This week I’m very proud to feature the organised space of one of my clients, Ricci Jackson, an interior designer.

Ricci and I had a telephone session and she also bought the Organise your Business system.

Since part of having an organised business is having a space to work in that supports and doesn’t sabotage your business goals, one of the components of the system is 7 easy steps to organise your office.

Ricci sent me an email and said this:

Marcia, I just wanted you to know that I am making strides.

I organized my office the first week, bought files, a label maker and even created zones.

I am inspired to work in my office again.

While it was never a mess,  I found myself spending way too much time trying to find where I put this or that.

Now having everything in its prospective zone is deliciously satisfying.

Don’t you love how she described it? Deliciously satisfying!

I LOVE IT!

I always say that organising is not just something you do for organising’s sake; it’s to enable you to live your life to the full.

Without having to search for things, Ricci is now able to use that time to work on her business.

Because her space inspires her, she can better inspire her clients.

That’s what it’s all about!

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she’s used at least 3 different ideas and tips that are clearly visible to me

and here is the lovely lady herself. Doesn’t that colour look great on her?!

Thanks, Ricci, for letting me feature your inspiring space!

I’ll show you exactly how to:

• Do the one thing that will instantly get you more time
• Focus your time and get the right things done
• Design your business around what you’re good at
• Stop feeling overwhelmed
• Say no to what’s not good for your business
• Focus on your high-payoff activities
• Know when it’s actually good to procrastinate
• Stop time-wasters from getting the best of you

Plus you’ll also get regular weekly tips and information to make your business more organised and highly productive so you can bring in more money.

1. Please enter your first name and primary email address below, and click submit.
2. Check your inbox for a special link to confirm your subscription.
3. As soon as you’re confirmed, you’ll get a second email from me with the download link to your first tip. You’ll receive one tip every two days.

*Your email address will NEVER be sold – that’s my promise!

Love and time success

• Do you find yourself wasting time looking for files on your computer?
• Do you get frustrated because you just don’t know where to start?
• Do you know when and how often to do a back up?
• Has your computer ever crashed and you lost everything?
• Do you know how to organise and contain all those free things you keep downloading off the internet?
• Do you know how to name and store files so they’re easy to find?

Join me as I host the Everything you EVER wanted to know about organising your computer teleclass with Computer Whiz Janet Barclay.

Janet and I have a combined total of over 30 years’ experience, organising individuals, groups and organisations.

Our systems, tips and tricks will help you have an organised computer in no time at all.

On this 75-minute teleclass, you’ll learn:

• Where to start organising your computer
• My DREAM method of organising your computer
• How to keep control of all the audios, PDFs and ebooks you get for free off the internet and how NOT to let it clutter up your hard drive
• Exactly how to label and store your documents and files so you can find them
• 3 little-known filing tricks
• How to organise your contacts and all those business cards
• How to cut your computer time in half
• How to organise tasks and projects
• How and when to do a proper, thorough back up of your files and how to know when to do it so you don’t lose your work
• And much, much more

Join us on…

Date: Tuesday 23 September
Time: 12 – 1:15 EST
How: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)
Cost: F-r-e-e for all Gold VIP Inner Circle members. Not a member? Join here

If you’re not a member, your investment for this valuable teleclass is only $37

You’ll receive:

1. The live call – training and live coaching in the question and answer section
2. Recording as an MP3 audio download
3. Comprehensive handout
4. Janet’s “Maximising your time with Outlook” ebook (sells for $9,99)
5. Marcia’s DREAM method of organising your computer report (worth $9,99)

If you can’t make the call “live”, you can catch up by listening to the recording within 24 hours.

If you’re ever going to keep up with all the paper in your life, you have to decide on a system and keep tweaking it.

You can read about how to deal with mail clutter and decide if that system will work for you, or if you need to make slight adjustments.

I’ll talk more about actual filing in later posts but before I do, I like to go back a step.

1. Examine the sources of all the paper in your life. Write them all down.

• Magazines
• Mail
• Printing emails
• Notes from school
• _________
• _________
• _________

2. See where you can eliminate or reduce the flow of paper into your life.

• If you get accounts by email and in the mail, email the company and stop the mail.
• If you and two friends read the same magazine, buy one every 3 months and pass it around.
• Sign notes from school immediately and send back the next day. Don’t leavethem on your counter a minute longer than you have to.

3. Decide on your comfort level for accounts/ filing

• I only keep 3 months’ worth of statements except for our water and electricity bills and that’s because it is a crazy nightmare dealing with Joburg Connect to get queries sorted out. There are MANY great things about South Africa; that’s not one of them
• I have one place in my study for “things to file”. Since I don’t keep a lot of paper, my comfort level went from once a week (about 18 months ago) to once every 3 – 4 weeks. I can still get through that pile in less than 10 minutes so it does work for me.

Your turn. What are your good ideas on dealing with paper?

Resource
7 easy steps to organise your office

Small business owners and work-at-home moms

Is this you?

o Do you wish you had more time to implement all your GREAT ideas?
o Do you feel overwhelmed by all there is to do?
o Are you stressed out and frazzled?
o Do you struggle to find a piece of paper, an email or a document on your computer in a minute or less?

That’s why I designed the Organise your Business system, which consists of a
1. Business Control Journal (18 pages) and
2. Organise your business e-book (50 pages)

When you’ve worked through the Organise your Business system, you will have a business manual which will help you…

• with Big Picture planning so you keep track of your goals and dreams
• set daily routines to put your business on auto-pilot
• declutter and sort out your emails and Word/ Excel documents
• get control of all the paper!
• prioritise and get the important things done so you have more time for your family
• create defined business processes and policies
• organise all your general business functions
• increase your productivity
• organise your client contacts
• create free time for self-care so you don’t get burnt out!
• de-stress as you become more organised

The whole thing is ready for you – all you have to do is invest a few hours upfront to put it together and a bit of discipline every day so that it becomes a habit!

You get all the templates, checklists and tools you could possibly need

Your investment
The entire Organise your Business system costs just R230 (or $US32,95) and consists of:
Business Control Journal (18 pages) and
Organise your Business e-book (50 pages), with sections as follows:
o How to organise your office
o Planning forms – big picture, monthly, weekly, daily
o General Business forms
o Clients
o Personal

What are you waiting for? It’s time to Organise your Business!

Email me personally with any questions at marcia @ takechargesolutions . org and I’ll be glad to help you, or alternatively

Buy the Organise your Business system now

Thanks for reading!