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How you decide to place things in your office really depends on how often you will be using these things. making these things convenient to you so that all you have to do is either reach over, spin around in your chair or slide over a bit usually works best for me when i am trying to make the most of the time that I have. Making sure that your stapler, or your fax machine is within reach just might be a few choice items at the very top of your list!

You should be able to reach these items easily. Visually they should be right in front of you and readily avaiable. Attractive storage containers are nice too but, make sure that you can still access whatever is within them with a minimal amount of effort.

Make sure that your business finances are viewable from your seat and that you can keep them at hand for when they are to be watched over especially in the beginning of your new business adventure. You want to keep the cash flow circulating around and around to stimulate and make your business grow. If the cash flow is left to stagnate then the business cannot and will not thrive. A good friend once told me that I should spread money around like manure. Rather a disturbing thought to one degree or another but, still the sentiment really does ring true if you think about it.

Make sure that you have a “To Do” list because this helps you to stay organized and focused. It will also help you to stay on top of which things are at the top of the priority list and which ones are at the bottom. Each day the list will change to a certain degree.

I have also packed up a special leather briefcase that replicates many of the same documents that I might need so that when I am visiting clients or spending time with a vendor i have all that I need right htere with me. Obviously, I have my laptop and my blackberry but, I would rather be overly prepared than to have to run back to the office because I need to copy something.

When it comes to answering text messages, emails and phonecalls my day can be overun with both both personal and business related concerns. I’d like to say that i try and save all my answers to my emails, for example are all saved for 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. or something along those lines but, for me, in this business its a little unlikely. people want to reach me now and if theyknow that I am available in all these ways then its definately NOT in my best interest to ignore them too often.

I keep a “To Do’ book, a day planner which allows me to separate each client and track everything that transpires over time with that particular job. It would be too hard to try and remember every phone number, address or detail of any clients home when I stage it.

I try to block my time as much as I can so that I get things done in a timely manner and without too much back and forth of anything.

When it comes to mail i like the one look over approach. I don’t like to keep rifling through the same bills, or quotes or whatever over and over again. If its junk it goes right in the trash. If its something that I need to read then it goes into a bin for that for a time when i can sit down and read all my reading at once. Make sense? Bills are bills they have their own place too.

The key is to be organized. Repeat the same organised methods over and over. keep things in the proper containers so that they are easily accessible.

All of this will make your life so much easier!!

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