While we are all busy throughout our day tending to our projects and client needs, it is easy to find ourselves under an overwhelming pile of paperwork, while our email inbox is overflowing with clutter and little bits of paper with important information find their way on the floor behind the desk! Among that paperwork, you recall a marketing or admin to-do list. You finish your day knowing that you should have spent some time organizing yourself but who has time??
There is a deceiving myth that hinders your productivity and that is believing you need to have HUGE blocks of time to make any progress with organising. That’s. Not. True!
Marcia Francois, an organising coach, lives by a simple motto:
“Small results, repeated consistently over time, produce huge results”.
Today she provides us with the following simple ideas for when you have a spare 5 or 10 minutes:
- Connect with an old client.
- Delete some of your contacts, especially if you can’t even remember who they are.
- File or delete 10 emails.
- Enter some business cards in your contacts.
- Make a list of things to update on your website.
- Go through your RSS feed reader and organise your blogs.
- Go through your cell phone and delete old messages.
- Plan your projects for the next month.
- Go through the bookmarks on your computer and delete those you don’t need.
- Compress and crop some photos
My challenge to you is to print out the list and aim to do one of these tasks every day for a week. And then I want to hear how this worked out for you? Were you able to give your business a little 5 minutes today? Did you plan it ahead of time? Did you attempt it first thing in the morning, last thing before leaving the office, or maybe right after lunch?
Ready? Set? Take 5 >> Go!
Marcia Francois is a time management and organising coach who empowers small business owners and other busy professionals who want to make the most of their time. You’ll get simple, practical organising and time management secrets to help you work less and enjoy life more! Visit http://takechargesolutions.org for your free Organising Success Pack.