Comments on: 5 Steps to STAYING Organized http://www.sparkplugging.com/home-office-organizer/5-steps-to-staying-organized/ Helping Home Office Professionals Organize Their Office, Time and Space Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:34:12 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Elizabeth Potts Weinstein http://www.sparkplugging.com/home-office-organizer/5-steps-to-staying-organized/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Elizabeth Potts Weinstein Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:03:02 +0000 http://emomsathome.com/home-office-organizer/?p=7#comment-2 This is incredible important -- a few years ago I hired an organizer who did a great job organizing, but soon everything got out of control. I ended up simplifying the system and changing from horizontal bins (encouraged piles) to vertical magazine-style bins. One more tip -- create a routine. Every day I spend 15 minutes on mail/bills/paper. I set a timer & start. Sort through mail & divide into five piles: Follow Up, Maybe, File, Business File, and Trash/Recycle. Then I spend the rest of the time working on Follow Up bin (includes bills, people to call, forms to fill out, stuff for my daughter's school -- all things I MUST do). Any time left -- I go through the Maybe bin (magazines I might like, programs we might join, people I may want to contact, etc.). Thanks, I look forward to reading more! ~ Elizabeth This is incredible important — a few years ago I hired an organizer who did a great job organizing, but soon everything got out of control. I ended up simplifying the system and changing from horizontal bins (encouraged piles) to vertical magazine-style bins.

One more tip — create a routine. Every day I spend 15 minutes on mail/bills/paper. I set a timer & start. Sort through mail & divide into five piles: Follow Up, Maybe, File, Business File, and Trash/Recycle. Then I spend the rest of the time working on Follow Up bin (includes bills, people to call, forms to fill out, stuff for my daughter’s school — all things I MUST do). Any time left — I go through the Maybe bin (magazines I might like, programs we might join, people I may want to contact, etc.).

Thanks, I look forward to reading more!

~ Elizabeth

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