Making the Most of Your Time- Part 5 of 6
Creating a time eating category all it’s own now is PAPER! It gobbles up our time, our space and even our energy. In a nutshell, here are some of my favorite ways to get PEACE of PAPER(TM).
Designate where you will keep various types of paper: incoming mail, bills to pay, reference papers, and important documents.
Toss more and file less. Again that 80/20 rule comes up. According to filing and paperwork experts we actually will only use less than 20% of what we file. Purge is the word!
Realize that now much of the paperwork we keep is actually available on line or easily replaceable if we ever did really need it. Talk to your accountant about what paper you REALLY need to be keeping for tax purposes. Just think of the time you will recover when you aren’t filing paper or the money you’ll save when you aren’t paying someone to file it!
Another reason paper piles up is because it requires some consistent time to be allotted to deal with it. Taking just a few minutes each evening to deal with incoming mail and papers will be easier than saving days to deal with it later. Take it on in small bites. It will be much easier to “digest!”
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