While writers are experts as organizing words, I’ve discovered that organizing one of the major tools of their trade – a home office – is often an enigma! One of the major myths of organizing is that it will stifle creativity. But how creative – or profitable? – can it be to spend time looking for ...
Staying organized can be a constant battle. The following organizing tips should help you in various areas of your home, even if you are “organizationally challenged”:• Entryway: To avoid chaos whenever you have to leave the house in a hurry, designate a “place” in the entryway for essentials to be ...
Do you run late for meetings, misplace keys, files, important documents, or other items, run afoul of deadlines, or forget appointments? If so, you're not alone. Americans lose/waste nine (9) million hours per day looking for misplaced items, according to the American Demographics Society. If this ...
(This is the second in a series of three articles on "The Organized Move")Does the thought of packing all your belongings make you want to run for the hills? Homeowners who are moving on their own (as opposed to a corporate relocation where an employer is paying all the bills) find themselves with the ...
Keeping your email organized is imperative, especially in corporate or small business settings. When you use email for business purposes, you are essentially handling customer files. Because of the importance of this for even the smallest of businesses, those files should stay as organized as possible. ...
The door and hallway is considered the mouth and throat of the home in feng shui, the ancient Chinese art of furniture placement and energy flow, so if yours is cluttered up with junk, your home is basically choking and you will feel depressed or uncomfortable living there. Appraise the area from a neutral ...
Without the structure of an office outside of our homes, it is easy to scatter anything work related all over the house. We still need to complete our work in a timely and efficient manner. After all, the less time we spend working, the more time we have with our family. An organized home office will ...
Being organized at the office involves managing a few key
activities effectively:
• Emails • Phone • Meetings
The increase in productivity from investing a small amount of
time in efficiently managing these activities upfront is more
than worth the result.
EMAIL MANAGEMENT
Keeping up ...
Getting organized is hard. If it weren't, we wouldn't put it off
until it got even harder. There are hundreds of books out there
on how to get organized; they have ideas on how to work in your
garage, in your living room, in your mind, in your job. They
offer every sort of idea for every sort of ...
Organizing and Cleaning-up Your Electronic Address Book By:
Janet L. Hall
(Editors Note: This article includes instructions for Outlook
Express, Netscape Communicator, AOL, and ACT! users).
Has your online address book become unmanageable?
Do you ever look at all the email addresses and wonder, ...