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How to Organize Your Office & Life For Peak Productivity

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This means if we are constantly inundated with messes, lost files and forgotten tasks, it can take a toll on our mental state and bring on unnecessary stress. Clutter has even been shown to negatively affect mood, self-esteem and sleep. Things like trash or files from years ago will be easy to toss or place.

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These 4 Small, Consistent Changes Helped Me Reach My Potential

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Gratitude has been proven to improve self-esteem, potentially help you sleep better and even improve your overall well-being. If I have any thoughts about what I need “future me” to do, I write them down on a piece of paper (or text file on my laptop) and push it out of my mind. Start exercising first thing in the morning.

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Feeling Stressed at Work? Is it you? Is it them? (Information Overwhelm)

Office Dynamics

Are you afraid to file something because you will forget where you put it? This type of stress is unnecessary and not only derails your day but negatively affects your self esteem. Each file drawer should have a minimum of two inches of room in it or it will be too difficult and stressful to put files into it.

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Feeling Stressed at Work? Is it you? Is it them? (Information Overwhelm)

Office Dynamics

Are you afraid to file something because you will forget where you put it? This type of stress is unnecessary and not only derails your day but negatively affects your self esteem. Each file drawer should have a minimum of two inches of room in it or it will be too difficult and stressful to put files into it.

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Not Just a Secretary

Office Dynamics

My self-esteem grew by leaps and bounds as I became more active in IAAP. Joanne, along with Linda McFarland, is the author of the book “Sitting on a File Cabinet, Naked, With a Gun: True Stories of Silicon Valley CEO Assistants.”. I did this by becoming a member of IAAP. Connect at: Joanne.Linden@PlanetAdmin.net.

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Not Just a Secretary

Office Dynamics

My self-esteem grew by leaps and bounds as I became more active in IAAP. Joanne, along with Linda McFarland, is the author of the book “Sitting on a File Cabinet, Naked, With a Gun: True Stories of Silicon Valley CEO Assistants.”. I did this by becoming a member of IAAP. Connect at: Joanne.Linden@PlanetAdmin.net.

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Warning! Have You Become a Toxic Sponge?

On The Job

I absorbed the mental and emotional blows of a workplace gone bad, trying to shore up each co-worker's battered self-esteem as well as my own. These sponges can be rank-and-file workers -- as I was -- or they may be in management. I was taking on not only the unhappiness of my own situation, but that of others.