Is your desk for so long that you can not remember what the desktop is buried done? If so, use these tips in order to clear room to work – and stay on top of your items for action more urgent.
“I know I’m here somewhere …” A big reason why we can not find the information we need when we need is that there is too much. Not easy for too long in coming, but to accumulate.
Resistance to overload of useless information and protect your mind and your desk of clutter. Why go through three inches of stuff, if you just looking for a piece of paper?
If you are a piece of paper and puts it somewhere flat, which occupies nearly one square meter of surface. The moment you know anything about it – bingo! You are halfway to compost.
To create an office with random access. The computer’s RAM is working really well. In humans, the most of our memories in context, a random-access recipe for disaster. Looking through stacks of paper steals time every day.
Worse, while you are by the contributions is diverted to your destination. Then you have to back what I call the consistent focus on making a good job to go.
Getting Your Desk Clear
# 1 Get it up! If you bring your paper vertically, you can fit two mountains of paper that is in the same square meter of space is only a piece of paper when it horizontal!
# 2 Wikipedia economic escalation desk-wire sorters, a strong visual make-to-do list with the most important things in the foreground. It is as “salt” – so the top of every file that sticks above the known him. You can see the entire contents at once, without actually touching the others.
# 3 Use more sorters to improve access to information in the fingers. Done for use, for example one for each nation, project meetings and things.
# 4 Ask yourself – E are ‘a part of the desktop? The only thing that is on my desk, a computer monitor, desk caddy with pens / paper clips, etc., my phone book and the message that the electric stapler. Aspire to nothing on the desktop when you are working on today.
In deciding what’s really on your desk, I keep thinking: ‘frequency of use determines the ease of access. ” If you do not use it that day, or every day, put them somewhere further away from you.
# 5 Remove all materials, supplies, etc., do not use or actually working on today or tomorrow from the action zone. Even if you do not have time to submit to the application now, they will receive from your desk and out of his way.
# 6 What is my Action Zone? Their action includes the area you reach the comfort of your chair. This means that no lines and not stand. How big is an area depends on how long are your arms. No matter how big your office, your Action Zone is limited by the size of the “span”.
Therefore, the scope of work is so important on your desk. E ‘also why I want a U-shaped work: you can from your chair and into a completely different function. If you set an L-shaped facility so that the computer is running zone is on the one hand, and the paper is functional zone on the opposite side of the L.
# 7 Create desk space Ditch all those coffee cups cracking pins and use a small desk caddy, turned around for easy access. It contains all the basic tools desk, usually serves in one place. If you have all the tools that fit here and spread it on the desk, is two square meters. The footprint desk caddy uses only eight square centimeter.
If you would like for the dissemination of large projects, you can take the Caddy desk, take in another room, stretch material, and you have an instant “office” where you are.
Your Action drawers drawers are shallow “office” drawer of my desk, I think 10-key calculator Solar, a specialist for my expenses, business cards, stamps, labels, sender and Post-It notes all the things that I use the often at my desk.
Another good way to get a small drawers is used on a tablet-style tools for desktop organizers will receive, instead of a desktop as my caddy. When you sit at your desk, you can open the compartment so that the tray as long as you work, are available. None of these instruments is surcharged the desk surface.
When you pulled away from your desk and file drawer, instead of the files to the front of the drawer, turn the files of 90 degrees around the tabs in your stool file. When you drag files from the drawer (and their labels) are directed upwards.
The categories that are in my drawer action: business, finance, customers, networks, and Eva (staff). These are the actions of the files on a daily basis.
Clear your desk
# 8 Do not let them land on your desk, unless there is an element of action. Setting up a separate inbox for e-mail and a bunch of “file” not at your desk.
Maintain files of vertical actions and clearly labeled so you can see what you should do today. Use the same categories to choose from on the desk and file drawer action.
# 9 When you finish working with a piece of paper goes through the action zone. Put it in your file system or recycle, if you do not need it again.
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Enjoy control over your desk again!
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Copyright 2008 Eve Abbott.
Copyright 2008 Eve Abbott
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