How to Reduce Your Clutter and Increase Your Profit$
Have you ever felt totally overwhelmed because you were surrounded by clutter? When you work in a cluttered environment it crowds your thinking and easily distracts you. Not only that clutter wastes your time and your money.
John had an air conditioning business which he ran from his home office.
He found that whenever he didn’t keep his office tidy, his cash-flow would slow down.
When he did his invoicing to clients, he would lose money because he couldn’t include all the costs associated with each job. The paperwork would get buried under all the clutter.
It’s such a simple thing to do …clean up. However many business owners get lazy about doing it. They think it’s unimportant and when they’ve got nothing better to do then they’ll do it.
Being constantly surrounded by clutter causes you to:
- Lose things
- Waste time searching
- Waste money buying what you already have because it’s buried under the mess
- Causes stress
- Makes you look disorganised and unprofessional
Many years ago when I used to go onsite as a professional organiser and help my clients organise their office, I remember one of my clients who was a litigator in a major law firm.
His office looked like a bombsite. There was clutter everywhere. His assistant said she refused to go in there. Why the directors let Gary work that way was ridiculous. He’d been working there for several years and they had let him get out of control. If something happened to Gary there was no way anyone else could find anything.
The company overall must have been losing thousands of dollars in lost productivity because not only was Gary’s office a disaster zone, so were many other areas of the business.
As a small business owner you cannot afford to waste your time and money on clutter. So here’s a simple and easy plan to follow when decluttering your office. Start with no. 1 and continue clearing out each area until completed:
1. Floor
2. Filing Cabinets
3· Bookcases
4· Cupboards
5· Desk
6· Walls
and after you’ve completed the above, clean out your computer.
Make sure you finish cleaning out one area at a time. And by the way …ensure you have a big bin or lots of garbage bags on hand.
The Final Word
People often think that to boost their profitability they need to work harder or get more clients. If they made small improvements to the way they work and how they are currently ‘doing business’ they could easily pump up their profits without working any harder.
You may be so snowed under and overwhelmed running your business that you don’t even know where to start improving it. The Productivity and Profit Home Study System™ includes everything you need to know to clear out the clutter, free up your time, organise your systems and master your marketing so you make much more money and get a life! It’s laid out in a very simple way so you can easily apply what you learn to take your business to the next level. It’s changed the lives of many solopreneurs and small business owners.
Lorraine Pirihi, The Productivity Queen, is Australia’s leading Productivity Specialist and creator of “The Productivity and Profit System TM” the complete one-on-one training program for solopreneurs and small businesses that shows business owners exactly how to work less and earn more! To receive your F.R.E.E. CD & Report “3 Steps to Dramatically Reducing Your Workload and Stress While Maximising Your Profit$! ($77 value) go to www.productivityqueen.com.
