{"id":96,"date":"2009-06-23T16:12:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T10:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/?p=96"},"modified":"2015-01-24T17:55:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T22:55:17","slug":"15-minutes-of-office-organizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/15-minutes-of-office-organizing\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Office Organizing Tasks that take 15 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Office life tends to be very messy. We have so much going on all the time! We have so much paper and stuff.\u00a0 <\/span>It all becomes disorganized very quickly.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>When do we have time to get organized?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In his book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People<\/span><\/span>, Stephen Covey tells the story of a woodcutter.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A man was walking in a forest one day, and he met a woodcutter hard at work sawing down a tree. It was a hot day, and he stopped and engaged in some friendly banter with the woodcutter about the weather and such.\u00a0 <\/span>The man continued on his way and a couple of hours later as he came back through the forest he came upon the woodcutter again who was still hard at and sweating profusely from the heat and his efforts. He asked, “Mr. Woodcutter, how long have you been sawing that tree? You haven\u2019t made much progress. Perhaps your saw is too blunt. Why don’t you sharpen it?”\u00a0 <\/span>“I could\u201d the woodcutter sighed. \u201cThe saw has not been sharpened for a long while.\u00a0 <\/span>But <\/span>I don’t really have the time.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>We have to sharpen our ax too!\u00a0 With organizing we are more efficient, effective and productive!\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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What can we do in 15 minutes?<\/span><\/h3>\n