How to Reduce Clutter in Your Office

How to Reduce Clutter in Your Office - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. When people find out that I am a professional organizer, they always say, my #1 nemesis is paper. Please help me deal with paper in their office. And so, these are just going to be some quick tips that you can incorporate into your office to help you deal with all those little bits and pieces that come into your life on a day to day basis. Here is a simple whiteboard that hung on the wall. You want to make sure that you have divided up that whiteboard into different categories. So I have to dos, meeting topics, notes. And you want to make sure that it is customized to your life, and the things that are going on in your life. And then, this is a place where you can just throw stuff up. So you have things come to your head, you write them down. It does not need to look nice. You know, you are just going to throw your ideas up so they are not floating around on your tabletop. Over here, these are some simple wall pockets that you can pick up, pretty much, at any office supply store. And they fasten to your wall, either by double sided tape or by screws. And then you want to make sure that you have them labeled, so everything is assigned a home. You can put file folders in those, you can use them for incoming mail, outgoing mail, bills to pay, things to read. It keeps things up off of your tabletop into a nice condensed area. It makes it look neater, and your space clearer. One of my last tips for organizing your office is these great corkboards. You can get them in different colors, they are squares, and they just go up, right up on your wall with double sided tape. And then you simply just use tacks to tack up different notes. Again, you want to assign a different category for each tackboard. So here, we have things to review, things to look into, personal items. It may be things that you need to follow up on. It keeps the paper from cluttering up your desktop, getting in the way of what you are working on currently. But it also allows you to follow up on things, and not lose those little dates that you need to find, or things to put in your calendar, or enter into your computer. This is a great resource. Again, you can find it at any local office supply store. And those are my tips for organizing your office.