10 Minutes A Day To Organize Your Office

No time to organize your office? Follow these daily steps to organize and then maintain your office.

1. On Mondays, de-clutter your office. Remove at least one item which you don't use at least monthly. Remove all personal items from your desk. Throw away pens that don't work. Reduce your ketchup/salt/napkin supply by 90%.

2. On Tuesdays, take inventory. Review your supplies and make a list or place an order. Take a few minutes to look through an office supply catalog. You'll find a myriad of useful organizing items. Remember to keep an ongoing list of needed supplies in a place where you can easily find it. Consider a magnetic notepad.

3. Think on Wednesdays. How can you make better use of your computer? Can you develop a spreadsheet to help organize some aspect of your job? Do you need to find and register for a computer class? Do it today.

4. Thursday is sorting day. Go through all those business cards and small pieces of paper that have accumulated throughout the week. Put them where they belong. Also put away any reference materials you've been using. Set up a better system to keep track of your contacts.

5. Have fun filing on Fridays. End your week by cleaning up all the paper lying around your office. Purge your files. Have a mean and clean filing system that you can actually use.

Follow this schedule and you'll have an organized office in no time. Continue it on a weekly basis to stay on top of clutter and to enjoy a more efficient office.

By: The Time Manager

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Barbara Myers is a speaker, author and organizing consultant. Enjoy a FREE organizing tips booklet at www.ineedmoretime.com.