Posts Tagged ‘owners manuals’
Don’t Waste A Beautiful Day On Owners Manuals
In: Systems
10 May 2011If you are a true minimalist, toss all your owner’s manuals. You can get that information online. End of post. The rest of us are not so comfortable with that approach, but would still like a simple solution for organizing owner’s manuals. In my experience as a professional organizer, I tend to see one extreme [...]
Under-organizing
In: Time Management
20 Aug 2009As I see it, the whole point of getting organized is to make life as easy as possible so that you can get to the things that matter most. Your organizing energy, therefore, should first go to the items you need to find and use the most. In fact, I believe there are many occasions [...]
Homes for Orphan Items
In: Systems
30 Jun 2009If keeping a tidy home or office seems hopeless, part of the reason may be that not EVERYTHING has a home. Some categories are obvious – clothes go to the closet, books go to the bookshelf, and used coffee cups go to the kitchen sink – but what about that spare switch plate? After years [...]
Perfectly Disorganized
In: Time Management
1 Feb 2007Originally 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 [...]
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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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- 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 [...]