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Spring Clean Your Desk
Author, columnist, professional organizer Cyndi Seidler offers tips to help create a happy work environment.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tired of shuffling through papers covering the surface of your desk, going through stuffed file drawers and over-crowded cabinets to find what you're looking for? Maybe it's time for a desk spring cleaning.
Cyndi Seidler, author, columnist and organizing expert, suggests that a cluttered work space usually creates a cluttered mind. She claims that desk clutter adds unnecessary stress to our work day, stating that "Our work environment should be a happy place that smiles at us when we walk into it, not frown or scream at us."
Seidler, who runs a professional organizing business in Burbank, CA. offers these tips in creating a happy work environment:
| | - Gather up all loose paper and make one or two piles to sort.
- When sorting paper, make a decision whether to a) do ACTION on it, b) KEEP it, or c) TOSS it.
- Action papers can go in an Action File or a Project File if several papers relate to it. Make a note of things needing action on a Task List. Put these folders in a vertical desktop file holder on or near your desk.
- Create a Reading tray basket for papers to read or review later.
- Delegate any action papers, if possible.
- Categorize papers that are being kept for filing. Rework the filing system, if needed, so that it is easy to store and retrieve papers swiftly.
- Get rid of cluttered nick-knacks and decorative paraphernalia on and around your work area. Framed photos and a floral arrangement or special desk statue are okay if it adds to creating an aesthetic work space.
- Everything should have a place, and everything should be in its place. Use organizing tools (storage products) to give "homes" to items that are on the loose on the desk, shelves, or cabinets.
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Cyndi Seidler, a frequent media guest, has been helping individuals create organized lifestyles since 1994. NBC's Access Hollywood dubbed her "Organizer To The Stars" and HGTV's Smart Solutions host Maty Monfort made Seidler a season regular because of her valuable tips and charismatic, on-air personality. In print, her methods have been featured in numerous newspapers, and she currently has a weekly column in the Indianapolis Star called "Organized Living." She owns and operates HandyGirl Professional Organizing in Burbank, CA. Availability-Los Angeles or nearby counties; nationwide by telephone or by arrangement.
For more information contact Cyndi Seidler:
Phone: 818-508-1555; Fax: 818- 301-2525
Email: cyndi@organized-living.com
Websites: www.organized-living.com and www.handygirl.com
Book Title : "Organize For Success" publisher, 1st Books Library, paperback, 102 pages, ISBN 0-75960-988-8.
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