Are you ready to:

… increase productivity in your small-business (an office of 1 to 5 workers)

… stop working so hard and instead work smarter?  ~Save  yourself Time

… kick your business into high gear?  ~Save Yourself Money

If you answered YES, then this is your lucky day! With the forms, templates, checklists, and worksheets in this business mastery set you will have at hand the resources, expert tips, and proven ways to boost you confidence, quickly increase productivity, even improve the bottom line in your small business. The pdf templates in this set are the very same forms I use with my small-business clients and my work-from-home clients. The included templates touch on each of the workplace focuses below:

1. Workflow improvement
2. Time management including project and task management
3. Space management including how to create a power office
4. Data processing and storage
5. Paper management
6. No-cost or low-cost phone apps to improve office efficiency

I recently read the book ‘Getting Organized’ by Chris Crouch. He focuses on changing behavior and points out that anytime we encounter a new idea there are three possible outcomes:

1. Nothing will happen
2. We will alter our behavior in some minor ways
3. The idea will significantly change our behavior and our life forever

A year ago I worked with my client Susan in Alpine, Utah. She greeted me when I arrived with this statement, “I am just NOT an organized person!” “My mind does NOT work that way.” She and I worked side-by-side for a total of 10 hours. Susan learned, Read more…

   Personal productivity has a broader meaning than “just” time management. However, managing the time spent on specific projects is an important component of personal productivity. There are many pieces to the puzzle including: mental control, decision making, delegation, process management, etc. That said, personal productivity is all about getting more done within the same time and resources.

As a professional organizer / efficiency trainer I help my clients, both business and residential, get more done with the same time and resources.

I help them better organize their :

Read more…

We believe that business productivity and office efficiency are essential for business growth. I am Vicki Winterton, main organizer at ORGANIZING Mind over Matter, a business productivity consultant and efficiency coach. I was recently invited to speak to a local Chamber of Commerce group. I shared with those in attendance a few of my  business client’s success stories in becoming more efficient and productive within their business environment. I promised meeting attendees some valuable downloads and office efficiency tips. Those helps are located below, but before you take a look ask yourself these 4 important questions:

Read more…

Does increasing personal efficiency really help with office productivity?  YES it does!

What good does improving efficiency do?  It saves you BOTH time and money!

It is possible to find extra time in your day simply by re-organizing the way you approach the tasks that fall within your responsibility.  Take a look at each of the following areas of your work life and see where you can make improvements which will allow you to put more time into the things you REALLY need to focus in on:

Read more…

This is a collection of productivity tools I’ve either become familiar with or developed myself since I began my business in 2006. You’ll find that they address a number of different needs. Pick the one that seems to best fit your needs and give it a try for a couple of weeks. Who knows, you may find just what you have been looking for:
Read more…

    A well balanced family schedule and life is hard to achieve. Many of my clients feel like they are juggling life with way to many balls in the air. Some questions each of us have asked include these:

1. How do I live a balanced life in this busy world?
2. Is time for myself selfish?

These are good questions. A few years back I asked myself these very questions. I needed techniques that worked! Luckily, you can benefit from my years of research and work to design the best tools and techniques for “finding” time.   Read more…

   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!

Do you put off tasks that you do not want to do or like to do? Do you say, “I’ll just do it tomorrow.” Procrastination, for one reason or another, happens to the best of us.  Overcome procrastination by following these steps:   Read more…

Home based business ideas and marketing strategies are something I have focused on for over 25 years. I am an entrepreneur at heart and have formed three very successful home-based businesses over the years, the latest being a residential and workplace professional organizing service that focuses on helping home-based business clients become more efficient and productive with their time, data, paper and offices space design. I was invited recently to teach a class at the Orem Utah Small Business Development Center where I promised my class attendees some additional home-based business ideas and marketing links.  These have proven helpful in the early stages of getting a home-based business up and running: Read more…