by Hawkins | May 4, 2011 | Clutter, General, Home Organizing, Office Organizing, Problem Areas, Routines, Spring Organizing, Systems
When Spring rolls around, most people think and talk about “Spring cleaning” which for a lot of people means cleaning from top to bottom. You know how it is, you clean all of those things that you wouldn’t clean during your regular weekly cleaning routine....
by Hawkins | Apr 18, 2011 | Business Management, General, Habits, Home Organizing, Procrastination, Routines, Systems
Today is the deadline for filing tax returns, and yes, there are many people who spent the weekend pulling it together and those who will work right up to the last minute to complete them. Additionally, there are those who will file an extension because they...
by Hawkins | Apr 11, 2011 | Clutter, email, General, Habits, Productivity, Systems, Time Management, Workplace productivity
Tip # 3 is a suggestion that helps you organize email. Create email sub folders within your email account to sort your emails by category. Label the sub folders with categories that will make it easy for you to distinguish. For example, use different subjects,...
by Hawkins | Mar 14, 2011 | Business Management, Clutter, General, Office Organizing, planning, Productivity, Systems, Time Management, Workplace productivity
There are a few other things that you need to start a solid foundation to run your business. You can’t successfully run a business if you don’t have a good accounting system in place. For accurate and easily accessible records and having everything in one place,...
by Hawkins | Mar 11, 2011 | Business Management, Clutter, General, Office Organizing, Productivity, Systems, Taming the Paper Tiger, Time Management, Workplace productivity
Paper is a big problem in office and home environments and it can be hard to control and to contain. If you’re going to run a successful business you’ve got to have a handle the paper, so first things first, tame that paper tiger! Paper is the #1 culprit...
by Hawkins | Mar 9, 2011 | Business Management, General, planning, Productivity, Systems, Time Management, Workplace productivity
Of all the people in business, many of them are running things by the seat of their pants. Things are done at the last minute, deadlines are barely met or missed and with no support systems in place, eventually things start to fall through the cracks. To be in...
