May Tip of the Month

By |2012-11-09T08:39:29-05:00May 3rd, 2010|Categories: Paper Management|Tags: , , |

The most important annual organizing habit is to PURGE YOUR FILE CABINET AFTER TAX SEASON. You’ve accessed all the tax-supporting material you need for 2009 and yes, you will still want to keep it, but there’s no reason it needs to occupy the valuable real estate of your desk file drawer. Last year’s statements fall under what I call Sleeping Files, files you are keeping just-in-case. I recommend transferring these to 2 inch file jackets inside remote file cabinets or banker boxes (or plastic file boxes in a damp basement).

Perfectly Disorganized

By |2023-09-04T08:26:26-04:00February 1st, 2007|Categories: Time Management|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Originally from Matt Baier's Organizing Works Newsletter, February 2007 PERFECTLY DISORGANIZED It often takes 50% or more of the total effort to squeeze out the last 10% or so of quality or whatever it is perfectionists want out of a situation. Not a good investment of time. -Jeff Olson, The Agile Manager's Guide to Getting Organized, 1997

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