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Declutter and Organize Your Home Office For Success
By Tammy Embrich

 

Is your work at home office space organized? Is your desk neat and tidy? Can you find specific business documents on your computer with ease?

Or...Are you completely distracted by the mess in front of you as you work? Are you overwhelmed with that home desk clutter?

If you answered "no" to the first three questions and "yes" to the last two...you need a work at home office space overhaul. For some people, it is normal to have three or four stacks of paperwork scattered on top their desk.

While for others, those stacks of papers are a real eyesore! A messy, unorganized work area often makes you distracted and unfocused. It is a well-known fact that an organized home office always results in a more productive home business. That same organized work area also saves time and money.

For Example:

If you're wasting time constantly searching your computer for lost documents, doesn't this cost you time and money? The same goes for searching for that one piece of paper among the endless disorderly accumulation displayed in front of you.

So, wouldn't you much rather have a nice, organized home office with everything in it's place? Of course you would!

Unless...stacks of paper, lost documents on your desktop, and mounds of notes cluttering your desk is your cup of tea.

Below are just a few organization tips for your home business office:

1. If you don't own a file cabinet, it's best to invest in one. Obtain a good filing system. Keep a drawer for your household items and a drawer for your home business items. Always keep household and business separate.

2. Keep a business-to-do list on your desk at all times. Follow that list each and everyday, checking off tasks as they are completed. Make a list and stick to it.

3. Keep your files and documents in order on your desk top with their appropriate labels for ease of searching.

4. Set specific business hours. Set aside this time for your home business. Also set a specific time to do your household work. Sure, there will always be things that will come up...you have to run to the store and get milk, or you have to run to the vet. Always get right back on your schedule after these home chores are completed. No exceptions!

5. Look around your office. Is there anything on your desk, in your drawers, or up on a shelf that you don't have any use for anymore? If so, throw it out. Pitch anything you don't need or use. Why keep your work area cluttered with useless items?

6. Throw away junk mail immediately. Always keep a trash can by your desk.

7. You will always have a need for office supplies. But these items take up a lot of space. Invest in some drawer dividers for various different sized items. You can purchase drawer organizers at any office supply store. The idea is to declutter. And again, always throw out things you don't need.

8. If you're confined to a very small work area, you might consider purchasing a laptop. Laptops are getting cheaper by the dozen and they often come with good deals with rebates. Shop around, you may be surprised at what you can find.

Clutter doesn't have to completely destroy your day or your business. Take action and get organized. Don't put it off any longer, do it today! With some effort and a little creativity, you can have a more efficient work space.

Article written By: Tammy Embrich

Tammy owns and operates two work at home websites, a work at home forum, a recipe site and three blogs.

She offers free work at home job leads for the job seeker, business work at home articles, tips, and more. You can visit Tammy at Work At Home Jobs and Real Work At Home Jobs
 
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Friday, 20 August 2004

Home Office Organizer-Organizing Your Paperwork For Maximizing Effectiveness
By Josh Neumann Platinum Quality Author

Home office organizer skills are one of the most important traits you can possess as an entrepreneur. Quite simply, your income and overall success in business lies in your ability to keep your belongings organized and where you can find them

If you can’t, you will find yourself spending hours of needless time searching for something you should have on the tips of your fingers. Here are some tips to help you achieve your business goals with an organized home office.

First of all, make sure that the only items you keep on your desk or in your home office are essential to your everyday operations. You most likely have many paperwork piled up that you no longer use; if that’s the case, discard them immediately.

Your natural reaction when finishing up paperwork is to simply put it back on your desk, even if you will no longer use it. Everyone has that fear-throwing away something that they will genuinely need down the road. Therefore, nothing ever gets put back.

Unfortunately, this mindset does not lend itself to good organization. In order to get your office organized for maximum effectiveness, you need to go through and trash everything that you no longer use. This is not an easy process, but it is by far the most important step in getting your office organized now.

Now, that you’ve done that, the only papers remaining should be the ones you really need. Don’t keep these on your desk. In order to truly get organized, you need to establish a repeatable system that you can put your papers in every time you are done with the ones you really need. Piling them up on your desk in not the answer.

More than likely, you probably have a cabinet or another piece of furniture in your room that can serve as a home office organizer. If not, find a cheap one you can put in your office. It will be worth the small expense-here’s why.

Now that you have this home office organizer, pick a different drawer for each type of papers. For instance, your current bills that you need to pay should go in one drawer, your business information (ex. business name, sales tax ID) should go in another drawer, etc.

Use a label and mark what each drawer contains. When it comes time to locating a file you really need, you won’t burn useless minutes (or hours) searching for paperwork you should have right at your fingertips.

Don’t just stop with papers; clear all your unnecessary items away from your desk at once. Books, magazines, or anything that doesn’t relate to your business need to be discarded immediately. That doesn’t mean that they should necessarily be thrown away, simply removed to another part of the home.

If you follow these simple home office organizer tips, you will quickly find your effectiveness at work increasing dramatically as a result. Most people don’t realize it, but when you add up a few minutes here and there searching for lost items, by the end of the year you likely have spent literally days searching for items, and thus losing out on all that important productivity.

It doesn’t have to be this way. When you establish a proven system to organize your belongings, your productivity and income will skyrocket in a hurry.

For more great organization tips, try visiting http://www.organizelifetips.com, a popular site that teaches how to organize your closet as well as home organization tips.

 
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