Posts Tagged ‘bills’
Teeing It Up
In: Systems
17 Apr 2012A golf ball is placed on a tee, so that the ball is in a position that it can be struck cleanly. Teeing up is a step that is taken so the next step is easier. Effective organizing systems need to be, not only a series of stages, but a series of stages that are [...]
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- Tags: accumulation, bills, circulation, teed up
The End of the Mail Trail
In: Paper Management
14 Apr 2010When does mail stop being mail? The second it comes out of your mailbox. That stuff piled up on your dining table is not mail. It’s bills to pay, solicitations to toss, statements to file, magazines to read, and material to review. Each envelope contains paper that requires action. Because those actions are hidden inside [...]
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- Tags: actionable, bills, kitchens, mail
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
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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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- Brian: Great advice! I definitely leave too many things in their envelopes, so this is something I can do i [...]
- 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 [...]