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Marilyn Kleiber has been organising herself personally for all the years she can remember. She often claims she had to organise the hospital staff when she was born.
However, it is her financial organising skills that have been helping staff, and clients for fifteen plus years. As a woman, she prefers to use the word plus, rather than admit to any specific number that may cause someone to make a chronological judgment.
In her own home office, Marilyn is confident that an organised office allows her to be far more productive than she would be if she was knee-deep in paper clutter. This translates into more income and less outgo.
Marilyn says: “I have often worked with people who claimed they could put their hands on any piece of paper in their offices. The ones who claim this usually have paper in piles all over desks, chairs, the tops of all furnishings in the room and a liberal pile of papers on the floor.”
“However, when asked to produce something, they perform what I call the ‘mole actions’, which are a sudden burrowing among stacks and stacks of paper, with many of the stacks transferring themselves haphazardly to further stacks. The item is usually never found, because luckily they are thankfully interrupted by some other crisis. Unfortunately, all too often this can mean unproductive office hours, and lost opportunities for creating income.”
“I’m almost entirely convinced that many of these clutter kings and queens keep their offices in such disarray because; a) they want to appear constantly busy, and b) it would be difficult to replace them quickly or easily, so they take comfort in thinking themselves indispensable. Anyone taking over those offices would have to spend days and maybe even weeks locating all the pertinent files.”
“One client of mine actually completely misplaced a very large five-figure cheque, and spent countless phone hours getting a replacement. The interest lost, because the cheque was five months late being deposited, will never be recovered.
“An organised office, however, is more that simply a clean desk. It is also comfortable furniture, plenty of clear workspace, organized and easy-to-find files, a good reminder and follow up system, electronic systems that work, close-to-hand daily files, easy to locate supplies, easy-on-the-eyes decorating and a bright cheerful office area. Under these circumstances, you have greater focus, become more creative and find it much simpler to discover new ways to increase your income, and to keep more of it.”
“Over the following days and weeks, I will be posting articles to address each of these topics in much more detail, passing on many of the valuable tips I have gathered over my years of experience.”
“I do want to stress, however, that while I think I have discovered some fabulous ways of organizing an office, whether at home or at a place of business, I am always more that willing to hear your own suggestions about other ways of doing things. I’ll even try them out. So please feel free to post comments at the end of each of the articles, or e-mail me at askme@iorganise-you.com I will always give you credit for the ideas I publish.”
While Marilyn specialises in financial organisation she is definitely convinced that having an organised house makes for a pleasant and comfortable home, where you have room to put things away fairly quickly and easily. A comfortable home becomes your relaxing refuge from life’s challenges.
Marilyn also presents seminars, speaks to many groups and conducts in-house trainings for companies to help the disorganised free themselves from the chains of massive paper clutter, chaotic finances and unnecessary expenses.
