Creating the right kind of workspace environment is essential to success. Regardless of whether you are running a home business or working from home full time, your office needs to be a place that is functional and conducive to productivity. You can take just a few easy steps to make your workspace more productive. 1. Purge This type of purge is completely nonviolent. Remove anything from your work area that isn’t work related. If you are trying to use your work area as a sto

Working from the comfort of your home is a dream that so many are chasing in 2020. With the popular trend, I want to let you in on the tools that I have found to be most successful in helping my work from home experience. Below are five tools that can improve overall productivity and organization in your work from home experience. Wunderlist Here comes my obsession… LIST MAKING. Wunderlist is an easy way to organize and create lists. You can make to-do lists, add items with d

We are closing on December. As a working professional that means it is time to work on checking of your end of year task list. But this can often be overwhelming if you aren’t prepared or maybe unsure where to start because there is so much going on. Instead of running around trying to figure out where to start, take these few tips as a guideline. Review Accomplishments and Create Goals Whether you had a stellar or poor year of business, there is always room for improvement i

How many of you have read Tim Ferris’ book, The 4 Hour Work Week? If you haven’t yet, it’s a great book dedicated to finding the ideal balance between work and pleasure. It’s revolutionary and makes you sit back to evaluate the “rules” you’ve likely followed your entire life. You evaluate how and when you work, it is well worth the read and I suggest it to all who are reading this post, right now. What I love about his book is he dedicates an entire chapter to the Virtual As

Email Clutter! What does your email box look like? Is it filled with week old emails or is it filtered through and neatly filed into the nice organized folders? I’m just curious. When those great project offerings come through from Milrich, are you always missing the opportunity because they are buried amongst the junk “mail” or are you able to snatch them right up because they jump right out at you from that crystal clear inbox of yours? Let me spill it on disorganized inbox

There is no doubt that organization fosters success. The less organized your mind and environment, the more hurdles and delays on your path to success. Spending unnecessary time and efforts looking for things, catching up on work, and sifting through piles only makes you less productive and unhappy. Happy, productive people are successful people! Bogged Down Brain I’m sure there is a study somewhere to back up the science of organization but do we really need a group of scien

Your client depends on you to be available, capable, and most of all to keep your level of productivity high. It is vital that they see you as an integral part of their successful business, and more effective virtually than you would be in the physical office. We all want to be the best at our job and be viewed as irreplaceable. Sometimes, the lack of competition and recognition that comes with a conventional office setting can leave us wondering how we stack up. If being the

Creating the right kind of workspace environment is essential to success. Regardless of whether you are running a home business or working from home full time, your office needs to be a place that is functional and conducive to productivity. You can take just a few easy steps to make your workspace more productive. 1. Purge This type of purge is completely nonviolent. Remove anything from your work area that isn’t work related. If you are trying to use your work area as a sto

There are ways to get creative when it comes to making a hybrid home office. Reclaiming, refurbishing, and DIYs are all the rage. You probably have a Pinterest board full of ideas right now. Some projects that you’d love to do, some you’ve started and not finished, some that didn’t turn out quite the way you’d hoped, some that you’ll never do and the ones that turned out amazing. Whether we want to hang on to items for their charm, the emotional attachment, or because we can’

Working from a home office can be a challenge if you don’t have a lot of workspace. It is important to maximize your space so that you do not feel cramped or overwhelmed. The less clutter and more free workspace you have the less likely you are to feel frustrated or have accidents. Here are some simple ways to create more workspace in your home office. #1 – Work With What You Have It does not matter if your home office is a corner in your bedroom, a wall in the kitchen, or it

Have you ever heard of a clean desk policy? If you haven’t, a clean desk policy it is a policy that all employees must leave their desk free of all papers, documents, sticky notes, etc. at the end of the work day. These policies are being implemented in companies to ensure the security of confidential documents. While that is important to businesses and clients, a clean desk policy may also have positive effects for its employees as well. Here’s how: 1. Money and Time Saver H

There are two types of people, the Meticulous Marthas, and the Messy Marvins. Organization does not come naturally to everyone and I guarantee at some point in your life whether it was cleaning up the office or the home, you’ve thought about throwing it all out and starting over. The great news is that you don’t have to be a Martha to get organized. You don’t need to label everything in sight and you don’t need an unsightly mountain of storage bins. Here are some simple trick