CLEARING SOME OF THE DESK CLUTTER - A BEGINNING

How many sticky notes do you have posted in your office?  How 
about  scribbled notes, dates and doodles on bits of paper, 
around the blotter, tacked to the wall, posted on the telephone.

Finding information, when you want it can be quick or time 
consuming.  To make it quick, (let's not waste our time 
hunting through the office), decide on a specific place to keep 
all this kind of information.

It can be accomplished in a couple of different ways.

Everything goes into your day planner, electronic organizer or 
a spiral bound notebook, which you can break down into sections,
or not.

Or, you might like the file folder idea - a prospect folder, an 
idea folder, a contact folder, etc. 

However you do it, decide on a specific place to keep the notes. 

You will know exactly where to go to retrieve the information 
you are looking for when you need it, and you can get it fast.

According to organizing statistics, "The average American will 
spend one year searching through desk clutter looking for 
misplaced objects."  

It is simple to avoid this waste of time. Decide where and how 
you want to record all those little bits of information that end 
up on stickies or scraps of paper.

If you find one method doesn't work well for you, don't struggle 
with it.  Give it up and try another.  

You want a method that works smoothly and efficiently.  Your goal
is to have one place for all this information.  That it is easy 
to input the information, and quick to find.

Now, doesn't that make you feel more relaxed and confident that 
you can find that note you want, when you need it?

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Carol Halsey
Business Organizing Solutions

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