Sandy Jacobson, coach and seminar leader, started Victoria-based Simplicity By Design Organizing (simplicity-by-design.com) four years ago.
Sandy focuses on workplace productivity for people who "realize they're losing time by shuffling stuff around," she says. According to Sandy, the average person loses about an hour a day doing just that. Besides inefficiency, there's waste to think about. "Since the advent of e-mail, paper use has increased by over 50%, and the average person uses about 250 pounds of paper a year."
Sandy's act-now tip: Get rid of your in-tray. "It just becomes a clutter collector," she says. The problem is that things that need attention now get jumbled with things that need attention later.
The solution? A three-tiered basket. Label the top tier "out," the middle one "in -- sort" and the bottom "file." Sandy's business is based on a system she calls the Magic Six; six steps to get you from simply orderly to truly organized. "If your readers do that alone, that will be an important step towards getting control of paper and information," she says of the in-tray swap. "That's one small piece of the Magic Six. If they're interested in the rest, they can call me. I guarantee they'll be rid of paper chaos for good, be able to find what they filed in five seconds or less and they will have a simple system to maintain it."
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