My Organized Biz

Learning from the suggestions and experiences of others can aid you in your own organizing.  Frequently you’ll find online lists, suggestions, and advice that will prove helpful.  You don’t have to take everything you see and read about, only that which you can adapt to your own business to work more efficiently, productively and profitably.
Check out some of these suggestions for a start:
To-Do Lists: 12 Online Tools for Organizing Your Tasks by Alyssa Gregory
Must-Have Organizing Tools for home and office
Organizing Products
What have you found that’s particularly helpful?
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I find I’m not the only one who likes to organize by color, as I mention in my post, Do You Utilize Colors in Your Organizational Techniques?  I discovered, in reading Rainbow Thread at Crafter by NIght, that others like to arrange by color, too. 
This can be in the office, in your crafting and in the home.  Crafter by Night organizes many items in rainbow hues…pens, notebooks, fabric stash, yarn stash, embroidery floss (as you see in her post), notebooks and clothing in her closet. 
Organizing by color adds light and bright to your room and work area.  You seem more orderly (at least …read more

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I write several blogs about various topics.  Some have daily deadlines, others every other day.  Then some have a specific number of posts per month and others weekly posts.
How will I keep them all organized and know what I have posted and what I haven’t?  How can I keep from repeating topics?  These thoughts ran through my mind as I considered how to do this.
I don’t know what works for others, but I devised a notebook type of organization.  I have small (4 x 6-inch) spiral notebooks, one for each blog.  Then I jot down the date and the title as I publish …read more

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Instead of waiting until you have time to complete an entire task, tackle small ones when you see them.  They may not seem like much, but they’re one less item on your “to do” list.

File mail as it comes in and toss out junk.
File even one piece that accumulates on your desk; for instance, my husband just opened his mail and handed me an insurance paper.  Instead of leaving it on my desk, I’ll stick it in the correct file. 
Haul a box/file/bag to the next room when you head in that direction.
Clear a counter
Take meal dishes to the sink when …read more

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“Mary, finish one task before starting another,” a co-worker remarked at my outside-the-home job.  “If we jump around too much we never finish anything.”
Good advice, I realized, as long as we don’t get interrupted.  I do have a habit of going from one task to another without finishing it and that may keep me from being as organized as I could be.  However, sometimes, life or family or another task interferes with my efforts to finish the first.
I am trying to do better, though, in keeping at a task until it’s finished, particularly if it’s not one that  requires several …read more

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We’re back on track with organizing and back to our various jobs.  The refrigerator is running again, is spic and span clean, and everything sorted and put back.  That’s one way to organize our two-family refrigerator…of necessity.
Do other things get organized in your life…by necessity?  You put it off and put it off until there is no option.  Or you may be forced to change course a bit, but find it’s in a good direction.
Look at challenges as ways to organize, change your plans, declutter, or head in a new and great direction.  I’m not sure the refrigerator set us …read more

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Today, my organized day gets off track for a bit.  Our ailing refrigerator must be emptied (freezer and cooling compartments) so my husband can work on it.  It’s a problem we’ve had before, so should be solvable, but requires emptying items into an ice chest and squeezing them into the downstairs freezer.  Also, we must run out for some ice.
Fortunately, I don’t have to work at my outside-the-home job and only have a business commitment this evening.  I can squeeze writing deadlines in between refrigerator unloadings.  But this is the way life (or refrigerators) can derail our carefully organized plans. 
What …read more

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How do you organize or keep track of your promotions, so that you don’t forget or delay too long the events that you can utilize?

Some business people like to use the computer calendars that pop up when they open their screen.
Others find programs they where they can develop something like a spread sheet for the year, one which carries over into coming years.
Still others put these occasions into a Blackberry or iPhone type of planning program.  One friend has everything at her fingertips on her iPhone.
You also can utilize a notebook planner or schedule book, something like a  Franklin Planner.
Some …read more

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Getting back to my 20 minutes per day of organization was more difficult than I anticipated after being away from home at a business conference for four days.  When I did return home, I had a great deal of writing to catch up on and deadlines to meet.  I’d had four days off from my outside-the-home job, so was on a busy schedule there.
I sort of puttered at my organizing, but I’d broken the flow.  However, instead of simply letting everything fall by the wayside, like I have in the past, when I got distracted, I’m determined to get back into the act.  …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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