If you have a bag of old checks, credit card statements, tax returns, or other private documents hanging around, good news: Staples stores are offering five pounds of free shredding. Just bring your bag or box to any Staples store to have it securely shredded. As you prepare to complete your 2011 IRS tax filing,…
Category Archives: Paper
Do You Respect Your Papers?
I have seen: a design-conscious client who felt that all her files MUST fit into a small rattan box under her table, like she’d seen in magazines. a home-based business that tried to get by with a decrepit metal file cabinet that was hard to open, harder to squeeze in another sheet of paper. a…
Worth Repeating – January Productivity Posts
Happy birthday to my New Leaf organizing and productivity blog! Begun in January, 2008, it’s now four years old! I’m dipping into the archives to offer you, my readers, a few yummy posts from those past Januarys. You know, since I can’t serve you cake digitally. In case you thought that clutter and excess stuff…
Clutter Can Be Funny? Just Ask Lois
Lois Morton is the Gilbert and Sullivan of professional organizing. Watch her music video, here: Lois Morton’s “Confessions of a Clutterholic” And she’ll make you laugh, make you wince, and give you courage. Can you ask for more?
Worth Repeating – May posts from New Leaf News
Looking ahead to summer. Remembering the past on Memorial Day. Listening as commencement speakers recall prior achievements and give advice for a lifetime. May is filled with beginnings and endings. What would you like to begin? What would you like to end? Here are a few posts from past Mays to help make today more…
Happy Valentine’s Day
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. – Pearl Bailey
Three ways to reduce your office paper this year
Keeping office paper within bounds is a challenge that hasn’t gone away. Here are three practices you can adopt this year to reduce the amount of paper you keep. Subscribe to online versions of newspapers, journals, and magazines. Many publications offer a full or expanded online publication, often for less than the cost for delivery…
One Easy Way to Get That Shredding Done
Feeding old financial documents and client files through a small office shredder is no one’s idea of fun. Finding a shredding company that will pick up less than 10 boxes of paper can be tough. So how does the small office or home office clear out a backlog of shredding? Many local stores such as…
Worth repeating – August posts from New Leaf News
I’m sharing a few posts from the New Leaf archives. Here’s what was on our mind in August during the past couple of years. Productivity depends on being able to work in comfort. Eliminate at least one pain in the neck with a wireless headset. Successfully planning for the future requires acknowledging past wins. Are…
Make up your mind
I received a letter recently from a client. It read in part: … I also made it to the bottom of my inbox, and I’m not letting things “ripen” there. Your encouragement to “decide to decide” has been helping to prevent things from piling up. … My client is succeeding because she is deciding. Professional…