WHY HIRE A PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZER?
A professional organizer provides ideas, information, structure, solutions and systems to increase productivity, reduce stress, and lead to more control over time, space and action.
BENEFITS OF GETTING ORGANIZED
- Create prosperity by eliminating clutter
- Reduce stress
- Increase productivity
- Harmonious, clutter-free environments
- Time to focus on what you do best
- Optimize use of space
- Operate more efficiently with systems that are easy to use
- Identify priorities, define goals, develop a plan to achieve them
- Control incoming paper
- Streamline personal and professional life
- Find what you need when you need it
- Control of finances
- Accomplish tasks you've been putting off; learn how to
- Eliminate procrastination
OFFICE-RIGHT CAN HELP YOU GET ORGANIZED
We offer a range of services to individuals, organizations and families: from assisting with organizing, sorting through, and cleaning out, of paper work and household items, to working with small businesses on a one-time or on-going basis, in the development of filing and paper flow management systems.
GUIDELINES FOR A SUCCESSFUL ORGANIZING SESSION
When we meet, I will be there to
- Help identify your needs;
- Listen to what you wish to accomplish:
- Offer problem-solving expertise;
- Suggest methods and techniques;
- Help set in place new organizing systems; and
- Provide support as you move into order.
You must be willing to:
Set aside the necessary time to set up the systems. It took some time for you to get where you are and it will take some time for you to move out of that space;
Make the necessary decisions to set up the systems;
Replace old habits. Usually, the call for help means a readiness to change. If the systems are well-designed, with ease of use in mind, change will come more easily; and
Maintain the system. It's like doing dishes or weeding the garden. If you keep up with it, maintenance time is short. If you let it go, it takes a little longer. However, with an underlying organization structure in place, one can always return to order.
GETTING STARTED
"A place for everything, and everything in its place." Many of us were raised hearing this statement, and it's still valid. It's important to determine, early in your quest for an organized office, where everything will go. If you do this correctly, there will be only one place to look for any particular item - and only one place to store it when it isn't in use.
Don't wait for something to happen to trigger you to get organized. In order to implement changes in your work habits, you need to do the following:
Keep your personal motivation in mind. Everyone has his or her own reason for wanting to get organized. What's yours?
Determine what has been holding you back. If you face this problem squarely, it may never trouble you again.
And mostly, recognize that you have the ability to change. It's never too late to try something new.
Set goals. The more specific your plan is, the more you will achieve.
Apply a new skill every day. The more you use your new skills, the more effectively they'll work for you.
Reward your own
good behavior. Everybody likes positive reinforcement. When you've
earned it, treat yourself.
KEEP IT ORGANIZED!
Don't feel guilty or blame yourself for being disorganized. I know of no formal course in school that teaches organizing skills. How can you know something you've never been taught - unless it just comes naturally? But, you don't have to be organized to the same degree as someone else; you only have to be organized to a degree that helps you work efficiently and productively.
Avoid piles of paper at all costs! Horizontal piles of paper take up valuable surface space, distract you while you're working, and tend to grow higher and higher as you pile unrelated papers on top of one another. It's easier to find a piece of paper if it is standing vertically in a file with related papers than lying horizontally in a pile with unrelated papers. The time it takes to put papers in file folders is minimal compared to the time it takes to sort through stacks of papers--over and over--to find the ones you need.
Keep the items you use often within reach. Constantly retrieving items you use a lot is as big a time waster as searching for lost items. Every time you leave your desk, you waste time and become distracted. It's important to keep in mind that wasted minutes each day turn into wasted hours each week. Those wasted hours will cost money
Get a big wastebasket and keep it handy. USE IT!
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