine administration strategies show promising results. Read more.

    • In a 1st, baby’s heart defect successfully treated with injected stem cells, 2022

    A baby underwent heart surgeries for a heart defect, and was the first child on record to receive a stem cell injection to patch his heart after surgery. Read more.

    End Phase of the Trial

    Clinical trials are carried out in two groups, and four phases. Think of it as going from small to large numbers of people.

    If the outcomes, evaluations and follow-up evaluations are positive, the new drug or treatment is nationally accepted then there is no further testing needed. The trials are closed.

    A new medication is government approved for public dispensing. Paid volunteers are an important factor to the success of this new drug or treatment. I’m grateful for their courage in taking the trial to give us new medical discoveries.

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    Learn to Explore your Interest

    To start your own journey into entering a Cinical trial you can ask your doctor, or he may even ask if you’d be interested. Adults and children may qualify but it’s important to learn as much as possible about the trial.

    Some clinical trials will Pay, and others may not. Do not be shy to ASK questions. The main goal is to test, and evaluate the outcomes of new medical treatments or medications.

    I think the USA offers payment for clinical trials, and some may offer payment in Canada too. Again, don’t be shy to ask. It’s ok. No animals will be harmed. πŸ™‚

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    Extra Learning Resources

    What is Biomedical Research?

    U.S. National Library of Medicine – Clinical Trials

    Clinical Trials Ontario

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    What is a Viral Infection?

    Germs are microorganisms that can be a disease producing (pathogenic) agent, and we know they are part of our surrounding environment. They are living organisms (aka biologic agents) that are able to invade and multiply in body tissues that can cause local cellular injury.

    Germs have a cellular structure similar to all living things. These infectious germs include bacteria, protozoa, rickettsia, and fungi next to Virus’s. Today, we will explore just what is a Viral infection?


    Traits of a Virus

    A virus is an infectious agent that has the following traits;

    • able to easily ‘filter‘ through ‘bacteria retaining filters‘ due to their small size
    • contain molecules of nucleic acids, either DNA or RNA (like all living things!)
    • a protein coating, or made of carbohydrates, and fatty materials
    • an inability to grow and replicate outside a living cell

    Ok, anyone else thinking about that movie ‘Alien‘ ?

    A virus can be particularly dangerous to humans with these traits. They can easily ‘camouflage‘ themselves, and lie ‘dormant‘ in the body’s cells without calling attention to themselves.

    Initial Response to a Virus

    The virus will invade and affect host cells to act in four ways as follows;

    • may allow the virus to ‘live‘ in it’s cytoplasm where the virus lies dormant
    • may die without reproducing itself
    • may divide and then die
    • is transformed to divide and begins abnormal growth patterns
    covid 19 enters various cells in human body

    The human body’s immune response system gets triggered once cellular damage begins, and can lead to harm of the body’s cells, or damage to cells in other ways.

    A virus can change our cell’s membranes so they’re not recognized by our body causing our immune system to attack our body’s own cells, and get injured or destroyed by our own immune system.

    Infectious Process

    The process for an infectious virus to spread from person-to-person must be in place. Picture a chain, and the links needed to create it’s length. So must a virus have specific links readied in proper sequence to be passed on.

    Covid 19 seeks New Hosts continuously

    The infectious disease occurs if their needed links are present and set in proper sequence, as follows;

    • Link I, the germ must be the ‘causative organism‘. Removal of this link can only occur if the causitive organism is destroyed, or changed to be harmless, while in the host cell environment. Otherwise, it will grow into sufficient numbers, and virulence to destroy normal surrounding tissue.
    • Link II, infectious organisms thrive and reproduce in ‘reservoirs‘ in the human body such as body tissues, and wastes of human, (animals and insects) or in food and water that’s contaminated by the virus.
    • Link III, a ‘portal of exit‘ such as the respiratory tract, reproductive tract, and the intestinal tract. Injury to the skin, or mucous membranes also provide portals of entry and exit (Link V) through cuts, tears, infections, or damaged that organisms can enter or leave. Remember the virus is tiny.
    • Link IV, ‘mode of transfer‘ from the host via the hands, air currents, fomites (inanimate objects, cups, books, cupboards, etc.), vectors (insects can harbor germs, and transfer with a bite and sting), droplets from coughing and sneezing, and any means the pathogens can move from place or host to another.
    • Link V, a ‘portal of entry‘ which the pathogens can ENTER the body of a new host
    • Link VI, a ‘susceptible host‘, one who has no, or poor immunity, or lack protective resistance to overcome the invasion of pathogens for infection. Many are susceptible due to age, poor diet, immuno – compromised health, poor living conditions, poor health, exposure to weather elements, stress to the body.

