Organizing takes time but it takes even longer if you don't keep things organized. I'm not a neat freak and this is evidenced in my office. I have always filed away documents on my computer with no rhyme or reason. The result is a constant searching for documents and graphics, etc.
Today I finally came to the point that I realized that as our church grows so does "my documents". So I spent the better part of the afternoon creating nice and neat little blue folders and started moving documents around to their proper folder. Now instead of a jumbled mess there are nice neat rows of folders in my finder. Now when someone says, "I'm interested in joining the youth ministry team I don't have to spend 10 minutes looking for that team handbook and application to e-mail to them, I simply open my finder and click on Team Applications and then send them the proper document.
If I had taken the half a minute to set these folders up as I went along I would not have spent the 3 hours today organizing. My desktop? Glad you asked. It is totally clear and clean.
I feel I can function better now. Okay, next week I'll tackle the office!
What do you do to stay organized?
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Best thing is to do it as you go like you said. My office gets crazy but I try to clean my desk before I leave for home at night. It makes it so I have a clean slate when I come in the following morning. Keep up the good work, I enjoy reading your posts and encouragement.
organize one thing, throw away one thing each day
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