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8 Tips to Help You Clean Off Your Desk

Ian's Messy Desk

Make an appointment - Don’t just hope you find the time to clean up, set a calendar entry and stick to it. Organizer ( paper or electronic) to enter to-dos, addresses or calendar data. Sort – everything into boxes/containers according to what needs to be done: file , shred, recycle , refer, toss, etc.

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2 Measures of effective productivity systems…

Ian's Messy Desk

Not only did she remember the name of the antibiotic from four years previous, within 45 seconds she had pulled a copy of the prescription from her files. My mother has gotten things done by using heavily annotated paper calendars. That was just before my mother’s 78th birthday.

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10 Tips to Help Keep Your Desk Clean

Ian's Messy Desk

Schedule filing time at least once per week. Add dated or calendar items to a tickler file system or a diary as soon as they arrive. anything you need reminded of on some future date goes into your tickler file. Add dated or calendar items to a tickler file system or a diary as soon as they arrive.

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