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Common Mistakes
- Not making time to assess the mess. If you can, build in 15 minutes at the end of the day to put everything back where it belongs.
- Confusing the process of throwing away with actually getting organized. Organizing is putting systems in place to find what you need when you need it. Decluttering is about identifying what is obsolete and getting rid of it to make room for what you plan to do next.
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Measuring Productivity
The best gauge of being well organized, "is just the lack of anxiety that comes from a clean comfortable workspace where you feel like things aren't piling up and overwhelming you."
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Categories of Organizing
- Documents. The way you name your files can dramatically improve the organization of both your physical and your digital documents. Be consistent with file naming.
- Group all like office supplies together and considering what role they play in your ...
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The Sources of Clutter
Common sources of clutter for entrepreneurs include business cards, printouts from the Web, and literature from conferences and seminars.
A good way to get rid of clutter is to turn each piece of paper that you're keeping around into an action item in your planner.
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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.
Assistants often excel at taking tasks such as writing your blog posts, handling scheduling, and reminding you about following up with clients but they so...
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Get Organized in a Timed Way
To eliminate distraction, we need to find where we start doing it.
Often it’s when we are organizing and doing the prep work, the stuff required for us to start working. Getting yourself organized in a timed way (about 5 minutes) helps us deflect any possible entry point of distraction.
Remove clutter as an obstacles to goal success
- Assess the space you want to organize and take 5 minutes to picture what you’d like the space to look like.
- Create a big goal, that represents your organizing ideal.
- Spot the thing that you dread most and do it first. It will build momentum and inspire y...
Ways To Cope With Other People's Clutter
- Focus on your own clutter - it's never your responsibility to take care of other people's clutter. It's important to keep in mind that we have our own responsibilities.
- Have a conversation - It's important to raise awareness of an issue that is con...
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