• Get organized! There's nothing that slows you down faster than having to wade through a messy desk or counter searching for a missing address, phone number, or important form. Take time to get and stay organized. After you do, the amount of time you set aside to perform ongoing maintenance will be substantially reduced. (Note: Because getting organized requires a different set of strategies, we’ll cover some of those in the weeks ahead on the blog and in some of the newsletters.)
• Review your priorities at the beginning of the day. Each workday, before you do anything else (okay, go ahead and grab a cup of coffee first, if you like), review your priorities for the day to see what you need to work on right away.
• Do your highest priority first, and drop your last priority. Instead of jumping to an easy, low-priority item on your list, always take on your highest priority first. And instead of letting your lowest-priority items languish at the very bottom of your list — never to be acted on — scratch the lowest one from your list or move it to a “low-priority” list to be acted on….some day. Chances are you'll never miss it.
• Lose your junk mail. Junk mail (and junk e-mail, also known as spam) is an incredible time-waster. Whenever you find it in your mailbox, don't pass Go, don't collect $200 — simply pitch it into the trash can or recycling bin. And as for junk e-mail, use your e-mail program to filter out messages from junk senders before you even see them. Out of sight, out of mind. One more thing: Be careful about giving your e-mail address to people and Web-site operators who may just turn around and sell it to the highest bidder. You may want to create a free Web-based e-mail address while keeping your business and personal email addresses more private.
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We have a a cross shredder right next to the trash can. It takes a few extra minutes to shred junk mail, but given the number of credit card offers and other potential identity theft risks, shredding is worth the effort. The key is to walk straight from the mailbox to the shredder. Put it on the counter for "just a few minutes" and the counter soon disappears.
ReplyDeleteI shred EVERYTHING. DH used to make fun of me until one of his friends was a victim of identity theft. Now he's just as paranoid.
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