Author: stephanie-shalofsky

It’s said that we live in a digital age and I suppose that we do. We go nowhere without our smartphones, we read books and catch up on the news on our e-readers, and communicate with business contacts, friends and family alike through email. So, yes I guess you can say we are a “wired” society.

If that’s the case, why is it that so many of us suffer from paper overload? From stacks of papers covering our desks, to smaller piles on the kitchen counter, and the ever- growing pile of newspapers that we are going to read “soon.”

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Stephanie Shalofsky

Stephanie is a professional organizer in works with business owners to streamline operations, improve time management, and to design a functional home office.

http://www.theorganizingzone.com

It seems amazing, doesn’t it? Here we are right at the beginning of the year!

Somehow we managed to frantically finish our holiday shopping while at the same time attending to the responsibilities of work and family.

It’s been a pretty hectic, but it’s also a fun time for sure — especially if you allowed yourself to take some time to enjoy the good cheer that comes along with the holidays.

Now that the celebrations are behind us, this is the perfect time to think about the New Year — not so much about the resolutions that we may have already been made and broken, but for the possibilities and opportunities that lie ahead.

Yes, a new year, a new you!

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Stephanie Shalofsky

Stephanie is a professional organizer in works with business owners to streamline operations, improve time management, and to design a functional home office.

http://www.theorganizingzone.com

If you’re still waging war on your cluttered office, don’t stop! I’m picking up where I left off from my previous post — Wage War on Your Cluttered Office (Part 1) — to share more things you can do.

Today’s post shares some additional steps that you can take to get your office organized and functioning well. If you have already started to do what I outlined in Part One, you’re half way there and you can surely see the light at the end of the tunnel.

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Stephanie Shalofsky

Stephanie is a professional organizer in works with business owners to streamline operations, improve time management, and to design a functional home office.

http://www.theorganizingzone.com

Ugh. I can’t find anything in here!

Oh no, where’s that file on ________?

There’s no place for me to put the new printer.

I’m in a rush. Let me look for the folder later.

Folders here, folders there, stacked up on the desk, credenza and the floor as well. Piles of paperwork perched on pretty much every surface, knickknacks scattered here and there, endless post-it notes stuck to the walls, computer monitor and pretty much anywhere else on which they can stick.

Get the picture? Sure, you do.

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Stephanie Shalofsky

Stephanie is a professional organizer in works with business owners to streamline operations, improve time management, and to design a functional home office.

http://www.theorganizingzone.com

How’s your to do list working for you?

Now’s the perfect time to re-think the process that is being used for managing your to do  list as there are probably an ever increasing number of tasks that need to be addressed in both your professional and personal lives.

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Stephanie Shalofsky

Stephanie is a professional organizer in works with business owners to streamline operations, improve time management, and to design a functional home office.

http://www.theorganizingzone.com

What immediately comes to mind when you hear the term prime real estate? If you are like many, prime real estate conjures up an image of a spacious, well designed, extremely expensive office space in the heart of your city or town’s business district.

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Stephanie Shalofsky

Stephanie is a professional organizer in works with business owners to streamline operations, improve time management, and to design a functional home office.

http://www.theorganizingzone.com

Everyone that I know, including myself, finds themselves procrastinating from time to time. Does that sound like you, too?

Picture this scenario. It’s Monday morning …

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Stephanie Shalofsky

Stephanie is a professional organizer in works with business owners to streamline operations, improve time management, and to design a functional home office.

http://www.theorganizingzone.com