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Save Steps And Achieve Organizing Success!

Friday, September 4th, 2009
Taking the fewest number of steps possible to accomplish a task is the key to organizing success. For example, if you’ve got a home office and it’s not well-organized, your efficiency and productivity are likely to suffer. If you have to go across the room to file a piece of paper because that’s where the file cabinet is, I can tell you that nine times out of ten, it probably won’t happen. As a result, papers will sit around on your desk just getting lost in the shuffle and you won’t be able to find them the next time you need them. Definitely not an optimal solution for creating a workspace that supports you.

It’s basic human nature that if something is perceived to take too much work or time or is inconvenient to do; that something probably won’t get done or will fall to the bottom of your list of things to do. In the case of filing papers in a home office, the “save steps and achieve organizing success solution is to move your file cabinet near your desk – or otherwise rearrange your space – so you don’t even have to get out of your chair to file your papers!

- Have an old file cabinet whose drawers are hard to open or don’t slide out all the way, making it hard to reach the back of it? The “save steps and achieve organizing success solutionis to get a new, full extension file cabinet with drawers that glide out easily and completely for total access.

- Papers piling up because you’ve run out of filing supplies? The “save steps and achieve organizing success solution” is to make sure that you always keep some surplus on hand.

- Like to write with a sharp pencil? The “save steps and achieve organizing success solution is to keep a pencil sharpener in, on or near your desk and a wastebasket close by to dump the shavings in when the sharpener gets full!

You get the idea.

Think about what can you do to save steps and achieve organizing success in your own life. If you’re having trouble reaching your goals, please let us know. We’d love to help!