Five Ways to Find “Lost Minutes” in Your Day

For starters, try this: set a timer for 15 minutes. Now start at one corner of your office or desk and work as fast as you can. Your goal is to eliminate as much as possible. Don't stop to mull things over or have a discussion with someone. Your gut will tell you what can go. What sorts of things am I talking about? Ancient phone books you no longer need because the yellow pages are now online; magazines older than two months (the articles are probably online anyway); newspapers older than two days; invitations to events that have passed; coupons that have expired; junk mail and projects that are completed.

In addition to the trash/recycle piles, you can of course have an archive section (for those completed projects if you need to save them) and a place for items that belong elsewhere. Now is the time to return cups and plates to the kitchen or return to the office supply closet the folders you aren't using. (Make these returns after the timer goes off.)

Doesn't the space feel better? I call this process a "speed elimination," and consider it analogous to a diet. Congratulations. Your workspace is now five pounds lighter.

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Reply #1 on : Sat June 26, 2010, 03:28:18

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