Yesterday I watched a new show on the Food Network called “24 hour Restaurant Battle.” (Watching the Food Network doesn’t make me a good cook, but it inspires me to be a good cook.)  On the show, two teams have 24 hours to create and open a restaurant. The winning team earns $10,000.
In the episode [...]

Myth #1 Soon we’ll be paperless.
We won’t be completely paperless for a long time. The technology isn’t the problem…it’s human nature. We’re creatures of habit and we like to print and save paper.

Myth #2 You have to be born organized to be organized. We learn both good and bad habits [...]

It’s easy to confuse perfectionism with organization. You know those people who appear to be organized on the surface, yet their perfectionism keeps them from being organized? Recognizing the difference between the two can help anyone become more productive.

Perfectionists do only the tasks they can do perfectly, while ignoring tasks they don’t do as well, [...]

Over the years, I’ve seen home offices that were disaster areas and others that needed only a bit of fine-tuning. What the owners of these home offices had in common was that they were fighting their natural working styles. Everyone works differently and falls into one of five working styles, depending upon the time of [...]