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How to Organize Your Workspace
The Value of a Personal Assistant
Once entrepreneurs have taken the plunge and added an assistant to their payroll, they often don't use that person to their best advantage.
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Where you work affects how you work. Working in a cluttered, messy, or distracting environment will affect your work, and probably in a negative way. If you're like the average knowledge worker, you spend most of your time sitting in front of a computer screen.
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Organize your office
- Start with a purge to create an office that is free of clutter.
- Create a catch-it space for incoming junk to sort through.
Keep your desktop clear of c...
When you spend hours at your desk every day, even the smallest features of your workspace-such as the position of your monitor or the height of your chair-can greatly affect your productivity and even your health. Here's what science says about the best way to set up...
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Your workspace matters
When you spend hours at your desk every day, even the smallest features of your workspace – such as the position of your monitor or the height of your chair– can greatly affect your productivity and e...
Lighting
- The best kind of light you can have in your office is natural light. It helps our bodies maintain our internal "clocks" or circadian rhythms which affects our sleep and energy.
- Poor lighting, whether it's dim lighting or harsh lighting from overhead fluorescent lights, can cause eye strain, stress, and fatigue.
- Don't sit with your back to a window unless you can shade it.
- Don't sit facing a window because that will make reading a monitor difficult.
- If you use a task lamp at your desk, position it so the bottom of the lampshade is at about the height of your chin when it's on.
Plants
- Indoor plants prevent fatigue during attention-demanding work.
- Even just having a window view of live greenery can be restorative and keep us focused.
- A peace lily plant requires little sunlight to survive and you only have to water it when the soil is dried out and is also great for cleaning the air.
- Cacti and aloe plants are other low-maintenance plants to consider.
The general condition of your living environment affects your personal productivity. Working in a clustered and messy environment has the ability to keep you distracted and in most cases, create negative energy. While some might give excuses about their space limitations, there are creative ways to keep your pace neat and organized while staying productive.
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The organized workspace
The general condition of your living environment affects your personal productivity.
A well organized work space makes you feel in control, and clearly focus and define areas that may ...
Tips to organize your office space
- De-clutter your space, empty, shred and get rid of literally any frivolous thing that adds no value to your productivity.
- Organize with colors and labels, to put items in the right places.
- Use storage boxes & containers to help you stay organized.
- Segment your work zones to help trigger a better output.
- Organize your desk accessories: everything from your stationeries, laptop, files, and trays.
- De-clutter and organize your Laptop/Desktop by deleting those folders, pictures or softwares that you don’t need.