Organization
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The modern office isn't quite a wretched hive of scum and villainy, but it's not always pleasant, either. If your workspace, your co-workers, or your sinking feeling of not getting anything done needs fixing, here are ten possible remedies. You can only tell everybody you work with about your sleepless nights, your headache, and other self-handicapping excuses for so long, before everybody just starts putting your skills and competency at the level you've set with your frequent tales of woe. If you really do end up staying up all night due to the neighbors' alarm, try to get someone else to deliver your rough condition for you—a co-worker, a spouse, anybody except you, the person who's always got an "If I didn't" story.
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The End-All Guide to Getting Out From Under Your Office Crap
Everyone has to deal with clutter; some people just deal with it more successfully thanks to the way they were raised, their own personal tolerance for disarray, or by teaching themselves one good habit at a time to get it under control. You're not a bad person or terminally disorganized if your office is a mess right now. You're simply a person who hasn't taken the time to learn new habits that help you keep your office as organized as you'd like.
Use a Daily Log to Keep Yourself Focused on Productivity
Everybody wants to be more productive, and you can find loads of tools and systems designed to help you do just that. But how do you measure your productivity in any given day? That's where a daily log comes in handy. Keep a Log of Everything Useful You've Accomplished You might be tempted to simply use your to-do list's completed items view to track what you've accomplished, but you'd be fooling yourself—between co-workers bugging us, unexpected problems arising, and just plain old procrastination, the difference between what we check off our daily to-do list and what we actually do can be huge. A lot of the things you accomplish may never make it to your to-do list.