The last few weeks I’ve been sharing with you unique challenges we face when we work from home. Let’s consider another challenge to getting it done—lack of organization. It seems like you can spend all day being extremely busy, but, in the end, you have nothing to show for it.

Here are some common scenarios that you may relate to…

• You wander from room to room looking for lost items like keys, paperwork, cell phone…

• You try multi-tasking, jumping from one project to the next and end up not doing any of them well. Since the mind doesn’t switch gears that quickly, you end up wasting time instead of saving time.

• You’ve been working on a project when an idea for another project pops into your head, so you find yourself starting the new project rather than finish the first.

• You have a day where you check the emails, make a phone call, do some paperwork, check the emails, make a phone call, do some paperwork…  It can feel like you going round and round and not getting anywhere.

• You leave home during revenue-generating working hours to run to the store, drop off some work or do some other errand. And then the next day you have to go out again because you forgot to do something the day before.

What can you do to be more organized?

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