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Tips on Staying Focused and Disciplined When Working From Home

Office Dynamics

Come tax time, they may be able to deduct a lot of their home office-related expenses. To stay on top of things and be organized in your work, you need to have a dedicated home office. The space should be free of distractions and ideally have a door that you can close if you are trying to work when family is home.

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An Admin’s Guide to Virtual Meeting Etiquette

All Things Admin

People set up home offices and found ways to avoid interruptions. When the world reopened, not everyone decided to go back to the office. Make sure your laptop is charged, your internet connection works, and you have any files or information you’ll need to access ready to go.

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Podcast 082: Piggyback new habits

Clutter Coach

If your home office is in the kitchen, all the easier to do. At work, you might want to develop a habit of filing every week so there’s not so much paper clogging up your office all the time. You could tack this onto another habit or existing calendar item such as a weekly staff meeting.

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Eight Ways to Eliminate Paper and Clutter in Your Office

Ian's Messy Desk

Instead of filing the PDF on the network, the document was printed and placed in a filing cabinet , where it will sit until doomsday or at least until someone cleans out those files. Despite improvements in document handling technology, despite the convenience of PDF files, we still produce a lot of paper. DELAY IT.

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Spring Clean Your Business

Step It Up VA Coaching

Time to make a clean sweep of your office, your business systems, and even your mind! As a Virtual Assistant, you likely work from a home office. Chances are, your clients are all over the country (or the globe), and will never come to your office for a meeting. Clean out your file cabinet. Update your databases.

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Mad Productivity: Driving the Work so that it Doesn't Drive me Crazy

Virtual Moxie

I calendar everything and work from my calendar. Controlling yourself without an eye on the "containers" you have that dictate time for us humans (the clock and the calendar), is to try to control chaos--and also useless. To that end, everything I do is calendared during my work days. Office —mainly Word 4.

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Creative Uses for 3M Post It Notes

Stephanie LH Calahan

.  Today, 19 of my experts share their favorite and most creative use of the office supply gems. I stick it on my calendar, in my car on the dash or on my mirror in the bathroom. I use them to label paper piles during small business, home office or residential file system creation. Big Note For Big Tasks.

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