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Organizational Skills

“Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition.” – Arialdi Minino

Personal management would be incomplete without the ability to stay organized. We cannot accomplish any goals without the resources required to get the job done.

Some people have desks and drawers cluttered with papers and junk. They feel they need these things “just in case”. However, they are probably wasting more time trying to find the things they need than getting the job done anyway. You can greatly increase your personal management skills by getting organized. The best part is you already have the skills required to be organized, you just need to start putting them to good use. Here are a few great organizational skills that will improve your personal management techniques:

• Throw stuff in the garbage. Most people can get away with throwing 50% of the things they save away without any negative consequence.
• Use a PIM (Personal Information manager) such as Outlook or a Day Runner planner / organizer.
• File paperwork away in a manner that is consistent and understandable.
• Reduce your information collecting points. Most people have multiple email inboxes, paper inboxes, voice mailboxes, snail mailboxes, etc. That is too many locations to manage incoming information. Try to whittle it down to only a couple.

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