Archive for 2008/02


The Simplifier #57 is Online

The fifty-seventh issue of the Project Simplify newsletter The Simplifier is now archived on our newsletter archives page.
Here is a brief summary of the contents:
1. A Note From Shawn
Making headlines
2. Our Featured Quote
by Lily Tomlin
3. Article: Turning On the Easy Access Station
by PS Head Simplifier Shawn Tuttle
4. This Week’s Simplification Tip
Naming File Folders - When […]

The not-wireless office

I look forward to the wireless office. It decidedly is not happening in my space. Wire to the external speakers, usb cable to the printer, power cord for the laptop juice, wire for the phone headset… these string across the desk even if everything else is put away.
Clean desk challenge numero 12–not one of […]

Turning On the Easy Access Station

This article was originally posted in The Simplifier #57.
Article: Turning On the Easy Access Station
By Shawn Tuttle
Just think if all of your dishes, pots, pans, utensils, plates, and mixing bowls were spread all over the counter. You’d come in the kitchen for a bite to eat and hunt around for a fork. You just saw […]

Is the business card on its way out?

I just stumbled across the Small Business Trends blog which had a post called Top Experts Dish with their Best Kept Marketing Secrets from last month.
The overarching theme had to do with relationships–listening and service. Gone are the days of “low prices” as the way to go.
Here’s the one that particularly caught my […]

Clean desk #11

So much happens in a day that I 1. don’t know where to start when sitting down to write my post, and 2. am just plain tuckered out and would rather go to bed than figure out what to write or find some other fascinating site to blog about.

Front page of the biz section!

Our local paper, The Union, gave fellow organizer Amelia Barrett and myself front page coverage of the Business Section today! The article, by Greg Moberly, is entitled Everything in its Place.
The photo is by The Union’s photographer, John Hart.

The Inbox Zapper

This article was originally published in The Simplifier #54. The Inbox Zapper
By Shawn Tuttle
Disorganization is frequently a mass collection of decisions waiting to be made. Consciously or not, the unanswered questions “Where should I put this?” and “Where is _____ ?” and “What needs to happen first with this?” result in mail, files, and papers […]