It’s Clear-Off Your Computer Day!
It’s Clear-Off Your Computer Day!
Do I hear moaning? If your computer desktop is a sea of icons and you can’t remember “where you saved that document” it’s time to get to work!
Take some time today to examine what each of those floating icons is on your desktop. Do you still need each document? If not, hit the recycling bin. If you do need it, find a home for it.
Your computer filing system should be set up similarly to your paper filing system, with documents inside sub-folders and those folders inside main folders.
Today is also a great day to make sure your backup system is working. Or if you don’t have one, get one. Take the time to clean up your operating system. I am no expert on this, so I will refer you to experts or if you want to do it yourself, find information on the Internet like this from WikiHow.
It’s kind of ironic that “Clean-Off Your Computer Day” lands on Valentine’s Day this year. Maybe make this project a gift to yourself. Like any organizing project, the time you invest in organizing will benefit you many times over in the long run.
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Are you afraid to start an organizing project just to be overwhelmed or lose motivation in the middle, to be left with even more chaos? You are not alone. That’s the fear of most people who don’t have time to allot to a big organizing project.
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Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.