Managing Mountains of Paper & Mail! video & blog

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How do you suggest whittling down those MOUNTAINS OF PAPER on desks and covering practically every other surface?

Set up your SYSTEM
- Make it simple, consistent and repeatable. The psychology of not having a clear system for purging is the first hurdle to overcome. A system makes your brain calm and clear – seriously!
- I choose banker’s boxes for the system, I use it with my clients.
  - closeable, stackable, easy to come right back to it tomorrow
BOXES or bins labelled Trash, Recycle, Shred, File/Keep
- Just Sort! Don’t File Or Shred
Set a TIMER for 10 minutes a day or knuckle down and do it all. I recommend the first option. It’s less intimidating
DUMP Trash & Recycle
WAIT to shred
- Do it yourself later. I recommend a bottle of wine in one hand with the other hand shredding while binge watching your favorite show.
- Office Depot/Max: does small batches on site, big batches are secured in-store, then shredded by Iron Mountain
- Huge batches more than 35lbs take to Beacon Foundation. There are others but Beacon is my favorite.
Your Keep/File will soon be ALL that’s left
- Do 10 minutes a day and you’ll be filed away in a jiffy!

Once things are manageable how do keep FILING simple?

KEEP IT SIMPLE
If all you need is a small file box and a handful of categories/files, then ok
If you want something more detailed, consider Freedom Filer: color coded with emailed reminders
Aggressively toss old documents, like taxes and utility bills
Box up archival stuff, out of your way, out of your space

Okay, so how do we keep the daily influx of MAIL under control?

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With Love, Jennifer