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  • Why is Staying Organized in My Office So Difficult? - Do I Need a Secretary?
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] There are several reasons for this. One is that much of the furniture and tools we commonly have in the office today are holdovers from the modern office 50 years ago. Some are useful and some are not. Secondly, roles in the office have changed. The primary change came about with the personal computer.


  • Seize the Seasonal Opportunity - To Get Organized and Get Things Done
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] Indoor creative projects are ideal for the winter months when you want to be inside by the fire with a cup of tea. With this in mind, plan a photo project or sort a desk drawer in January or February.


  • Is it a Project Or a To Do? Knowing the Difference Can Help You Get Organized
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] One thing that often trips people up in planning both their time and their space is deciding whether something is a "to do" or a project. Sometimes they think it's just a "to do", so it won't take much time at all or it's a "to do" but then followed by another "to do" not realizing it's a project!


  • Back to School Organizing Basics - The ABC's of Family Organizing
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] At the start of the school year is a great time to establish some basic organizing patterns for the family to stay organized and on time with activities. It's important to follow the KISS principle - keep it simple sweetie! The simpler the better especially when there is so much going on with new classes and schedules at the start of the school year. Following are three key ideas - the ABC's of family organizing - that can form the foundation of an organized household for years to come.


  • The Home Office - Organizing Business Cards by Category Rather Than Alphabetically
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] Typically, business cards just stack up on the desk top, on the kitchen counter or the bedroom bureau. They are not easy to use this way. If you have an assistant, the information may go into the computer for handy use in Outlook or another contact software system. But, what to do if you've just got a stack of cards?


  • Chronically Disorganized - Some Creative Ways to Help You Get Organized
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] If you are chronically disorganized, you may find conventional organizing methods just don't work for you. It's not just getting things neat and tidy, the process needs to be enjoyable and make sense to you.


  • Five Most Important Things For a Home Office to Increase Productivity
    [Home-Based-Business] Small businesses continue to grow as corporate jobs decline. Many who are leaving corporate are starting their own businesses from home. This means having a home office. In this new setting, it's important to have an office set up that is conducive to productive work.


  • Quick Sort & Purge to Reorganize a Kitchen Shelf
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] Without the benefit of moving or renovating, storage space tends to get filled up over time. Whether it's a pantry shelf, kitchen shelf or storage shelf, it can be quick and easy to reorganize the space to make it more efficient.


  • Help For the Emotional Packrat - Creative Ideas to Keep and Let Go
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] When you want to clear the clutter, it can be hard to decide what to keep and what to let go. Often what makes it hard is the emotional attachment. The thing triggers the memory and we re-live the past experience. But, that doesn't mean keeping all of it makes us happier or more satisfied. In fact, less is more and keeping a few special things can be more satisfying.


  • Summer is a Great Time to Sort & Purge Children's Toys, Papers and Clothes
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] Now that school is over for the year, it's a perfect time to do an annual sort and purge of your children's stuff. The three typical categories that continue to accumulate and kids outgrow are toys, school papers & artwork, and clothing.


  • What Categories Should I Use For All Those Household Files?
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] With the amount of paper and information we have these days, it's hard to figure out how to categorize all the various papers and files at home. What I've found is that they fall into four basic categories: Financial, Vital Records, Household, and Personal.


  • Grab 'n Go Organizing Tips to Simplify Your Summer
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] When summer comes we're ready to switch gears and lighten the schedule so we can enjoy outdoor activities more. One way to make life simpler is to have some things already in place, so you don't have to think about it.


  • What's Your Organizing Style?
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] Before you begin organizing, it can be useful to know how you engage with the world. That may sound odd, but it is an important factor. There are basically four modes - people, things, data and ideas. Your preference will determine an organizing style that can work for you.


  • What Does it Take to Get Ready to Organize?
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] You're tired of the clutter and having just too much stuff around, but are you really ready to get organized? Organizing takes time, effort, focus and decision-making, especially if you haven't done it in awhile. In order to make a change like organizing, people go through stages to prepare themselves before they actually take any action. So, it's important to know where you are on the spectrum of change in order to know if you are ready to get organized.


  • The Key to Managing the Mail and Staying Organized - Identify it and Move it Forward!
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] It is often said that the goal in dealing with paper is to touch it only once. This is just not realistic. What works better is to move it forward each time you touch it. That means when the mail comes in, you identify each piece by whether it's an action, something to file or to toss out.


  • What to Do With All Those Magazines and Catalogs
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] Magazines and catalogs tend to pile up and fill our space and our homes. They come in the mail all the time, so there is a continuous flow. Are they really serving you or are you serving them? There are tips that can help you reduce the clutter, organize them and enjoy them more.


  • How to Plan Instead of Procrastinate - Six Tips to Save Yourself the Stress of the Last Minute Rush
    [Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Procrastination goes like this. It begins with you putting off doing it, then it continues to rattle around in your head, remains vague, becomes a monster, and then builds until it's overwhelming. The deadline comes along and you rush to complete the project. Sometimes it's done well and sometimes not. The crisis passes and you get some relief until the next project or event. Planning can save you from the lurking distress of procrastination and the last minute stress to meet a deadline.


