1. How many months is it since you made your New

Year’s resolutions?

2.How close are you to reaching the organized

state needed to accomplish your resolutions?

If you’re not making the progress that you had

hoped for so far, let’s explore one of the

reasons you might be bogging down. It is one of

the primary points that I stress in all of my

time management training seminars.

Committing Your Time.

Finding time in your day for added activities is

something everyone struggles with. Organization

often gets put on the back burner because

everything else appears to be a higher priority.

Yet those other priorities would be accomplished

so much more easily if you were organized.

It is amazing how quickly you will gain back the

hours that you spend organizing. With just one

day, you could have a system that handled all the

daily papers coming into your home and office,

clear your desk and the surrounding stacks, and

get a flexible, efficient filing system started –

a one-day commitment!

Since the average business person is wasting over

one hour per day due to disorganization, within

two weeks, you would have gained back the hours

that you spent on getting organized because you

are no longer hunting for misfiled papers, lost

phone numbers, and pieces of contracts.

If one full day seems overwhelming, break it into

pieces. You can clean one drawer per day, file

one pile of papers per day, or enter ten business

cards into your database each day. The important

thing is that you actually schedule the activity

on your calendar.

While you go through the organizing process, keep

a log of the time you spend on each task. You

will probably be surprised to find that it doesn’

t take as long for each piece of the total

picture as you had anticipated it would. And you

can look back to compare the gains, both in hours

reclaimed and the resulting reduced stress.

Compare those with the actual minutes spent on

the organizing process, and you’ll see how it was

worth the effort.

Even with small steps, there are still people who

prefer not to deal with the organizing work on

their own. The process itself may not be fun,

especially if your strengths lie elsewhere. When

organizing simply is not something you want to

tackle on your own, consider using an organizing

specialist.

What can you expect from working and training

sessions with an organizing specialist?

1.Since organizing is more than just common sense,

you will learn the skills and techniques as you

develop a system that works specifically for you.

2.You will be working with someone who can get

the task done efficiently and effectively in as

short a time as possible because they come with

total focus on that objective.

3.They bring no emotional baggage, so you get an

impartial viewpoint as you sort through items.

No time is wasted agonizing over how it got that

way in the first place.

4.As you commit your time and budget to work with

a professional, you also commit yourself more

fully to success.

5.You pick up the skills and a rhythm that help

you work alone in the follow-up period.

Time is your most precious asset. It is the only

non-renewable resource, and so effective time

management can be a goal in itself. The time you

spend getting free of clutter and stress from

disorganization can save you enough time later to

make it a worthwhile investment, not an expense.