{"id":674,"date":"2018-06-21T21:34:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T21:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.onlinesalespro.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2020-09-12T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T14:25:09","slug":"getting-organized-saves-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinesalespro.com\/blog\/getting-organized-saves-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Organized Saves Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Running a business successfully takes many skills &#8211; and one of the most important is organizing.&nbsp; Initially it does take time to get organized, but it is well worth it since you will save so much time once you are.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Clutter Costs Big Time<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you are not organized, your life is cluttered.&nbsp; Not just your desk.&nbsp; Not just the kitchen sink.&nbsp; Not just your garage.&nbsp; Your LIFE is cluttered.&nbsp; You might not realize this, but clutter creates havoc in your mind.&nbsp; The chaos is disturbing, and before you know it, you&#8217;ll be thinking in the negative.&nbsp; You&#8217;ll become more pessimistic than optimistic.&nbsp; Others will see your face frown more than smile.&nbsp; When you think your brain is hard at work for you, instead it will be trying to sort through everything trying to keep you on the straight and narrow.&nbsp; Before you even get started organizing your business, take time to do the following:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Clear off the counters in your house.&nbsp; Put things away.&nbsp; Do not leave them out to haunt you.<\/li><li>Pay your bills and take the papers off your desk.&nbsp; If several items need your attention, put them in a manilla envelope and date it.<\/li><li>Throw things out.&nbsp; You probably don&#8217;t need all of what you have, so pare it down. Just keep all you need and what you want.<\/li><li>Strip the negativity from your thoughts, because that is cerebral clutter and can put productivity to a halt.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fear Can Stop You In Your Tracks<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You may ask &#8211; what does fear have to do with this?&nbsp; If you are usually rather disorganized, you will need to change.&nbsp; Most of us are leery of change.&nbsp; We&#8217;re comfortable with who we are and what we do.&nbsp; Change is intimidating.&nbsp; Acknowledge that and try to change one bit at a time.&nbsp; Organize things slowly &#8211; even then you will see the benefit &#8211; and soon the fear of change will turn into the pleasure of being organized.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>To L.I.V.E. is a Choice<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>An expert in organizing, Jennifer Ford Berry, captures her knowledge in the acronym L.I.V.E.&nbsp; Spelled out in her book,&nbsp;<em>Organize Now!&nbsp; A Week-by-Week Guide to Simplify Your Space and Your Life,&nbsp;<\/em>we discover that the letters stand for:&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>L<\/strong>ist &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>I<\/strong>nternal Organization &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>V<\/strong>ision &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>E<\/strong>xternal Organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>LIST.&nbsp; The older you get, the more you&#8217;ll realize that to help our memory, we need to write things down.&nbsp; Create a daily list of what you need to do and what you want to do.&nbsp; Cross tasks off the list once you have accomplished them.<\/li><li>INTERNAL ORGANIZATION.&nbsp; Take this blog to heart.&nbsp; Start thinking in a more organized way.&nbsp; Plan your schedule so that one task flows into the next so you are not retracing your tracks.&nbsp; It all starts off in your brain, that gray matter that keeps you moving.<\/li><li>VISION.&nbsp; Focus on who you want to be, what you want to do, where you want to go, when you must start, and how you will get there.&nbsp; Without a plan for how you will meet your goals, sadly, you won&#8217;t.<\/li><li>EXTERNAL ORGANIZATION.&nbsp; Now you are ready to clean up your life and your lifestyle.&nbsp; Make things fit.&nbsp; Put things away.&nbsp; Get rid of the clutter.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A favorite librarian friend of mine said that the best lesson she learned in Library School was getting organized.&nbsp; The good news is that you do not have to go to Library School to learn this lesson.&nbsp; By eliminating clutter, by embracing change, and by using author Berry&#8217;s tips, you will be able to manage all of the details so much better.&nbsp; Use <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinesalespro.com\/signup\">Online Sales Pro<\/a> to help you organize your time, your business, and your contacts &#8211; and you will accomplish so much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running a business successfully takes many skills &#8211; and one of the most important is organizing.&nbsp; Initially it does take time to get organized, but it is well worth it since you will save so much time once you are.&nbsp;&nbsp; Clutter Costs Big Time When you are not organized, your life is cluttered.&nbsp; Not just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[159,70,6],"tags":[164,165,166,11,31,167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinesalespro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinesalespro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinesalespro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinesalespro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinesalespro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlinesalespro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509,"href":"https:\/\/onlinesalespro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/2509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinesalespro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinesalespro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinesalespro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinesalespro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}