One of the hardest, most emotionally exhausting thing to work on is PAPER ORGANIZING!
I always warn my clients that working with paper is a lot more exhausting than organizing a closet or pantry. It's not that it's physically exhausting - unless you're lifting a 50 pound box of paper - it's the emotional exhaustion that is the hard part.
When you are organizing a closet and you take out a few sweaters - it looks like you actually made a dent in your closet. But - when you take a few pieces of paper out of a file - you really can't even notice. Therefore, you think that you haven't accomplished as much and have a tendency to get frustrated easier. Even if you work for 2 - 4 hours on sorting through papers - it doesn't pack the same visual punch as if you had emptied out a closet.
But paper disorganization is one of the most challenging things to tackle. You have to look at every single sheet of paper (and there are 500 sheets in a ream of paper) - in order to make a decision on if it's something that you need to keep or if it's something that can be disposed of. Then you have to decide if it's something that you really need to shred.
So many decisions....
A Professional Organizer can help you wade through your papers and help you make sense of them. They can help you set up a system THAT WORKS - FOR YOU. Not someone else.
In order for the paper clutter not to return - you have to have a system that you can maintain. A system where YOU can find things - EASILY.
A Professional Organizer can help you with:
* Incoming mail & bills - creating a system that will work for you
* File creation and monthly or quarterly maintenance
* Creating a financial system - including filing system, setting goals and budgets
* Life Management - identifying all of your important information, including account information, contact information, medical information, house & property information and so much more...
* Emergency planning
* Anything paper related....
Paper organizing takes on a life of it's own. If you have a system in place where you only keep paper that is needed for tax or legal or bill purposes - and you have a designated place for that paper - then you will be much happier and less stressed. And - you will be able to find whatever you need within minutes!
If you do nothing else this year - go through your filing cabinet (or wherever you keep you papers....) and get rid of anything that you are not required to keep. *** Make sure that you check with your accountant and/or lawyer before discarding any questionable papers - they should have a list of how long you need to keep documents.
Happy Paper Organizing!
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