Organizing Your Home Office During the Coronavirus
Organizing your home office during the Coronavirus is even harder. Here are some strategies to bring those missing elements home.
Organizing your home office during the Coronavirus is even harder. Here are some strategies to bring those missing elements home.
Organizing large quantities of paper feels overwhelming, but with the right strategy you can blaze through it. After assessing a clients’ clutter they often tell [...]
When should you scan? and when should you shred?, aren’t the first questions you should ask when organizing paper. However, clients often ask these questions [...]
Welcome to the final exciting episode of organizing paperwork clutter at home. In this, the conclusion, we address organizing home archives in Fairfield County CT [...]
Organizing paperwork at home may be easier than you think. There are no shortcuts, but organizing paper is easier is you have a plan.
This video is about organizing files by temperature. A plan for circulation is clarified by identifying 1. Red hot Running Files, 2. Warm yellow Sitting Files, 3. Cooled green Sleeping Files, and 4. Cold blue Dead Files.
Matt visits a File Depot to provide long term file storage strategies alongside owner Michael Kenney with Scot Haney of Better Connecticut.
My plan for organizing receipts is actually a perfect example of my ultimate organizing approach.
Matt appears on Better Connecticut, with his accountant, Lisa Germann to talk about organizing archives after tax season with hosts, Scot and Kara.
I posted this video about this time last year, but it's worth repeating. I have since come to the conclusion that rotating your files is the number one annual organizing habit.
Too many categories can actually make you more disorganized than having none at all. There is a point of diminishing returns on categories.
Our clients often get ahead of themselves. I mean WAY ahead of themselves. We may be looking at 30 bags and boxes of papers and the client will ask, “Do you recommend color-coding my files?” What I’m really hearing in their voices is “CAN we color-code my files PLEASE?” It’s as if a magical rainbow of colors will make the 30 bags and boxes disappear.
I have written a lot on the subject of perfectionism-as-a-barrier. People often confuse organizing with a quest to be perfect and that’s a mistake. Organizing is more about managing priorities effectively. That said, although we usually don’t have the time to be perfect, there are times when managing priorities benefits from pushing things to 100%. Here are three examples.
It is impossible to stay organized without action. If there’s no action on paying bills, the mail will pile up; if theres no action on the laundry, the clothes will pile up; etc. Certain points of compulsion are necessary to ensure that these actions happen.
There is a time and a place for three ring binders. Simply put, when you need to bind reference material, you should use one and when you don’t need to bind reference material you shouldn’t. So what would be some good examples?
Much has been written recently about a study done by Kathleen Vohs, at the University of Minnesota, that finds a messy work environment promotes creative thinking. Here’s my two cents. I’m a fan of evidence through science, but I am skeptical of these results. Furthermore, I would argue that creativity is rarely the biggest challenge.