Home office organization is necessary in order for your mind to feel calm enough to function well in your home office.

“It was a pleasure working with Vicki. The most helpful thing I learned was organizing my home office paperwork. I can quickly file and find anything now. The ‘sticky notes’ and paper piles previously covering my desk have now been eliminated. The information she taught me has been very helpful.” –Linda in Highland, Utah

“Before I worked with Vicki it took me a great deal of time to find what I needed in my office. Now I know where everything is kept. I now have an attractive, organized space where I get many things accomplished. Order in my office has brought me peace and happiness. I’m now in control, not my things in control of me.” —Norma in Provo, Utah

For additional helps, here are some helpful links to pages and posts on my website and blog:

1. Home office productivity includes making sure your to-do list gets done
2. Home office organization should definately include organizing your MOST IMPORTANT papers – your vital documents
3. Home office organization includes organizing your desk
4. Home office organization includes organizing your paper clutter
5. Home office organization includes organizing the papers in your file cabinet

In the podcast, home office organizing,  which I recorded today. I talked you through the important parts of home office organization. Then in my show page blog I gave you some great information about how to fine tune those items I discussed generally in the podcast. Listen and look for even more great information.

Home office organization is key to peace and order in your life. Don’t give up if you have not yet succeeded! Click here to see before and after photos of home office spaces I have organized, click here. Contact me if you have tried and found you need professional organizing help. I organize by-your-side throughout Utah and by phone and transfered photos nationwide. Leave a comment at the top of this post and tell us your favorite home office organization tip!

Vicki Winterton – Special to the Daily Herald Newspaper | Monday, January 19, 2009

Increasing your efficiency at work is very simple once you believe time is money.
Even though everyone has 24 hours in a day, some seem to have plenty of time, while others struggle to keep up. For a business to survive in a tough economy, it must become efficient and productive. As a productivity coach and professional organizer, I have found that before I can help a business improve proficiency, I must first help my client better manage her time. Here are four useful time-management tips:

• Schedule a time to plan. If you don’t know what you should be doing, how can you get it done? Establish a routine of planning your week and your day. This will allow you to have your “most productive week all the time. (See: http://lifelearningtoday.com/2007/07/22/your-most-productive-week-ever/ ) Schedule 10 minutes to plan your upcoming week on Friday afternoons. The weekly plan doesn’t have to be extremely detailed, just include the tasks of greatest importance. Use the first 10 minutes of each day to detail that plan further. Devote one whole morning early in the week to your most important project that week. If you don’t take the time now, when will you?
• Prioritize your to-do list by keeping three lists of three. The first list has three things you will do today that are most important to the success of your business. Be sure to differentiate between urgent and important. The second is three tasks you’d like to get done, but which aren’t of greatest importance. The third is three responsibilities that need to be completed at some point. Make sure to schedule a beginning and ending time for each of the tasks on your list. Stick to that time limit strictly. Accept the fact that you will rarely finish your to-do list. For clients who are perfectionists and overachievers, this is frustrating. They eventually learn to delegate or delete the non-essential items from their list. Sometimes, outsourcing really is the best and most economical option we have.
• Don’t check your e-mail first thing in the morning. Julie Morgenstern, one of my favorite nationally known professional organizers, has written a book with a similar title. She and I both understand how easy it is to get lost in e-mail messages and other less-important activities. Decide to check and follow up on e-mail messages three times a day for 20 minutes each time. Allow your secretary or your phone message system to collect your phone messages until your scheduled time to return phone calls rolls around each day.
• Get your office desk, papers, supplies and computer files organized. A major cause of ineffective time management is disorganization. Although many people claim not to have enough time in their day to get organized, the truth is that usually the more organized you are, the less time you waste. When my clients know where everything is, they don’t spend their valuable time searching for things or redoing things that have already been done.

Begin today to schedule a time to plan and to begin prioritizing with your three lists of three. Do that for two weeks; then move into the other productivity tips suggested. When your task list is planned and prioritized and your “office stuff” is in its place, you will be a much more productive person and your business will thrive.

• Vicki Winterton is a show co-host of the WIN onlines, The Organized Woman Show & the owner of ORGANIZING Mind over Matter.

If you need a quote OR would like to feature Utah organizing expert Vicki Winterton in a news story or interview…please contact her at the number listed here or email her at vicki@organize-utah.com.

Vicki Winterton is a Utah organizing expert who is well known for her practical tips and cleaver solutions. She is regularly in the media where she shares her energetic and fun tips with readers of publications like Utah Valley Magazine, the Daily Herald Newspaper, the Utah Peoples Post, the Salt Lake Tribune and is an often invited Utah organizing expert on KSL TV’s Studio 5. She is also the producer and co-host of The Organized Woman Show online.

Vick is a founding officer in the NAPO Utah group and leads the way in spreading the word about how we can perform better, be more productive, and simplify our lives.

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Television

4/2010   Organize your Garden Tools

12/2009 Tips to Simplify Christmas

8/2009 Time Management Tips to undo Murphy’s Law

6/2009   Space Saving Kitchen Organizing Products

4/2009   Declutter, Organize THEN Clean

Newspaper

4/2010   Take Command with a Family Management Center

2/2009 Entrepreneur Women – Vicki mentors others

1/2009   Organizing Workshops come to Provo

1/2009   How to make sure your To-Do List gets done

12/2008   Packing up the Holidays

1/2008   Ace of Organizing

Magazines

1/2009   Tip #18   Find the Time

1/2010   Project Clean Slate – HOME on page 48

Online Organizing Show

(2008 -2010) To find any of Vicki’s online organizing shows, click here to open The Organized Woman Show. New shows are offered weekly through The Women’s Information Network.  Listeners favorites include:

033: Organizing Kids Clothing

032: Organize your Important Conversations

031: Organize your Important Papers

029: Garage Organization

026 & 027: Organize your Blended Family

016: Preparing for House Guests

012: How to Organize any Space

011: Where do you begin to Organize?

009: Are you a Perfectionist?

008: Setting up Family Rules

007: Family Management Center

001: Why Organize at All?

Organizing Workshop Classes & Presentations

Vicki delivers live organization workshop presentations and classes throughout Utah’s Wasatch Front area and nationwide when requested.

To see a list of her organizing workshops and classes, click here.

If you would like to feature Utah organizing expert, Vicki Winterton, in a news story or interview…contact her at 801-623-8411 or email her at vicki@organize-utah.com.

Organizing Articles & Interest Pieces about Organizing Anything

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Time Management Techniques for Murphy’s Law

The Cost of Disorganization

Cleaning Products we Recommend

Helpful Organizing Resources

Organizing Products

Tips for Managing Paper and Data

Getting your To-Do List Done

Organizing for Students

Organizing AFTER the Holidays

Organizing your Home Storage Areas

What to do with the “Stuff” you No Longer Need

How should I store my Most Important Papers?

Why Organize?

Recommended Reading

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