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	Clean Off Your Desk Day

	The Second Monday in January

What does your desk look like right now? Everything neatly stored away in its proper place? Or piles of assorted paper everywhere? How about setting a New Year's resolution to get your office (home or work) in order? Think about all the problems that a MESSY desk causes you -- you are late paying bills, you can't find important papers when you need them, you look at the stacks and are filled with a sense of panic. Just taking a few minutes to CLEAN out the obsolete and set up some paper management SYSTEMS will carry you a long way toward a clean desk. Invest a few minutes creating a clean, efficient workspace for yourself.

Some Practical Organizing Tips...

Start by squaring off the piles on your desk. Then, one stack at a time, ask yourself what ACTION you need to take to resolve each piece of paper. Start creating categories like "to file" or "to read" or "to pay." These "action files" are the basis of your paper management system. Each new piece of paper you receive should be categorized, stored in the appropriate file, and then acted on -- it comes in, then it goes back out again.

Toss it out unless you have a good REASON to keep it. If a document requires an action, contains vital information, you can't easily get it again somewhere else if you need it, or you are legally required to hang onto it -- fine. Otherwise, it goes away.

Set aside time each DAY to clear up the accumulated paper. If it requires an action, finish taking action on it and be done with it. If it needs filed, file it. If it belongs to someone else, return it. If it's trash, toss it. Don't let paper linger indefinitely.

Do-It-Yourself Solutions...

Organizers Toolbox
Checklists and tip sheets to help you maintain a tidy office

Before-And-After Photos
See how these actual offices and desks were organized

Do You Need To Get Organized?
Take this quick quiz to see if your office needs a little help

What Are You Doing To Get Organized?
Share your desk organizing strategies and techniques with others

The Latest Organizing Products
"Do-it-yourself" tools to help you take control of your desk (and more)

Clickable Office
Follow the links for tips on clearing off the stacks and piles at work

Clickable Home
Follow the links for tips on getting your desk at home in order

Get Organized Newsletter
Check out past issues for tips on paper and office organizing

Organized For A Living Newsletter
Flip through back issues to improve your home business procedures

Useful Website Links...

10 Tips To Organize Your Home Office
Create a good system and your desk will stay clean for a long time

A Place For Everything
Enjoy this grab-bag of tips for getting control over your desk and office space

Administrative Resources
Offers a three-step process for taking back your workspace

Banker's Box
If you know when you can toss a piece of paper, it won't create a pile on your desk

Cleaning Your Desk Makes Room For Solutions
Apply the Japanese custom called oosooji -- "the big clean" -- to your desk

Happiness Is A Clean Desk
Commentary about and tips from Bottom Line for tackling those stacks and piles

How To Destress Your Desk (Ahhhh)
Eliminate stress by tackling those mountains of files, papers, and unread mail

Is Your Desk Under Stress?
How curing "deskitis" can rid your workspace of clutter and germs

Let It Go
Seven ways to keep what's on your desk from owning you

Office Resort
Resources to help you get organized, reduce stress, and relax at your desk

Personalized Clean Off Your Desk Day Email Cards
Encourage your friends to get their desks de-cluttered with this fun email greeting

Proper And Prudent Document Destruction
Get those piles of discarded paper off of your desk once and for all

Studies Show A Clean Desk Gets The Raise
Celebrating Clean Off Your Desk Day brings you closer to career success

The Top Ten Ways To Organize Your Paperwork
Organize your way to efficiency and make room for your larger priorities

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