Three Steps to Getting your Office Organized

1. Stop & Think & Plan
   Best-laid plans are before you do anything else. Biggest mistake many people make are to go out and shop for organizing gadgets and then start organizing. Bad move. You will not know what you need if you do not plan first. When you plan to get organizied first determine what you will be keeping then find the right organizing product to house the items you plan to keep.
   
   
2. Strategy: The Time Locator
   Make every effort to determine the time it will take to get the job done then add 50 %. Most folks are not very good at determining how much time it takes to accomplish the most basis organizing task. Remember the quote” this will only take a minute”.
   
   
3. Mark Off Quadrants
   When it comes to tackling the office organizing task at hand think visible first. So if you have ½ hour to finish a job, pick the top of your desk, however you may only have enough time to organize that two month stack of old mail that is laying there. By picking what you think you can accomplish in the time allocated this assures that the job will be completed.
   

Rebecca Lang is founder of Clutter Organizers a Professional Organizing company serving business and residential organizing with a specialty in productivity coaching. We serve Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
Member of: National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO)
Washington D.C. Chapter (NAPO) "Golden Circle Member"

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