Time Management: Organizing Your Office - Part 2

Organization and time management go hand in hand. When you organize your office, you increase the effectiveness of your time management.

Today starts day 3 of Getting My Life Back in order by organizing my office. This will take a little longer than plan. I didn’t realize how out of control everything was… no wonder it kept taking me forever to get anything accomplished.

How do you begin to organize when you find yourself buried in clutter?

I applied the I.O.E. 3 Step Process from my book Time Management book Flip Your Time to get the office organized.

Step 1 – Identify -What to Organize

I walk around the office (where I could) and did an assessment. From there, I made a list of what I would need, what would stay and what to do etc.

Step 2- Organize – Put a Plan Together to Organize the Office

A big part of the problem resulted from "no place to put stuff" so I would need temporary holding while organizing. I decided use 2 paper bins and 3 banker boxes.(Already had 2 banker boxes full) Garbage bags for trash.

Decide where to start and organized the activity list accordingly.

Step 3 – Execute – Begin to Organize my Office

Now I’m ready to take action.

I picked the storage closet for the starting point. Cleaning out the closet would free up space. From there, I would work my way around the office clockwise.

Check out the progress I made over the past two days.

Still learning to use video… I picked up an inexpensive web cam at Radio Shack. Don’t know how to edit or how to use lighting but I discovered how to add titles using Window Movie Maker.

	Ann Rusnak - The Time Diva Entrepreneur Strategist
Ann Rusnak, is the author of "Flip Your Time" a step-by-step system that shows you how to take control of the clock so you can increase your profits and spend more time with your family and friends and experience the luxury of time.

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