Administrative Assistant's Update

Administrative Assistant's Professional Development for Canada's Office Support Staff It's time to get organized Admins are typically the most organized people in any firm. But even admins can use a few tips to help them stay that way, especially at the beginning of a new year. From CIO magazine, here are some tips. 1. Purge your cubicle Get rid of any stuff that's unnecessary. Papers, stuff in your desk drawers—anything you have duplicates of. It's easier to organize if you start off with less clutter. PM #40065782 2. Change the layout Take a critical look at your space now that it's been purged. Can you change the furniture to make things easier to access? Continued on page 6 Inside iPhone tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Some things you may not know your iPhone can do. High five . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Will fist bumps ever replace the unhygienic handshake? Annoying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 What your co-workers hate about your work style. Hyphen Nation. . . . . . . . . . . 7 Grammar guru George Pearson helps you handle hypens. UPDATE JANUARY 2014 "Little, tiny decisions" You can push yourself closer to your own dreams By Joyce Grant Commander Chris Hadfield has done it all. He had an extensive and varied career with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, culminating with a recent stint as Commander of the International Space Station. But he didn't just command the space station—while he was up in space, working 12 hours a day, he was also able to bring his enthusiasm for space to the people on Earth. He tweeted photos and information about his experiments, made videos about Chris Hadfield inspired schoolchildren in what it was like to live without Dundas Square in Toronto, encouraging gravity, and he made the first them to do the things that would move space-to-earth music video. themselves closer to their dreams. That's right, a scientist created every day to lead himself to achievnot one but two music videos in ing his goals. space. "How are you going to turn yourHis enthusiasm and his willingself into the person you want to be?" ness to put himself "out there" to he asked thousands of Canadian bring that enthusiasm to others, has schoolchildren at a recent event in changed the way millions of people Toronto, Ont. "It's little decisions. (especially children) see the opporWhat food do you want to eat totunities that lie beyond our planet. day? Do you exercise your body? Do He grew up when there were no you get a little bit fatter or a little bit Canadian astronauts. The career stronger today? he'd set his heart on when he was "What books do you read? What nine years old, didn't even exist yet. TV shows do you watch? Little tiny So how does a nine-year-old boy decisions are the ones that turn you go from sitting in a cardboard box in into who you wake up as tomorthe backyard looking at the stars, to row morning. And the morning someone who would become a man after that. And the week after that. who would capture the hearts of And before you know it, you have millions of people around the world? pushed yourself closer to your own It happened in tiny increments, dreams." he says. Small things that he did Credit: Joyce Grant

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