On The Job

OCTOBER 25, 2010

On the job, your work space is tidy and well maintained, with all your projects lined up like neat little soldiers. But while co-workers see you as the poster child of organization, you hide a dirty little secret: Your home office looks like a typhoon just hit. Files are scattered. Learn to divvy up the space.

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Allwork

JUNE 30, 2023

While the dust from the 2023 tax filing season has long since settled, if you are a freelance worker, independent contractor , or digital nomad, now isn’t the time to forget about your taxes. Firstly, it is the simplest and least expensive form of business to set up and maintain. While celebrating U.S.

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Small Business CEO

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Working at home doesn’t mean that you need to work in a “homely” office. As home-based businesses become more and more popular, the home office environment becomes more important. If your home office is set up like your living room or is actually located in the living room, forget about it.

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Success

OCTOBER 16, 2023

How to Optimize Your Day: Have an Intentional Morning Wake up – 9 a.m. Instead of checking your email or Instagram the moment you wake up, fall into a productive morning routine that helps set the tone for a productive day. Better yet, if possible, take a longer midday break.

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Allwork

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Digital nomads travel the world, often packing lightly so that they can easily move on to a new city or country and set up a new base there. This Ergonofis height-adjustable wooden laptop stand is foldable and easily transportable, which means it can be packed up and easily transported or popped into a bag.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 1, 2016

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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Clutter Coach

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Say you’re working on a new organizing habit, such as getting your personal mail handled daily, pair that up with a task you’re already in the habit of doing. Try attaching it to your dinner clean up. You tidy up the kitchen after dinner and then you go to your mail sorting spot and tidy that up to, as it were.

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Clutter Coach

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I mention tidiness and tidying up a lot in this podcast though, so I want to clarify that what it mean is spending time to put away things you are no longer using to clear space for other activities and to lessen visual distraction. A client hired me recently to help her organize her home office. Happy as a clam. That’s better!

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All Things Admin

OCTOBER 26, 2023

People set up home offices and found ways to avoid interruptions. When the world reopened, not everyone decided to go back to the office. Dress for Success We all want to feel comfortable in our own homes, but showing up for a video meeting undergroomed or underdressed is unacceptable.

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Clutter Coach

JANUARY 31, 2018

This often happens with people’s home offices. I’ve been shown home offices that clearly haven’t been used in years. “Home office” and “where you work” aren’t necessarily the same place. . The garden office was too cold. That doesn’t make sense!

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Ian's Messy Desk

JANUARY 15, 2014

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. It adds up.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 28, 2016

While you want to trust your remote workers as much as possible and give them a reasonable amount of freedom to get their tasks done from their home offices, it’s also important to be extremely clear from the get-go about your expectations. Remote workers can also access work files from any device that has an internet connection.

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Success

APRIL 10, 2024

And it’s really a worthy endeavor—one he says “absolutely” adds up. Office expenses and supplies Paul Miller, managing partner and CPA at Miller and Company, LLP in New York, says amidst the complexities of the tax code, this write-off is often overlooked. I work from home and use my home garden for nutrition education a lot.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

MARCH 24, 2011

Spring is coming, and with it, an opportunity for a little sprucing up! 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. You may be one of the many who feel you never really set up your office properly in the first place.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 29, 2011

.  When you have an office, or your only office, in the home there are usually added complications.     DIGITAL IMAGES ARE YOUR FRIEND Often the stuff that invades home offices belong to children.  I created a “My Smiles” file in my office. To your success!

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Clutter Coach

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

I once suggested that a client who was stuck organizing her home office focus just on one corner of her desk. Sit in a different chair, look at a different view, do something to change up your current physical experience. As Woody Allen says, 80% of life is showing up. Or file it away for future use. Tip #4: Move!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

Do You Have A Pain In Your Back-up? Everything is backed up on the web automatically. OneNote: My Filing Cabinet In The Clouds. create notebooks and files just like I would with paper, but now it is all organized on my computer. I use Carbonite. I subscribe to it annually, and the program does everything for me.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JULY 22, 2011

I always have a way of keeping up with my most important tasks that day! If I use the small Post-Its I can even make my board portable -- I use two open, facing pages of a notebook for a miniature board, and then I can just close it up and go to Starbucks, the library -- anywhere I feel creative today. In my Power Office!

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Virtual Moxie

APRIL 15, 2013

I don''t know what''s been up this last week, but people have come out of the woodwork to ask me how I get so much done without working crazy hours, and so I thought this would be a great time to revisit my productivity post from about this time two years ago (you can read it here ), and share any updates to it. So there it is.

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Productivity Bits

APRIL 5, 2011

Sometimes it’s easier to bring the office home, and sometimes it’s more effective if your home is your office. If you do decide to have a home office, be sure that your office is far away from the family room and the kids’ room. Keep It Child Free. Keep It Clean.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 1, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « No Space for a Home Office?   We've helped slews of clients implement the software along with other productivity systems as they claimed their Office Miracle ™ ! Filing So You Can Find it Again   in News & Updates!

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Productivityist

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Because adding tags (or "tagging") tasks, projects, and (now) OS X files can really boost your productivity when used properly. Keep in mind they can be used to identify items that are based on location (home, office, project) or for things as unconventional as energy levels, emotions, or days of the week.

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On The Job

OCTOBER 26, 2007

But here is one thing I know for sure: As soon as my butt hits the chair in my home office, I will have visitors. But should I finally manage to contain the four-legged animals, the two-legged ones soon take up the challenge. So they breathe until I can’t stand it and I look up. Run it up the flagpole.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

» 7 Tips for Organizing Your Home-Based Business Home based businesses are more than a passing fade.  According to the Small Business Administration: Small businesses make up more than 99.7 Home-based businesses account for 53% of all small businesses.   In fact, they continue to grow in numbers.

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Virtual Moxie

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Add the attachments (which involves finding the files, choosing the files, attaching the files, and waiting for them to upload as attachments to the email. Set it up to give me a read receipt. Set it up to Boomerang back to me tomorrow afternoon if there’s no reply. Write the email. Proof the email.

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Productivityist

AUGUST 29, 2013

One problem I have when I don''t reassess my projects every once in a while is that too many of them end up in Pursue and not enough of others get moved to Punt. So I moved all of the project files as notes into Evernote (under a notebook called Productivityist Videos) and deleted the project from OmniFocus.

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The Small Business Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

The money that leaves a small business is often taken up with overheads that are necessary for the day to day running of the business. Is it possible that you could conduct your business from a home office? « Top 5 Serious Start-Up Mistakes Is Your Networking Fishy Enough? lower overheads.

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 21, 2007

Examples of teams are: Work Teams Sales Teams Customer Service Teams Virtual Teams I would suggest that small business owners need to form teams around their small business and start-up business , like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses, too.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Many are starting small businesses or home businesses, freelancers, self-employed, contractors, professionals in all small business areas setting up shop. » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 at 9:09 pm and is filed under Work/Life Balance. Well don Interwatch Security!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 4, 2011

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. Then, set it up for your success! Work On Work At Work, Work On Home At Home.

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 16, 2007

It is also noteworthy that you will not have to provide office space, work-tools, computer, heating, etc. for virtual assistants, as they usually work from home. « Skype Down, WinWeb Slow – the price of mash-up. Businesses and people like to do business with professionals. Have a nice day!

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