|
Getting your home office organized, especially if you work
from home, can seem like an impossible task. As the primary
paper center of your home, your home office tends to have
more piles of “stuff” that you need to do something with
than any other room in the home. How do you organize those
piles? How do you organize any part of your home office?
What needs to be organized? And where do you even start?
Home office organization does not have to be
difficult. You just need to get started and get started in
the right way. Because the home office tends to be a place
that just gets more and more added to it every day, it is
important that you get started and keep it going. So what is
the best way to tackle this home organization project?
Start with your files. Because the home office is the
primary paper center of your home, getting your files
organized first will have the most dramatic impact on how
the space looks and also about how you feel about the space.
Home office organization, like all organization projects, is
more about how you feel about the space than about how the
space really looks. So start by getting those files in
order.
How do you get your filing organized? Organize it by how you
use it. How you look for something is different than how I
look for something. So how my filing system looks will be
different than how your filing system looks. Your files and
how you organize them need to make sense for you.
But before you actually file anything, take some time to
think about and write out a filing structure. Writing it
down will help you think through it and make sure that it is
the best solution for you. It is also helpful to keep this
filing structure information as a reference tool. That way
if you have a question later about where something is or how
to file a new piece of paper, your filing structure document
will help you figure out what to do.
But perhaps the most important home office organization tip
of all is to make sure that you keep up with the paper that
comes into your home office. It is great to get a system
setup but if you do not maintain it on at least a weekly
basis, the paper clutter beast will come and take over your
home office again. So make sure to schedule home office
organization time into your week.
|
