1. Step 1
Use the Windows-created “My Documents” folder as the “root,” or base level, folder for your documents.

2. Step 2
Create folders within the My Documents folder for the various categories of documents you work on, for example: Clients, Family, Photographs, and so on.

3. Step 3
Create sub-folders within the category folders, going as many levels deep as you need. For example, under Clients, you might want to have a sub-folder for each individual client; in the Photographs folder, you might have a folder each of your children or friends, with subfolders for each child, friend, and/or year.

4. Step 4
When you save documents, make sure to change the save location so they are filed in the appropriate folder.

Let The Work Organizer can help you to be more productive and effective in your business, … and your life!

818.599.1365 or
Cindy@TheWorkOrganizer.com

Many of my newer clients have what I like to call ‘pile crisis syndrome©’ - It’s not pretty or necessary. Here are a few things you can do TODAY to stop this insanity:

1. Use a letter opener
2. Invest in a shredder
3. Spend a few minutes each day OPENING AND LOOKING at your mail
4. THROW OUT envelopes unless they contain time sensitive and/or legal documents (don’t stuff papers back into the envelope)
5. Shred and recycle what you don’t want immediately - make sure to shred or ‘black out’ address information
6. Flatten papers
7. Get a step file

8. Start file folders with the following headers

    

• Immediate Action
• To File
• To Do
• To Read
• Taxes
• Projects
• Credit card / Applications

To GET & STAY organized, call 818.599.1365

Help@TheWorkOrganizer.com

• It’s possible to fix the mess
• It’s possible to learn to organize
• It’s possible to attain harmony
• It’s possible to enjoy spare time
• It’s possible take control…

Take 30 minutes this week and sit with one of your paper piles.  Toss, file, or put papers into a “To Do” folder.

If you’re unable to file things away, I would guess:

a) You don’t have a file cabinet,
b) your file cabinet is difficult to open,
c) your file cabinet is so full, that you won’t even deal with it.

There is a solution.  You can start by understanding that people who are organized are that way because they work at it.  Organizing is an activity and a task that needs to be scheduled and tended to in some way, each and every day.

The Work Organizer can teach you how to be productive in your business and your life.  We have undeniably effective techniques and systems to increase your productivity and reduce your stress.

In this sluggish economy, NOW is the time to combat the chaos.  Be ready for the upswing.

818.599.1365

Help@TheWorkOrganizer.com

Picture reproduced with permission from Anne McGurty, www.StrategizeAndOrganize.com.