Archive for the ‘Systems’ Category
Compelements
In: Systems
5 Feb 2012I think I just invented a new word. Com•pel•e•ment |comPELement| (noun) 1 element used to compel one to action. So many organizing efforts are focused on containing items out of sight and out of mind. There are, however, things that we need to make a point of acting on, that should NOT be hidden. Quite [...]
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- Tags: action, bulletin board, To-Do list
My Case Against Paper Clips
9 Jan 2012This isn’t the first time I have attacked a familiar office convention. There was the accordion file, the spiral notebook, and the rubberband.Today, I take issue with the apparently harmless paper clip. Let me start by saying I do use paper clips myself. I believe they have their place. It’s just that I find they [...]
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- Tags: file cabinet, files, paper clips, projects
How Dedicated Zones Work
In: Systems
1 Dec 2011“Dedicated Zone” is an expression professional organizers (like me) throw around a lot, but what exactly does it mean and how does it work? A dedicated zone is an area, as small as a drawer or as large as a room, that one reserves exclusively for one category. The dedicated zone should be determined at [...]
“We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat!”
In: Systems
14 Nov 2011So what does Sheriff Brody’s immortal line from Jaws have to do with organizing? It’s about having the right information before choosing the right solution. In the town of Amity there was a lot of politics and complications involved in fully assessing the scale of the local “shark problem.” When you declutter, you don’t have [...]
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- Tags: declutter, quantity, Systems
Simple Can Be Harder
In: Systems
8 Oct 2011“That’s been one of my mantras—focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” - Steve Jobs Steve Jobs’ passing represents a huge loss, but [...]
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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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- 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 [...]