    Human Body Response

    The human body responds with protective measures to invasive infections with the formation of ‘antibodies‘ and a series of responses from our immune systems starting with symptoms of localized ‘inflammation‘. A covid -19 infection is known to cause a ‘cytokine storm’.

    definition – cytokine storm

    Classic signs of the ‘inflammatory response‘ are heat, redness, swelling, pain, and/or loss of function. These are physical responses of the physiological changes occurring during the inflammatory response stage.

    The location and severity of the inflammation can help identify the source of the response and monitor it’s progression or regression. A viral infection will induce a systemic (whole body) inflammatory response such as headaches, chills, muscle aches, sweating, loss of appetite, and depression.

    body organs are ‘reservoirs’ for Covid virus to thrive – one organ goes down, rest will follow

    The symptoms alone cannot tell us the difference between flu or Covid-19 since both share similar symptoms. It’s important to get tested for both flu and Covid-19. Check to see if family or close friend can pick up, and drop off a PCR test. Symptoms will begin anywhere 2 – 14 days after exposed to Covid-19, and can range from mild to severe.

    Medical concerns with these symptoms are problems that arise such as poor fluid intake, nutrition imbalance, poor comfort, activity intolerance, loss of motion, decline in self-care, frequent urination or defecation, and increased need for rest.

    Controlling Infectious Disease

    The Centre for Disease Control (CDC) recommended the use of ‘Universal Precautions‘ for healthcare teams in 1987. A directive for health care professionals to view all patient blood, and body fluids as potentially infectious, and to be handled as such.

    medical teams use ‘barriers’ to prevent infection for patient and themselves

    I think we have all seen health care staff with gloves, caps, masks and gowns, and maybe face shields. All this is similar to ‘personal protective equipment‘ (PPE) but for healthcare staff at medical facilities.This is all part of ‘Universal Precautions’ practice. Are you comfortable entering a hospital knowing, it’s been sanitized?

    Major goals for healthcare teams who work with infectious diseases are as follows;

    • promote sanitary standards in communities
    • identify highly susceptible persons to infections
    • reduce the chances of getting or spread of infections
    • promote and deliver immunization programs against infectious diseases
    medical team teach people to stay healthy

    Unfortunately we have substandard housing, indoor and outdoor rodents, insects, dust, human waste, contaminated foods and water supplies that are all major sources of infections. Do you make efforts to sanitize your home?

    Virus’s of Today

    Today, we have the SARs-Covid, RSV, and the Flu virus’s going on around us aka the ‘tripledemic‘. Health professionals know that virus’s are continuously evolving, and adapting to their surrounding environment. This includes adapting to bypass the protections from vaccines for the SARS-Covid 19 virus.

    prevent covid infection vaccine and tests thank Health teams

    Health researchers have released near bi-monthly reports that the Covid virus gets more infectious with every adaptation (new generation), and new names are added to the list of this evolving virus. I don’t think I’m alone trying to remember the name of the latest, or the name of the last virus. 😐

    Tiring of Stress Living with a Pandemic

    Pandemic fatigue refers to people tiring of the safety precautions set in place by Health officers, and government officials plus worrying about keeping jobs to insure shelter, food and paying the bills. They are no longer ‘mandating‘ masks but tell us, ‘do your best’.

    It will be your own responsibility whether you stay healthy or get infected. It will be your responsibility whether you wear a mask, wash your hands, and maintain a safe distance.

    Covid Safety Reminder for Pandemic Prevention

    I continue wearing my mask, washing my hands, and keeping my distance. I have family with immunocompromised health issues that these infections could seriously cause further damage or death.

    definition of immunocompromised

    I would rather do my best to Protect my family, friends, and neighbors plus You. So, if you see me with my mask, nod, and don’t mind me. We’re in this together, our scientists are working hard plus studying each new variant to find a cure or improve the vaccine. We can only do our best, to stay alive, stay healthy, have faith in our scientists, and each other.

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    explanation of a virus

    Extra Learning Resources

    What is Virology?

    What is a vaccine? Types, stages for approval

    What to know about antiviral drugs and products

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