The average employee today has about 37 hours of unfinished work sitting on his/her desk at any given time.* Piles of files on a desk or hundreds of emails in an Inbox are not just indicators of a lot of work yet to be done. For many, it means they need help getting organized in a tangible way.
You may ask yourself, “Can the volume of work be the cause of disorganization or is there a simpler explanation? For many, the answer is simple yet complex.
What is it? Simply put: It is the inability to make decisions. If you don’t believe me, take a closer look at some of the “stuff” you have sitting in your office right now. Clutter is a result of delayed decisions. Every time you make a decision on what to do with an item, whether it is an email in the Inbox or a piece of paper, you are one step closer to being organized and one step further away from having clutter. When it comes to the elements of email and paper, learn to become a quick decision maker.
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