Most of us are trying to find ways to be more responsible in our lives and businesses. Working towards being greener and more sustainable. It’s not easy, especially when we depend on stuff and paperwork. Did we ever imagine our businesses would involve so much paper?
But besides paper clutter, there are other ways to go green in your office, and Dumb Little Man gives us nine. So go take a look and then tell us, what are you doing to make your office more sustainable?

(myorganizedbiz.com) – Sometimes I forget to do things. I have the best of intentions, but I just can’t remember everything. But if I put it on my calendar and then get a reminder, I’m golden. Otherwise, it can be hit or miss. And I really hate that it’s that way.
As I get older (and I am really loathe to say that) I have too many things going on to give everything equal attention. Small things can slip through if I”m not careful. Reminders have saved me more than once.
Today’s link is all about using reminders. Lifehack has a great article …read more

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – Remember when computer file names could only be a set number of characters long? It made it quite hard to name files in a way that you could find them later. And when that restriction was no more, oh how I rejoiced. it made file naming so much easier.
Do you still have trouble knowing what to name your files? And do you name them in such a way that you can easily tell what is in that file? If you can’t tell at a glance, then you’re wasting time trying to find files. Don’t do that to yourself.
This …read more

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – This week I’ve been reading articles at Hack Your Day. In the article we’ll highlight today, Daniel is talking about scheduling multiple large projects.
What Daniel is referring to can also be called batch processing, and Darren at Problogger recently wrote about it, too: How batch processing made me 10 times more productive.
The basic idea is to do things in related batches. Try dedicating a particular day to a project, then the next day tackle a different project. The idea is to enhance your focus on the project and really power through some of the tasks you need to …read more

(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – Today’s link comes from Lifehack.org. I’m reading about setting priorities, and boy is it something I need to work on.
The article talks about different approaches to setting priorities, my favorite of which is probably “Eat a Frog.” The general idea is to eat a frog, or get the most unpleasant task done early, so the worst of your day is out of the way.
But I probably practice the Covey quadrants most of the time, though. Unfortunately I’ve worked with a lot of people who live in the 3rd quadrant – where everything’s an emergency. It makes it harder …read more