485 - Organizing Paper Management
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast series, we've been talking about essential organizing. You can catch up on this series by listening to these episodes:
This week, we are moving to organizing your paper management in our quest for functional organization in your home. You know how much I love to talk about paper organization! People are FINALLY coming around to the fact that paper is not going away, and it needs to be organized. You could organize your paper first or last, and you could also choose to only organize portions of your paper.
We found in our research study that 54% of people have piles of paper everywhere. Only 18% of people have a system in place for organizing that paper. In addition, 70% of Millenials perceive a reduction in stress when their paper is organized. You see, we all have paper. You could have less paper, but you're never going to be paperless.
Paper is different than other areas of your home. It's different because 85% of what you store in your filing cabinet you will NEVER need again. The remaining 15% is paper that you do need and you need to be able to find it when you go looking for it. You only go looking for these important papers when there's a problem. Binders are the solution! Trust me, your future self in crisis will thank you when you have your paper organized and can find what you need.
But here's the other problem you will run into with paper: Only about 20% of what I suggest that you put into your binders is actually in your filing cabinet or it is actually paper at all. The other 80% of what needs to be in your binders is either on the computer where only you know how to find it or it is stored in your brain. If something happens to you, how does anyone else take care of anything in your home or for your family?
In this episode, you'll find encouragement for why and how to get your paper organized.
Are your papers organized? What is keeping you from organizing your paper?
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| 0:00.0 | This week's meal bag comes to us from Pam. |
| 0:03.5 | Lisa, you are so awesome. |
| 0:05.9 | I just love you. |
| 0:07.3 | You crack me up. |
| 0:09.4 | You are so sensible and logical and I love that. |
| 0:13.0 | Everything you say just resonates with me. |
| 0:15.6 | Your honesty is so enlightening. |
| 0:17.6 | I love that you admit that you eat fast food often. |
| 0:21.0 | I live in California so no one ever admits to eating fast food even occasionally. |
| 0:26.6 | I love that you admit you would love a spring break alone at home where everyone would |
| 0:32.1 | leave. |
| 0:33.1 | I have always felt that way even though I love my family and we were close and everyone |
| 0:37.8 | looked at me like I was the devil. |
| 0:39.8 | I love how you are there for Abby and Grayson but definitely have boundaries. |
| 0:44.6 | I have the Sunday basket and it has changed my life. |
| 0:48.6 | It has taken a year but I have finally moved my file cabinet contents into binders. |
| 0:54.4 | It's amazing. |
| 0:56.0 | I work part-time out of my home and my youngest is just out of college. |
| 1:00.0 | I am super, super clean and organize everywhere in my house. |
| 1:04.4 | Draws, closets, cupboards, but my desk, files were my albatross and it has taken many years |
| 1:11.1 | to finally have time to fix it. |
| 1:13.5 | I am trying to refine our emergency plan and the binders were part of it. |
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