If you’re a consultant, sales rep or any professional who spends a lot of time on the road, you probably have your entire life in your car. A change of clothes, a few pairs of shoes, bottled water, four unwashed travel mugs and empty food wrappers are scattered on the floor, back seat and in the trunk.
You also keep your entire office in an overstuffed briefcase. The idea is to keep all files accessible, but nothing is more embarrassing when you’re meeting with a client than spending 10 minutes searching through unorganized paperwork for the one file that the client requested. Read More
Imagine this: you’re sitting at your desk in the office one rainy Tuesday and there’s a power failure. Your computer goes dark and you’re about to swear because you just got cut off mid-sentence on an important report you were writing, when you suddenly realize, hey, this is sort of like a snow day! I can take my work home and get a bit done at my leisure then call it a day and curl up with the cat!
This sounds like a fantastic idea, so before the power company catches up with you, you grab your stuff and head out the door… or do you? Think about it: if you were stuck in the dark, would you actually be able to feel your way to the things you need, or is your space so disorganized that you’d be floundering in a pile of paper, knocking things onto the floor and tripping out the door with the one folder you could find and maybe the stapler? Ok, it’s an odd hypothetical question, but wouldn’t you like to have a space that was so ordered, so easy to navigate that you could literally find what you need with your eyes closed? If that sounds like a distant dream, take heart. We’ve got some suggestions for keeping your space power-failure-worthy! Read More
