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

Virtual Moxie

I use a few more tools (see below), but I''ll add these to the list: 1. 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. What does this give me?

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Best Business Technology for Small Businesses & Their Owners (28 ideas from them to you!)

Stephanie LH Calahan

  I like to share various tools that help to make you more productive. We started by asking this question: What tech tools (office machine, gadget, hardware, software or online tools) could you not live without, why and where can we find it?  OneNote: My Filing Cabinet In The Clouds.   OK! 

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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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19 Work From Home Success Secrets to Eliminate Distractions & Get More Done!

Stephanie LH Calahan

and within a couple of months - redecorated our guest room to serve as my husband's new office. We moved him up, and moved me into his old office as my own. I had a workspace, tools and materials all set up for me. I find that it is easier to work in an office. Set office hours and stick to them.

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