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Maintaining Your New System
Organized Categories
How to Set Up Hanging File Folder Tabs
Tackling Those Piles of Paper Feng Shui
The Art of Feng Shui ~ Introduction
The Art of Feng Shui: The Five Elements Closet Reorganization
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Follow The Paper
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Red Pencil Fever Update
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Maintaining Your New System
by Ellen K. Jordan
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When you pay your bills, file your paperwork. Sounds
like a double chore, but in fact, that is the time you know where
everything should go. Does it go in your file for taxes? Does it go in
your file for miscellaneous? etc. It is just one more step when paying
bills, but what did you do before?
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When you do your taxes also purge your files and store
them in the same format as you used to file these papers. When you need to
go back to them for tax reasons, they will already be in order and make it
easier for you to find them. This will also keep your files from getting
too tight and making it difficult to file new papers.
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Things do get misfiled no matter how efficient we are,
so if you put your sub-categories in alphabetical order, it will be easier
for you to find the culprit.
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When things get overwhelming, don’t beat up on your
inabilities, excuse yourself from the task and take an intermission. Than
come back and you will find yourself refreshed. If not, reschedule the
task for another day. Face the task, it will not go away, the sooner you
do the hard part, the easier the next task becomes.
Things to Remember:
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Carefully choose your supplies. Some supplies help us
and some supplies do not, they can cause distractions and even add to the
clutter.
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Include others, even your children, in some part of
setting up the filing system, so they may learn from you.
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The process of classifying your paperwork forms the
basis of your filing system.
Some items will organize themselves do to the nature of the category they
are in. Go with the flow and see how it works.
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