Archive for 2008
Out With The Old!
1 Dec 2008Originally from Matt Baier’s Organizing Works Newsletter, December 2008 It’s only natural to want to make a fresh start in the upcoming New Year. Now is the perfect time to clear out your stuff from 2008 and create space for the new possibilities of 2009. This installment of Organizing Works is dedicated to getting rid [...]
Destination Organization
In: Systems
1 Nov 2008Originally from Matt Baier’s Organizing Works Newsletter, November 2008 DESTINATION ORGANIZATION What does it mean to get organized? To begin with, it involves both a JOURNEY and a DESTINATION. The journey requires the right roadmap and the right vehicle. To stay in a comfortable destination requires the right home and the right payment plan. I [...]
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- Tags: consultation, dollars, economy, good news, habits, organization, roadmap, structures
Contain Yourself!
In: Systems
1 Oct 2008Originally from Matt Baier’s Organizing Works Newsletter, October 2008 CONTAIN YOURSELF! For many of us, I think the real excitement in organizing comes from the opportunity to buy more stuff, namely CONTAINERS. But how can you choose the right container if you don’t know how much you’re containing? Twenty-two years ago when I attended the [...]
Drops in a Bucket
In: Time Management
1 Sep 2008Originally from Matt Baier’s Organizing Works Newsletter, September 2008 DROPS IN A BUCKET Getting the most out of your time requires many of the same principles as getting the most out of your space, including benefiting from a series of small gains rather than expecting one big one. Creating space is my central promise. One [...]
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- Tags: bills, Blackberry, collection, computer, daily mail, landfills, organize, possessions, Post-It, priorities, processing, space, time, To-Do list
The To-Do Deluge
In: Time Management
1 Aug 2008Originally from Matt Baier’s Organizing Works Newsletter, August 2008 THE TO-DO DELUGE Last month I stated that ultimately all paper demands just two imperatives: 1. Act upon it 2. Find it In my last newsletter I focused on ways to find and retrieve files, but the subject of this newsletter will be how to deal [...]
About Matt Baier Organizing
Professional Organizer Matt Baier and his team declutter and organize homes and offices in Stamford, New Canaan, Greenwich, Westport, Darien, Norwalk, Fairfield, Westchester County, and New York City.
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- Clutter Control (49)
- Floor Planning (5)
- Paper Management (25)
- Systems (65)
- Closet (10)
- Time Management (16)
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- Compelements
- To File Is To Find
- The Weekly Round Up
- My Case Against Paper Clips
- What’s Making Your Tasks So Difficult
- What A Waste?
- How Dedicated Zones Work
- Making Multi-purpose Work
- “We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat!”
- The Right Sort
- Lisa Corrado: Matt, you are so right when you say many of what we consider tasks are actually projects. And I real [...]
- Steven: Tasks are simple. If you try to finish the tasks then think that you have completed the project. You [...]
- Elaine Hoffmann: I want to thank you and your amazing team for the great work you have done organizing my basement,at [...]
- Linda Kuppersmith: What a brilliant concept. As a business owner that wears several hats (Sales, marketing, accounting [...]
- Matt: Karen, sorry it's taken me so long to get back to your inquiry. I have used several different smart [...]