Streamline Your Printing Cartridge Costs

Any way you slice it – - – a busy home office; just a simple computer and printer; or a small business bustling with printer stations – - – printing can get expensive! Printer cartridges add up to a small fortune and they always run out just when you need to print one thing. If you are organized enough, you can be better prepared. And if you are a thrifty consumer, then you better know about Cartridge World.

In graduate school our text books were online. Being a visual leaner, I had to print out all my books and materials. I credit Cartridge World with helping me through graduate school. And when I met Nancy Mehta, our Little Miss Efficiency printers have been in love with Cartridge World ever since.

Cartridge World is the world’s fastest growing ink and toner refilling retailer. They refill and re-manufacture inkjet and toner printer cartridges, using state-of-the-art processes and high quality inks and toners. In the Valley, Nancy and Sham Mehta own two Cartridge World’s and they offer the best cartridges around. With their 100% satisfaction-money-back guarantee, the Mehtas will not only delivery qualifying cartridge orders to your door, but their stores help the environment by keeping cartridges out of landfills. Cartridge World was voted #1 in the category of toner replacement services by Entrepreneur Magazine for 2010

With two stores conveniently located in the Valley, Cartridge World is the ONLY cartridge provider for our business and our clients. I guarantee their prices cannot be beat and their customer service is stupendous.

Like myself, Mehta is an ambassador with the Henderson Chamber of Commerce; as well as a member of the Billionaire Business Club and many other networking groups. So many that Mehta is the author of the popular weekly, Nancy’s Networking Newsletter, which highlights networking events. The Mehtas are originally from Connecticut and have two sons who are both planning on becoming doctors. Their daughter and her husband gave them their first grandchild who just turned one. You can visit Nancy’s Cartridge World store at http://www.cartridgeworld.com/usa/usa781/ or phone them direct with your printer model and cartridge numbers to compare your savings at 702.586.0634.

Contact Wendy on how to organize and streamline your printing zone, or for other printing productivity tips at www.littlemissefficiency.com. You can also email info@littlemissefficiency.com or call us locally 702.673.0624.

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Not Your Ordinary File System!

Did you ever think filing and paper management could be fun and colorful? With the MyVitalFiles® system, you will find a little pep in your step. These artfull-designed folders are like no other. They are uniquely designed to allow titles to sit above the top edge of a hanging file folder – eliminating the need for plastic tabs and making inserts.

This beautiful filing system contains 80 decorative, color-coded, collated, pre-labeled file folders, 10 blank folders, two sheets of 22 additional labels, one sheet of 22 blank labels, and a reference guide.  The system automatically aligns all of your labels in categorical groupings. Each of the 80 pre-labeled and 10 unlabeled folders is reversible – with  different colors inside and out, for more flexibility.  

All of the Little Miss Efficiency files are in MyVitalFiles®. For four years, even before our company began, we started creating our business files with MyVitalFiles®. They are simply beautiful to look at and creative clients absolutely love them for their own paper-organizing efforts. These files are also perfect for your desktop “hot” files!

Peggy and Steve Thayer created and trademarked the brilliant MyVitalFiles® system. are color-coded filing system designed for simplicity, efficiency, and organization. Steve is a Certified Financial Planner and psychotherapist, and Peggy is a graphic designer.

After Peggy’s father had passed away and she had to assister her mother pull together the necessary paperwork for the lawyer, accountant, insurance company, bank and other agencies requiring assorted documents pertaining to the settlement of his estate. Peggy found herself drowning in a sea of 52 years of papers, files and folders! Peggy felt compelled to put her home filing system into a physical form that was smart, stylish and simple to use…and MyVitalFiles®  was born. You can visit Peggy and her husband at www.myvitalfiles.com

Contact Wendy on ordering her all-time favorite MyVitalFiles®,  or for her specialized filing tips at www.littlemissefficiency.com. You can also email info@littlemissefficiency.com or call us locally 702.673.0624 for file systems set up.  If you would like to learn more about organizing or hiring your own professional organizer to get your files in order, please contact Little Miss Efficiency.

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A New Way to File

When you mention “filing” few positive emotions and reactions come to mind…unless you are professional organizer. For years, my trusty label-maker and I have brought order to countless client’s personal and professional files. But Karen Roehl’s invention, called FIFI™ — File It and Find It™ — just goes to show you that you CAN even teach an old dog new tricks! With FIFI™, there really is no need for a label maker or file indices (the tabs that insert into files.)

Roehl’s (FIFI™) is a color-coded filing system designed for simplicity, efficiency, and organization.  It comes ready to use with existing home or small business filing systems.  FIFI™ can also be used to create a new filing system.  Whether you are incorporating FIFI™ into an existing system or creating a new system, set up FIFI™ and literally you are ready to File It and Find It™!

What I love about FIFI™,  is its simplicity, uniformity and colors. Rather than over categorize your files, a common mistake, FIFI™ has the basic necessities for any home filing system. FIFI™ had done the work for you.  Anyone who uses it has an instant filing system that is easy to follow! FIFI™ only needs a box of files and a drawer or file crate to work with. The hard cardboard card stand up beautifully and uniformly in hanging file folders (as shown above.)

Karen Roehl, owner of Clear Living®, Inc., is a Clarity Coach and Life Organizer who has helped individuals, families, and businesses to clarify their lives for more than 10 years. She is passionate about helping individuals and families to clear their clutter and get organized in their personal and professional lives. She brings a unique and compassionate approach to those wanting to create a new reality with their paper, space, time, and projects. You can visit her at www.clearliving.biz.

