It’s perhaps not a style that you find supportive or it is cluttered and just decreases your productivity. Disarray and unorganized papers, files, contact information can really eat up a lot of time that you could be using to make a successful home based business.
Often we end up surrounded by so much outdated materials that our system (if we had one) to find what we need got buried under last years or months papers, notes, files and more. So, first step, take a deep breath and recognize you can do this. Just take one step at a time.Some tasks are quiet obvious yet daunting. But the reward will amaze you. So let’s begin.
Look around your office and find any outdated and broken unusable equipment. Most of us can easily get into the mode of someday (and someday just doesn’t come), I’ll get that old ‘whatever’ fixed. Well in today’s technology everything you buy is outdated before you get it home.
Take what is broken and send it to the proper recycle place NOW. If equipment is old but does not really meeting your needs; what about donating it to your local Boys and Girls Club or YMCA, etc. Take any manuals and extra cartridges that they may be able to use. This first step of clearing space for many starts a process that leads to a calm, professional and personal space.
Next step would be to get some boxes for garbage and have your shredder handy as necessary. Take ONE drawer, remove everything. Discard obvious junk and set the rest aside. Do you have any other junk type drawers? If so, then do the same.
Now re-organize and decide what really needs to be in each drawer, what needs to be immediately accessible and what will need to be available but not in your desk. Sort out the various equipment "rubber bands, paper clips, markers, pencils, staples, tape, and place them into caddies or trays designed to hold desk supplies. Set those things aside.
Office Supply stores have very inexpensive dividers and containers for use in desk drawer and for on top of the desk.
Let’s tackle the desk top itself.
Think of it as Prime Real Estate. It is important to have on the desk top only what you really need. So do you really need the coffee pot there, radio, manuals, reference books, how many file bins, photos…..look it all over and clear your workspace. Something will need to move to a well organized set of shelves. Suggest putting phone book on shelf or I need a calculator on my desk so I keep the phone book under it and out of the way but handy. (Be sure all old out of date manuals g
o in the ‘round bin’). I’ve been shocked personally when I went through my office from top to bottom last time; my how old things build up. And dust bunnies! Yikes!I have two desks, a corner desk for my computer with wings on each side and my main desk. With a rolling chair I can wiz back and forth in a second as needed. Cleaning it up is a process but in the end it will make your work so much easier.
Published by Tana Hamiter - Goes Green - Business Internet/Web Consultant and Mentor
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