  • 10 Reasons Why People Don't Succeed at Clearing the Clutter and Getting Organized
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] There are all sorts of reasons why people do not succeed when they begin a decluttering project to organize an area or room. Following are ten good reasons along with some helpful hints to get over the hurdles and complete an organizing project. The most important one is planning the project in advance so you have enough time and resources to meet your goal.


  • Do You Get Bored With Organizing Routines and Maintenance? Then Shake it Up
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] The satisfaction of getting organized is a great feeling. You've got some systems in place to deal with the mail and bill paying. You've got the closet in order with your clothes organized with blouses separate from pants. You've even cleared out the family room by weeding out the outgrown videos and games. But, keeping it maintained is another thing. How to keep things in order, cleared out and functioning on an on-going basis can be tough.


  • Organizing Teens - Transitions Provide Opportunities
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] Transitions are often opportunities for getting better organized. Teens may be looking forward to what's ahead and need to get their space organized to better support them in those new activities. It's possible, too, that there is some reluctance to let go of the past. While the end of the school year is still a few months away, now is a good time to think about transitions with teens. Creative options can help!


  • Jumpstart Your Spring Organizing - Five at a Time
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] When spring comes, everyone thinks of spring cleaning and organizing. Then feelings of overwhelm can set in. The key to successful organizing is starting somewhere, starting small and starting NOW. Here are five tricks or routines to help you get started. You can do any of them in just a few minutes. These are all "starter" methods to help you break through the resistance and feelings of overwhelm.


  • Five Obstacles to a Beautiful - Organized - Space That Brings Peace and Calm
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] What you often hear are the reasons organizing can make your life more efficient and functional. And sometimes this can be a strong enough desire to bring about change. But, a stronger motivation especially for creative women is to have a beautiful space that brings peace of mind...and often a beautiful space is an organized space. Beauty is highly valued by creative people. What happens is that the process leading to a beautiful space can be prolonged and the beautiful space never comes to fruition. So what gets in the way of that happening?


  • Five Steps to Put Conference Or Workshop Ideas Into Action
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] Conferences and workshops are a great source of new information, inspiration and ideas which can transform your business and your life. But what often happens is we come back with a bag full of stuff and we have little or no time to re-read, re-coup and integrate what we just learned!


  • Cues - Visual and Audible - To Help You Get Organized and Stay on Track
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] People who struggle to get organized and stay on track with their projects and activities effectively, often need cues in place as reminders or attention grabbers. Sometimes, something as simple as using a timer can make the difference to cue you when you need to start and stop a project or when to leave for an appointment.


  • How to Get Motivated to Take Action and Stop Procrastinating
    [Self-Improvement:Time-Management] People often ask "How can I get motivated? I want to do XYZ, but I just can't seem to get around to it." Motivation is different for different people. What works for one, is not a motivating factor for someone else. Knowing what can work for you will help.


  • How to Reduce the Amount of Paper You Print, Use and Pile Up
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] The amount of paper we print from our printers at home or in the office continues to increase. While the information we print initially serves a purpose, it can quickly become useless to us. What can you do to print less, reuse, recycle and routinely purge papers?


  • Your Desktop is the Best Place to Start Organizing - A Cleared Space Brings Rewards
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] The desktop is what greets you when you enter your office. What does that greeting feel like? Is the desktop piled with stacks of paper? Can you find your phone? Do you avoid going into your office because of this discouraging sight?


  • A New Approach If You're Chronically Disorganized and Wondering What to Do About It
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] People often feel frustrated when they can't get organized. They buy storage bins, a new planner, or get a closet redesign. They get started and then just can't keep going. Often they have struggled to get organized for a long time and self-help efforts have failed.


  • What Makes the Difference in Managing Your Time to Get Things Done?
    [Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Do you ever say "I wish I had more time" or "I don't have time for that, I'm just too busy?" Well, we know we can't get more than 24 hours in a day, but what can we do to get things done that we really want to do? It's not about trying to squeeze more things into the day, but doing fewer things of more importance.


  • Changing Behavior to Get Organized - How to Shift Bad Habits
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] Changing behavior is often the most difficult thing to do to get organized. Here are six tips to shift your perspective and change your habits so you can get organized and have a more satisfying life.


  • Making the Most of Your Office or Desk Space
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] Six tips to help you organize your office or desk space. These practical ideas will help you address what's not working and give you a fresh approach to organizing.


  • Managing the Influx of Information - And Paper
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] Information continues to increase, but don't get buried by it. Here are seven tips to help you manage and access the papers and information you need when you need it.


  • Quick Tips For Dealing With Email
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] Email continues to be both a convenience and a time waster. Some quick tips can help you pare it down and use it more effectively.


  • Three Tips to Reduce Stress at the Holidays
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] The winter holiday season should be an opportunity to share time with family and friends - a time to relax and enjoy life. What often happens is we overstuff our days and end up feeling stressed out. Three tips will help you enjoy the holidays more and reduce the stress. It begins with doing fewer things of more importance.


  • Action File Box - To Stay Organized at Home
    [Self-Improvement:Organizing] The biggest problem people have with organizing papers at home is how to get current important papers handy and easy to reference. These might be things like bills to pay, flyers for up-coming events, kid's activity forms, things to do and follow ups. The Action File Box offers a portable solution that is handy and easy to reference.




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