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Home Office Organizer-Organizing Your Home Office For Maximum Efficiency And Effectiveness
Wed 16 May 2007 - 13:20
Home Office Organizer-Organizing Your Home Office For Maximum Efficiency And Effectiveness
By Josh Neumann
Many entrepreneurs lose hours upon hours of productivity
each year due to misplaced items in their home office. There is no bigger
culprit of this than your paperwork.
While the rest of the house is certainly no picnic to keep
clean, a home office can be a nightmare with all the paperwork needed on a daily
basis. Here are some tips to help you keep your office organized in order to
operate your business with maximum effectiveness.
The absolute first thing you need to do is trash all your
junk. Quiet simply, if you are like most people, old and unused paperwork is
likely the culprit for 99% of the garbage in your home office. Trash anything
you are no longer using immediately. Don't tell yourself you might use it at
some point in the future...do it immediately.
Don't just limit this exercise to paperwork, either.
Anything you have in your home office that is not needed for the daily
activities in your business needs to go now.
In addition, sort through your email and delete any old or
unneeded emails (usually over 95% of the mail in your inbox). Be absolutely
ruthless. Anything that you won't be using anymore must go.
Next, organize similar paperwork together to ensure they
stay neat and organized. If you let different categories of papers get mixed up
together, you will absolutely never accomplish even half of what you could in
the course of the day. Instead, you will spend most of your time rummaging
through your papers searching for the one you need, when you could have it on
your fingertips with some simple organization.
Utilize closets and other furniture as well. Often times,
your desk is not the only piece of furniture in your home office. If you do
have a cabinet in your room, make use it as well.
With a cabinet, separate each paper by category and place
like ones in the same shelf. You could have a shelf for your most important
papers, not as urgent papers, and right down to your trivial ones (hopefully you
won't have too many of these).
Label the shelves with color according to their urgency.
For instance, you could have the most important ones labeled orange, less
important ones yellow, and so on.
While these tips may seem relatively simple, you will be
amazed at how much using a
home office
organizer improves just by trashing items you are no longer using and
organizing your crucial ones. Quite simply, most people lose many hours upon
hours of productivity due to disorganized items each year. If you follow this
advice, you will find your effectiveness at work improving, you will get your
tasks done much faster, and you will see a dramatic increase in your income
(that's what matters, right?).
Want to learn more great closet
organizing, and general organizing tips? Try visiting
http://www.organizelifetips.com,
a popular organization site that teaches you not only how to organize your
closet, but how to keep your life in order by keeping it organized.
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