Would you ever let a computer make life's big decisions for you? The likely answer is no. Considering only you can truly know what is important to you. Knowing this, what CAN you do to simplify and optimize the decision-making process?

Before that, let's discuss the four types of input that make up any decision:

1) Scheduled Tasks: Meetings and Appointments

2) Unscheduled Tasks: Stepping into your boss's office to ask for a raise

3) Contacts: Information about clients, employees, and competitors

4) Notes: Information regarding your tasks - like a leaked report from a rival company

These four things represent different types of information and it's you who will have to sort each one into it's appriopriate place like unto a calendar, to-do list, or contact list. Then, it's important to collect all these different lists in one place and link everything.

As an example, you'll want to connect your calendar - which includes a list of your upcoming appointments as well as related notes - with your contact list so that you can quickly reach fellow attendees.

Once you have figured out how to competently manage this information, then you can start looking for the appropriate technology to aid your organizational processing.

You can set up the filter function of your email program to automatically route messages where they belong. Statistics say, the average office worker receives about 121 emails per day. Majority of those are time-wasting spam.

So in other words, let technology handle the basic decisions so that you can concentrate on what is important