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My Organized Biz

Archive for the ‘Declutter and downsize’ Category

May 19th, 2008

A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place

(myorganizedbiz.com) - Jennifer is on her honeymoon and thrilled to be featuring guest bloggers in her absence. They’re answering a single question: What’s your most important organizing “rule” that helps you enjoy your work more? You’re encouraged to respond as they’ll be awaiting your comments.
A Place for Everything
Post written by Ann Espo
This old adage is […]

By Jennifer Hofmann -- 3 comments

May 16th, 2008

Friday Feature: Winning the paper clutter war 2/4

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) - This month’s Friday Features are addressing the challenges of paper clutter. Today’s feature comes from the unclutterer.com from the first in their series called Paper Clutter Begone.
They kick off the series explaining a cool product that digitizes your documents - which makes the paper disappear - and progress from there.
Do you […]

By Jennifer Hofmann -- 1 comment

May 12th, 2008

Monday Roundup - Clutter busting ideas for your business

(www.myorgnizedbiz.com) - Clutter - it’s the stuff around you that’s residue from past projects (complete or otherwise). It’s all the things you want to deal with eventually but haven’t had time yet.
This week’s roundup is a shortlist of great recent articles that will help you get some traction with your stuff.
Leo Baubuta’s blog, ZenHabits, […]

By Jennifer Hofmann -- 2 comments

May 9th, 2008

Friday Feature: Winning the paper clutter war 1/4

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) - Paper clutter… It’s both friend and foe. It seems like a good idea to save things until later, but then they have to be dealt with eventually.
May’s Friday Features will be addressing the challenges of paper clutter. Today’s feature comes from Pam Hix as featured on HGTV with some office clutter-reducing ideas.
I especially […]

By Jennifer Hofmann -- 0 comments

May 6th, 2008

Know thyself: The key to getting ahead of your stuff

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) - Have you ever had to dig to find a piece of paper? (Who hasn’t?)
Generally speaking, the stuff on your desk is made up of projects in progress, things “to do” that aren’t urgent, and miscellaneous stuff you don’t have a home for. Beyond that, there are file cabinets and bookshelves and closets that […]

By Jennifer Hofmann -- 4 comments

April 30th, 2008

Wednesday Makeover - Tammy’s multiplying books

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) - Do you have a lot of books?
Maybe you’re the kind of person for whom having books is really important and getting rid of them is almost painful. Or you might just have a lot of them by default and could be ready for a good purge.
My basic belief is that the books you […]

By Jennifer Hofmann -- 2 comments

April 28th, 2008

Monday Roundup - How’d you do on your spring cleaning?

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) - This month I issued a challenge to readers (you) to create a spring cleaning goal for the month of April. Specifically:
1. Pick one thing you want to clean up this month.
2. Post what you’re going to do - here or on your own blog.
3. Then check in at the end of April and […]

By Jennifer Hofmann -- 8 comments

April 24th, 2008

“Visual organizing” group think (and contest)

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) - If one person’s said it, a thousand have. I’ve said it myself. Does this sound familiar to you?
“I’m really visual. If I can’t see something, I’ll forget all about it and it won’t get done.”
At its worst, people who are strongly visual end up piling things on their desks because they need to […]

By Jennifer Hofmann -- 19 comments

April 22nd, 2008

Beyond tasky tasks and cleaning for cleaning’s sake

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) - I’m talking about spring cleaning this month and it can be tempting to think that if you just get your paper under control, everything will be fine. But if you just deal with paper, you’re missing the point. The reality is that paper requires maintenance – and so do you.
You’ve probably heard the […]

By Jennifer Hofmann -- 10 comments

April 19th, 2008

How’s your spring cleaning coming along?

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) - A few weeks ago, I challenged readers to pick a spring cleaning goal for this month that would create a positive feeling in their home office.
Several readers agreed to the challenge and are blogging about it - including ArtBizCoach Alyson Stanfield and Kristen King of BizChicksRule.
It’s not to late to get going […]

By Jennifer Hofmann -- 1 comment