This is Stevea Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Listener Chris wrote in and asked,

I'm a traveling healthcare worker in my car, is basically my office.

Any tips for those of us in the world of rolling offices to be more efficient and have our

car not be so cluttered?

Ah, Chris, you bring back memories of the good

old days, living in my car, sleeping in the back seat, barbecuing over a campfire, having friends

crowd in the back seat for a party until 4 a.m. Those were the days, said no one ever.

The problem with cars is that there just isn't room for everything we need.

You can't fit filing cabinets, large computer monitors, beer pong tables, or even a disco ball.

But yet, we need those things to be a productive space.

Now, I haven't actually run a business out of a car, but here's how I would organize things.

And I love the way that you

call your business mobile health care. Oh, wink, wink. Yes, officer, I'm just delivering prescription

herbs. And that, well, that's a talcum powder to help me deal with chafing. My mental image

of your car is that it's full of files and paperwork that relate to your clients

and your business. It also has assorted rubber hoses, face masks, harnesses, and little devices

that make beeping sounds when you connect them to a patient, like in the movies. Broadly speaking,

you need to organize your papers and your things. As I discussed in my episode on keeping

your online and offline files in sync,

I recommend using the exact same groupings when you organize both the physical and the paper items.

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