Start with a few simple ways to streamline your life, be more productive and stay organized:
Manage your schedule
- Send yourself reminders via email, app or electronic calendar.
- Set up a separate inbox for your reminders, and check it daily.
- Use a family calendar to track family commitments.
- Eliminate multiple calendars, or be sure to synchronize.
- Set up a grab and go area near your exit to remember to bring items with you when you go out.
Pare down paper
- Pay as many bills online as you can.
- Remember to maintain receipts if they are tax-deductible expenses.
- Find what you need, when you need it: set up a simple format and naming convention to scan and to file. Please remember to back up. If you don’t keep the paper as back up, save to a hard drive or cloud storage.
Eliminate electronic clutter
- Reduce stress and anxiety resulting from the overwhelm of feeling buried.
- Unsubscribe from e-offers and emails that are no longer relevant to you.
- Clear out your Inbox by creating folders for important senders/categories.
Filing
- No one LIKES to file (except for me). Make it easy on yourself, or set up a simple system, for paper and electronic matter, so that anyone can put your stuff away.
De-clutter your space(s)
- Surround yourself in an environment that represents who you are.
- Free up valuable space.
- Start with the EASY decisions. Choose to keep or eliminate. Get to know what you have.
- Set aside 10-15 minutes a day: with a notebook and pen, walk room to room, closet to closet, drawer to drawer, until your entire home/office is inventoried. Bookmark where you left off each day so that you can pick up where you left off. This may take a month or more overall to complete. The process will force you to eliminate items that you no longer want.
For more easy ways to streamline your life, be more productive and to stay organized, contact me. We can quickly brainstorm your unique life situations to transform your life to an organized life.