The Organized Business Owner

I manage my desk, I manage my business!

By Figen Genco

It is very important to start your day RIGHT to be productive all through the day. As a business owner, you should always look energetic, positive, successful and dynamic, and ready for all the challenges of the day from the moment you walk into your office. You should set an example with your high performance for your staff and for the sake of your own business.

How enthusiastically can you start your day, if you are facing a cluttered office first thing in the morning? As Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte stated “Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.” Being busy all the time doesn’t necessarily mean you are actually producing something. It might mean you keep looking for your things so that you can actually start what you need to do be working on. It might also mean your activities are scattered throughout the day, which causes waste of time.

Here are some tips:

The position of your desk is very important for you to perform efficiently. You should be getting enough light from the window, yet not too much since it will glare on your computer screen. You should be facing the door, but not in a way that the passing traffic would distract you.

Position your phone on the opposite side of the hand you use. This way you will have your righting hand free, when you need to take notes while on the phone. Place other equipment such as a calculator, to your right.

Keep a small loose-leaf spiral notebook for telephone log near your phone. You can keep track of the messages in that book.

Have some paper ready near the phone to take down notes. Write those notes down where they belong as soon as you get off the phone, and throw that paper away.

Keep the most frequently used items within fingertip reach. The recent projects, which you are working on, should be in immediately accessible space, as well. When they are completed, file them away.

Try to avoid having too many personal items, or decorative objects, and place the ones you have in a spot where they won’t distract you.

Sort incoming papers as soon as you receive them, and put them away. If you put them in a pile, you will end up reading them several times.

by Figen Genco, Professional Organizer
Author of Organized For Life, Genco Organizes, 215-354-0275, www.organizer4u.com

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Langhorne, PA 19047

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