My Organized Biz

Are you organizing yourself to align with the “green” movement sweeping our country…and the world?  This doesn’t mean you have to go to the extreme and incorporate some foolish ideas that seem popular but actually aren’t affecting the environment at all.
However, by researching how you can incorporate “green” (reusing, upusing, recycling, etc.) into your business, you may attract more customers and clients.  On the other hand, if you emphasize “green to the extreme,” you may turn some people away.  You need a balance.
Look into office supplies and see how you can save, reuse, and recycle.  Are you being most effective …read more

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How do you organize your messages…for business and for family matters?  We live in a multigenerational home, so there are messages for three generations of family. 
Where do we post them so they won’t get lost, so the appropriate person gets them in a timely fashion, so we’ll make sure we’ve acted upon them.
We do have a phone message pad with duplicate pages.  However, it’s only located by the one phone of easy access to all family members.
Other notes are taken on memo pads and placed at a desk or on a bulletin board.  We transfer our appointments to a family …read more

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Do you find it difficult to get back on track with your organizational plans once you’ve been away for several days?  I discovered I was having a challenge getting back to my 20 minutes a day of organization once I returned home from a weekend conference. 
I’d written my blogs ahead, so I was covered there.  I’d taken care of matters in my husband’s and my home business.  But once I returned home, after four days away, I had all I could do to maintain deadlines, catch up on e-mail and phone messages, and get back to my away-from-home job.  Last …read more

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What do you use for better organization?  Each person develops their own methods, sometimes getting ideas from others, incorporating them into their business or lifestyle.
Here are some of that you might be using or could consider:

Notebook and pen or pencil
Lists on your iphone or blackberry
Computer list programs
Filing cabinets
File boxes
Banker boxes
Plastic file boxes
In and out trays on the desk
Piles on the floor around your desk!!
Planners or day books
Rolodex
Calendar on the wall
Journal

What type of filing/organizing tools do you find most useful and effective?

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Once I set myself on the 20 Minutes per day plan to organization, I find myself doing something before I go to bed if I’ve had a busy day and haven’t gotten to my quota.  It’s something like a fear of falling off the cliff if I don’t keep the clutter at bay.
Maybe that’s a reason for sticking with it.  This becomes a habit, a mindset, so that you’re continually thinking about keeping the disorganization out of your life. 
I found, as I awoke the other morning, an idea popped into my mind about a place to store my accumulation of family …read more

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Set goals for your business. Setting goals will enable you to see what you want from your business. I suggest setting daily, weekly, monthly and yearly goals. A daily goal would be: clear out my in-box. A weekly goal might be: make 20 calls to new leads.
Setting these goals for yourself and your business will help you stay on track. It will also give you a broader vision of where you want to take your business. Make sure that your goals are attainable, realistic and that you give them dates. Leaving a goal open-ended is setting yourself up for failure.

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