Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More by Stever Robbins

Author:Stever Robbins
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781429925532
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

You’ll find once you have reclaimed the space in your life, you’ll feel liberated, you’ll breathe better, and you just might remember what color your carpet is, after all.

Put Everything in Its Place More Quickly

Once you’ve tossed the things you don’t need, there’s still the little issue of putting everything else in its place. Since we’re all about working less, let’s be really, really lazy about this. Organize physical things quickly and easily by moving things where they should go immediately. If something would interrupt your physical organizing and take time to put away, you do it on paper. Your paper will end up with a personal map for the New World order in which everything is happily put away. Then you’ll make reality conform to your master plan.*

To start putting things away and organizing quickly, make sure your trusty pad and pencil is nearby and just start grabbing items. Let’s say you’re cleaning your apartment before a party, or cleaning your office before your annual review. If an item’s home is here in this room, put it away. Voila! It’s cleaned up for real. But if you’re in your office and you just grabbed that plate of half-eaten chocolate cake that lives on the floor under your desk, its home is in the kitchen sink or dishwasher (I hope). For now, set it neatly by the door. You’ve just started your pile of “things that belong in other rooms.” Put all files-to-be-filed in one corner of your desk, then file them all at once. And yes, your secret stash of one thousand sticky pads that’s outgrown its hiding place will go in the “things that belong back in the supply closet” pile.

Next time you leave for any reason, grab the items from that pile that belong where you’re going. Take the items with you, and as soon as you arrive, put them where they belong. Once again, you’ve done real cleaning up. This will work for cleaning your home up quickly, too. You’re happily putting everything where it belongs . . . until you reach that invitation to the annual sales convention and masquerade you found buried under the centerfold from the current issue of Earth Moving Farm Equipment and the Farmers Who Use It. You know you want to go, but you needn’t keep the brochure and so you don’t want to file it or put it away; you just want to toss it. On your handy piece of paper, write the heading “Possible To-do Items.” Jot down the information about the masquerade and throw away the invite. Do this for any object that generates a future to-do item—like that page of notes you just rediscovered and that you need to integrate into the memo you’re writing. Write down the to-dos whether or not you know when you’ll do them. Capture the action, throw or put away the item. Just keep moving. That’s what I mean when I say you’re doing things on paper; you’re recording any potentially

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