by Kate Fehr
Today is the day to dive in and get it done day!
As if we need an official day to share tools and advice on organizing your home office…but we’ll take it. Quite perfectly, this falls in line with our monthly theme of Power over Paper. To assist you with the most significant items related to our home offices, paper and time, we suggest out latest eBook.
Clear & SIMPLE’S TOP TEN Tips for Paper & Time will give you…
- Our favorite tools for managing and mapping out your time
- Our best systems managing your paper in 1 hour a week
- The secret to handling paper rather than piling paper
We’ve said it before and we’ll keep saying it, only 10% of the human population is born with the “organizing gene.” (more…)
by Kate Fehr
Here’s the first step to tackling your paper piles!
Get yourself a vertical container that will hold ALL of your incoming paper for a week. That’s right. You get to put it all in there and then process it just once a week. You can even get one for each family member, or one for personal and one for business, to make it even easier to go through. It’s not really magic, but it will feel like it is when your kitchen counter, dining table and desk are clear of all those stacks.
We recommend the mesh wall pocket.
- It’s Vertical. Vertical = Action. Horizontal = Rest. Using vertical keeps active energy in your papers.
- Wider at the top. This allows for what Marla calls “the fingertip flip” allowing to quickly find a paper you may need.
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