AN ORGANIZED HOME OFFICE IS WITHIN YOUR GRASP. Get a grip on your home office with these handy pointers! This handbook is for entrepreneurs, telecommuters, stay-at-home parents, and home-based business owners, complete with video bonus lessons and printable reference sheets online. YOU WILL LEARN: • Your own unique fingerprint for managing your choices about time • How a simple playground game can help you sort your paper piles • The five things you should review each week that will change your family life forever • How to choose the best space for your home office and find more storage • The one question you should ask before putting anything on your calendar “As we manage our work+life fit, more of us will work and live in the same space, either on our own as an entrepreneur or remotely for someone else. The Home Office Handbook, by my go-to organizational guru Lorie Marrero, shows you how to create a home-based work environment that sets you up for personal and professional success. Must read!" Cali Williams Yost, Flexible Work Strategy Expert and Author of TWEAK IT: Make What Matter to You Happen Every Day "Even those of us who've never met a filing cabinet we liked will find tips in this handy book to keep the home office organized and make the most of our time. Lorie is practical and cheers all improvements without insisting you do anything that won't work with your life." Laura Vanderkam, Author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast and 168 Hours "Being organized is critical to growing your business fast. Lorie's book delivers specific actions you can apply immediately to get organized and stay there. This book is a must-read if you're ready to take your business to the next level." Jason Dorsey, Bestselling Author, Y-Size Your Business Certified Professional Organizer® Lorie Marrero is the bestselling author of The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life. She is also the creator of ClutterDiet.com, an innovative program allowing anyone to get expert help at an affordable price. Her organizing books and products are sold online and in retail stores nationwide. Lorie is a spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International, and she is a sought-after expert for national media such as CNBC, Family Circle, WGN News and Woman's Day. She has also served as a spokesperson for many other companies, including Staples, Brother, and Microsoft, and she writes regularly as an organizing expert for Good Housekeeping. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her human family and 30,000 bee daughters in her backyard beehives. Learn more at clutterdiet.com

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The ultimate guide to getting your life in order—with hundreds of practical and empowering ideas, projects, and tips—from America’s most trusted lifestyle authority Trust Martha to help you master all things organizing—sorting, purging, tidying, and simplifying your life—with smart solutions and inspiration. Here, she offers her best guidance, methods, and DIY projects for organizing in and around your home. Topics include room-by-room strategies (how to sort office paperwork, when to purge the garage or attic), seasonal advice (when to swap out bedding and clothing, how to put away holiday decorations), and day-by-day or week-by-week plans for projects such as de-cluttering, house cleaning, creating a filing system, overhauling the closet, and more. Martha’s indispensable expertise walks you through goal-setting, principles of organizing, useful supplies, and creating systems for ongoing success. A look into Martha’s own personal calendars offers a template for scheduling essential tasks. Last, plenty of strategies, how-tos, timelines, and checklists will help you stay organized all year long.

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Declutter your desk and brighten up your business with this transformative guide from an organizational psychologist and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. The workplace is a magnet for clutter and mess. Who hasn't felt drained by wasteful meetings, disorganized papers, endless emails, and unnecessary tasks? These are the modern-day hazards of working, and they can slowly drain the joy from work, limit our chances of career progress, and undermine our well-being. There is another way. In Joy at Work, bestselling author and Netflix star Marie Kondo and Rice University business professor Scott Sonenshein offer stories, studies, and strategies to help you eliminate clutter and make space for work that really matters. Using the world-renowned KonMari Method and cutting-edge research, Joy at Work will help you overcome the challenges of workplace mess and enjoy the productivity, success, and happiness that come with a tidy desk and mind.

This survival guide incorporates professional records management principles in teaching small business owners those with fewer than 20 employees, home-based businesses, and the self-employed who have no employees how to organize and manage their business records. Organize your Office answers these questions: 1) What records are vital to your business and how should they be handled to ensure privacy, business continuity, and regulatory compliance? 2) What legal issues apply to your small business and its records? 3) What business records do you need to keep and for how long? 4) What do you need to do to ensure you can access the information you need when you need it? Written in simple, non-technical terms, this book will - describe the benefits of effective records management - explain inventory procedures to identify operational records - introduce records retention practices - explain vital records procedures - explain filing fundamentals - introduce records management automation