speCiaLty:
Corporate and residential organizing
Company:
Organomics Professional Organizing (www.organomics. biz)
EDMONTON, ALTA.
Kristie Demke says that when she goes to help clients organize their offices, it’s not unusual to find dusty how-to-get-organized books buried in the clutter. Clients lose these books through what she calls the I’ll-deal-with-it-later mindset, where, instead of dealing with something, they pile it.
The piling problem isn’t helped by technology, which make it easy to print unnecessary e-mails and reference information. Not only does unnecessary copying and printing waste space and time, she says, it then nags at us to be dealt with.
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Think twice before printing, she advises. Ask yourself, “Do I need this hard copy?” And when you do have a hard copies, sort jobs into to-do bins (to read, to act, to file, to discard).
Demke says that most home-based business offices take less than 20 hours to organize completely, from clearing the work surfaces, to setting up an appropriate floor plan, to implementing a filing system. She says that’s 20 well-spent hours, because it’s easy to waste
