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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. […]

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Managing Mail

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:

Use a letter opener
Invest in a shredder
Spend a few minutes each day OPENING AND LOOKING at your mail
THROW OUT envelopes unless they contain […]

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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 […]

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It’s so easy to let it get out of hand; there’s so much to do.  We’d rather do anything than get organized, promising ourselves we’ll get to it — someday. But that day never comes, and before long we’re sitting in a heap of clutter — This is something I call Pile Crisis Syndrome©
 
 
Here’s how […]

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Click here to watch a ‘How To’ video on effectively checking e-mail:
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