How to Organize Your Home Office: 15 tips

how to organize your home office

Do you feel rather disorganized with some aspect of your home office? Perhaps you’re a hoarder of papers, like I am, and you don’t always file documents properly. Or maybe your email inbox is unwieldy. Or perhaps your entire home office is a bit of a disaster zone.  Regardless, you’re wondering how to organize your home office… and finally get your home office under control.

There is nothing shameful about it when things are a little chaotic in the environment around us. It might seem as though things are far beyond your control, but that is not the case. 

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Begin Your Biz in 15 Minutes/Day: Your Freelancing Tips Starter Kit

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Guess what? You can now get a book version of our Begin Your Biz Challenge!

Cue confetti and streamers.

I’m so delighted to be able to share this little volume with you. I’ve hosted the Begin Your Biz Challenge for two years and it just felt like the right time to turn some of our most popular monthly themes into a book.

This book, Begin Your Biz in 15 Minutes/Day: Your Freelancing Tips Starter Kit, includes a year’s worth of daily 15-minute action steps you can take for your business.

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Effective time management strategies: 21 days of better time management

They say it takes 21 days to build a habit. If time management is something you struggle with, then why not take the next three weeks to turn that all around? Use these effective time management strategies to make small changes, every day, that add up to big results! You’ll have better time management in your business in no time.

Even better? Each one of these effective time management strategies will take you just 10 or 20 minutes to accomplish, so regardless of how chaotic your day-to-day life is, you can absolutely carve out room for it. And by the end of the 21 days,

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Improve time management with these 7 questions

Managing a freelance business can be overwhelming for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest is that so many freelancers have no idea where they should spend their time… and, as a result, they end up wasting a lot of time. But no more! Ask yourself the 7 questions in this blog post to help you identify where YOU should spend your time, depending on your unique business and the type of services you offer… so you can finally improve time management in your business.

But first, a little tough love that you might need to hear: as a freelancer,

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How to automate your small business: step-by-step guide

You know you could save time and work more efficiently by streamlining and automating aspects of your small business… but how do you go about doing that? I’m breaking it all down for you in this article to teach you exactly how to automate your small business!

Automating and streamlining processes in your business is especially useful for navigating the busy times of your business, or when you’re going on holidays, or even when you have something stressful in your personal life that’s impacting your business.

The sooner you learn how to automate your small business,

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Reduce business overwhelm in 15 minutes/day

Business overwhelm is a reality for all of us—regardless of how good you might be at time management. Luckily, there are strategies you can implement to help reduce business overwhelm in your life.

This blog post outlines what you can do, step by step, to reduce business overwhelm. As you’ll see, there are many things you can do… so to keep yourself from getting even more overwhelmed, consider breaking these ideas down by doing just one or two tasks each day!

Each of the tips below can be done in just 5—15 minutes each day,

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How to have more productive business meetings

Whether you’re a solopreneur, in a business partnership, or part of a larger team, business meetings matter. Productive business meetings can enable you to have more direction and clarity with your business, improve communication and business relationships, and increase your confidence, motivation, and excitement for moving forward with your business ideas.

The problem? Many business meetings aren’t streamlined enough to be worth it. You’ll know what I’m talking about if you’ve ever sat in a business meeting and asked yourself questions like,

  • “Why are we having this meeting?”
  • “Who’s leading this meeting?”

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Time Management Tips: 5 Steps to Reducing Business Overwhelm

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When most students sign up for one of my freelancer programs, they often do so because they feel overwhelmed and they don’t know what they should focus on first, or what they should spend their time on. It’s hard to know how to manage your time well when you feel as though you’re being pulled in too many different directions! So today, I want to share some of my top time management tips to help you out…

Grab the cheatsheet to save 45+ hours each month >>

The video recording I have for you here today is the replay of a Facebook live video I did on how to improve your time management skills in Brittany Berger’s Unicorn Solopreneurs group,

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How to Get Retainer Clients: Copy & Paste this Step-by-Step Marketing Plan!

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Last week I launched a free video training that’s now available year-round for your viewing! It’s all about how to create a strategic plan of action for your freelance business, so you can get more done in less time and be intentional about every step you take in your business. Even better, it includes an example plan of action for how to get retainer clients in 12 weeks that you can basically copy and paste into your own business!

The bootcamp features step-by-step instructions for exactly what you could be doing every single week to build relationships with prospects,

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Working full-time and running a small business on the side? Here’s how to do it…

There just are NOT enough hours in the day. And especially when you’re working full-time and running a small business on the side, it can feel nearly impossible to do anything besides work, work, work! Are youworking full-time and running a small business on the side? Feeling as though you have ZERO time to make it work? Getting overwhelmed with it all? Use these 5 tips to make managing your side business that much easier... even if you have a hectic full-time job!

Grab your checklist for preparing to work from home full-time >>

Luckily, it IS possible to work full-time at a 9 to 5 job while managing your home-based business on the side.

Yes, really!

In fact, I did it for years.

I built up my freelance business while I was working a stressful,

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