(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.
Post by Vicky White
Did you ever see a CEO sitting with their back to the door?
I didn’t think so.
Much of Feng Shui is intuitive. What CEOs know instinctively, we often need to be reminded of – especially if our desks or our rooms do not lend themselves to being in the …read more

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – Feeling inspried to let go of some of your belongings? This week’s roundup will give you ideas and motivation!
Ariane Benefit has a great collection of thoughts and ideas about how to let go of clutter.
Lori Marrero from The Clutter Diet shares how to get the courage to throw away old manuals (and how to get backup if you ever need them).
Cynthia Ivie at Effortlessly Organized shares how getting rid of your clutter can help others by paying it forward.
Jennifer Chait at Declutter It

www.myorganizedbiz.com – Alyson Stanfield, author of I’d Rather Be in the Studio! is doing a blog tour for her book and will be a special guest on this blog next week.
Alyson coaches people who want to make money from their art to start thinking like a business. Her book is full of go-get-’em ideas – and she’ll be responding to a question I have about following up with propsective clients. She has a great system you’ll want to check out.
She’ll also be giving away a free copy of her book, so find out how next Wednesday!

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – Two makeovers ago, blogger Thursday shared that she has a problem keeping all her files in one place, electronically speaking.
Here’s how she describes it: “While I officially have an office in our apartment, complete with a desktop computer, I regularly work on a laptop as well — I travel, go to the coffee shop or escape to the couch for a more comfortable working session.
“The problem is, though, that I wind up with spare copies of files all over the place: my desktop computer, my laptop, my back up hard drive.”
To the naked eye, it doesn’t look …read more

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – I’m thrilled to be featuring Leif Hansen this week from SparkNW. He’s had quite a lot of press and camera time lately around his work with SoulTech, including a recent feature on the Today Show.
Jen: Welcome, Leif! Now, you’ve got your businesses, Spark Northwest & Spark Social Media, and recently the ‘Soul Tech’ workshop – that’s a lot! How are you spending most of your time?
Leif: I divide it a few ways, but the main focus for me lately is doing consulting and development around new social media. People are more and more interested in things like …read more

At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon, sometimes I miss the good old days. A simpler, kinder time when life wasn’t dictated by the sounds of gadgets or lit by the glow of a monitor screen.
Ahh… but life keeps moving and speed isn’t always a bad thing. So, the b5 business channel bloggers put their heads together and wrote about how to live simply and work in a technological age.
The concepts are diverse, but there’s a common theme: simplicity. Is slow the new fast? Read on to find out.
Simplicity can be a powerful thing. Eric Eggertson points to …read more

When Miranda emailed me about her office, she summed it up with this comment: “…it seems like there’s just too much to cram into the six foot area that I like.”
Miranda, when I look at your photo, “cluttered” is not the word that comes to mind. You’re bring super creative with the space you’ve got with all the plastic bins and shelving. However, you do have an issue that makes your space more prone to clutter: insufficient storage.
The basic theory is this: If there’s a place for things to go, they don’t pile up. If there isn’t, they do. So …read more

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – If you haven’t stopped by lately, there’s some great stuff brewing over at BossHatch.
I particularly liked Jim Gordon’s post Watch Your Language – and how we could all benefit from learning one.
Check it out!
Jennifer