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How to Be Productive When Working from Home
Do you work from home? Want to bump up your productivity levels? Today’s post has a few tips to help you be more productive and get things done when working from home. Establish regular work hours. It’s important to have regular work hours in place so you can actually...
Organizing Tip: Staying Focused While Working on an Organizing Project
Have you ever started an organizing project only to find yourself distracted? Your mind starts to wander and it’s getting harder and harder to concentrate on your work. Today’s offers a few tips to help you stay focused while working on an organizing project. Define...
Time Management Tip: Managing Your Morning News Routine
Do you have trouble tearing yourself away from your computer or smart phone in the morning to go to school or work? Do you wonder where all the time went while watching your favorite morning TV news program…even if you woke up early? Today’s post is going to cover a...
Do the Keys to Productivity Lie in the Past?
I came across an interesting news story yesterday from NBC Nightly News called “Tapping into old tech: Typewriters make a comeback.” As soon as I watched the story I knew I had to blog about it. Why? It’s a great example of how our quest for increased productivity...
Productivity Tip: Get More Done at Work with a Productive Lunch Hour
Do you want to be more productive at work? There’s a fantastic productivity booster that is available to you each and every day…but are you using it to your advantage? Today’s post covers something that many people won’t talk about…how to take a proper lunch break so...
Time Management Tip: How to Prevent Overbooking Your Schedule When You’re Retired
Are you soon to be or recently retired? Ready to take on a whole host of new experiences but don’t want to suffer from activity burnout? Today’s post covers a few items the recently retired should keep in mind when planning their days around new activities...
Productivity Tip: If it’s Broken, Fix it!
Are you ready to finally remove a thorn from your side? Today’s post is a no-nonsense reminder to urge you to finally fix what’s broken; be it a tool, system or other item in your life. We humans are creatures of habit. Habits aren’t inherently bad things, but this...
It’s The Order Expert’s Second Birthday! (and 10 Most Popular Posts to Date)
I started this blog on April 30th, 2011. I didn’t know a thing about blogging, but I did have one thing in mind: to get out there and spread my passion and enthusiasm for organizing and to help others. A whopping 370+ posts and two years later I’m still here, happily...
Organizing Tip: Taming Paper on Your Desk
Is your desk a sea of papers? Frustrated by flurries of floating files? Today’s post offers several tips to help get the papers on your desk under control. Contain incoming papers to one area. A desk or workspace is useful only if there’s space on which you can work...