Contact Wendy on ordering her favorite FIFI™,  or for her simple tactics on filing at www.littlemissefficiency.com. You can also email info@littlemissefficiency.com or call us locally 702.673.0624 for file systems set up.  If you would like to learn more about organizing or hiring your own professional organizer to get your files simplified and in order, please contact Little Miss Efficiency.

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David Allen’s Getting Things Done – The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

One of my newest, favorite books is David Allen’s Getting Things Done – The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. GTD, the popular shorthand for Getting Things Done, is really the gold standard in personal management and is used by the world’s best and brightest executives and companies. Learn how to get meaningful things done with the least amount of invested attention and energy!

Allen simplifies the concept of every day work and all the “stuff” that goes with those responsibilities. At one time or another we are all guilty of inappropriately managing commitments. But GTD helps you inventory them and review them in a more systematic way. Allen’s GTD helps you get “on your game” with “six horizons” of commitments to follow: purpose, vision, goals, areas of focus, projects, and actions.

The human brain has limited capabilities when it comes to holding information. This especially rings true for me, with my own short-term memory issues. Allen eloquently describes how to capture your “incompletes” and “open loops” while establishing a “collection bucket” to get it all done in the most productive fashion.

Use this book’s common sense to inventory and organize all your commitments. If you would like to learn more about David Allen and his GTD phenomenon, visit his website at http://www.davidco.com/what_is_gtd.php.  If you would like to learn more about being more productive or working with your own personal organizing coach, please contact Little Miss Efficiency’s at 702.673.0624 or info@littlemissefficiency.com

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Organize Your Critical Life Information Electronically

 

You’ve got multiple passwords, log on ids, their particular website portals, telephone numbers, bank account information, spouse’s information, kids’ information…all floating around in your head. Hopefully you remember it all, all the time, right? What do you do when you’re on the road, stuck at the office, or need critical medical information at the hospital? What do you do when you need these tidbits of information right now? If you are tired of personal papers all over the place and want to start moving to a more convenient, electronic lifestyle, I have the software for you!

After all, an efficient document storage system is one of the best ways to stay organized. Ease the overwhelming task of organizing your information clutter with Orggit – the online, ddigital filing cabinet with 56 customizable tabs and storage space for approximately 10,000 documents. And up to 10 family members, with individual access rights can be added.

From vital health information to everyday passwords, Orggit will help you manage life’s most important information, securely, in one convenient place. Orggit has a simple interface with four distinct sections–Wallet, Medical, Accounts and Codes, and Filing Cabinet. The information is stored securely and there is an iPhone app so it is completely mobile. Orggit seems mission critical for parents, teachers, students, caregivers, and your financial advisors.

Think about you and your family’s current document management process. If it is not working, Orggit can ultimately save you time searching for missing information and sorting through the disorganized information clutter. Orggit has aautomatic reminders for the expiration of your driver’s license, credit cards and passport too. The benefits are endless and very affordable at $49 annually.

If you would like to learn more about Orggit, check out their website at www.orggit.com. If you would like to learn more about how to organize your important life documents, please contact LME directly at 702.673.0624 or info@littlemissefficiency.com Written by Wendy A. Miller, CEO and Founder of Little Miss Efficiency, wwwlittlemisseffiency.com, 702.673.0624. COPYRIGHT: This article may not be reprinted or quoted anywhere without written permission.  This email is protected by copyright. Copying of this article – or of any works presented or recommended by Wendy A. Miller – is strictly prohibited. These works may not be reprinted in any form on any website, blog, book, ebook, or any other form without the express written permission of Wendy A. Miller. All rights reserved.

Simplifying Your Morning Routine and Organising Your Closet

According to the New York Times, IKEA did a survey of customers in which 31% reported they were more satisfied after cleaning out their closets than they were after sex. Wow. Now I’m pretty sure everyone is not as delighted as I am about organisation. But the stats do have a point about being organised…especially when it comes to getting dressed and out the door in the mornings.

Patty Klochko wrote a delightful book called “Dressed & Out the Door in 5 Minutes or Less” which covers this same topic of streamlining your mornings, how you get dressed, and organising your closet. Unlike other professional organisers and organising TV shows, Klochko’s process does not make you empty your entire closet all at once! In the book, Klochko discusses a life-changing and money-saving system for tracking your wardrobe and making the process of getting dressed simpler. Patty’s tips are unique and down to earth, as her book is an easy read with 125 pages, including indexes. Her book helps you eliminate closet stresses, clutter and chaos and makes getting dressed effortless. Her quotations about women, clothes and getting dressed are delightful and her detailed inventory assessment is a must for every woman’s closet.

Our October De-Clutter Meetup Workshop will be discussing Klochko’s ideas as well as her book. Please order a copy of Klochko’s book and save your sanity, wardrobe and closet at www.DressedIn5.com

If you would like to learn more about how to organise your closets or better manage your time and space  call Little Miss Efficiency Organising Services and Consulting for a consultation at 702.673.0624 or info@littlemissefficiency.com. You can also listen to Little Miss Efficiency Organising Services and Consulting’s radio appearances that stream live worldwide, on KLAV 1230 AM – The Talk of Las Vegas at www.littlemissefficiency.com. Just click on the KLAV link.

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Start Getting Home Mail Clutter under Control

The average American receives 568 pieces of mail annually, and 49,060 pieces of mail in their lifetime; one third of it is junk mail. . Tax dollars spent to dispose of junk mail: $320 million.

 

Sad facts indeed! But there are steps you can take to get your paper clutter and mail organised and in order. Here are three simple, but important decisions your home needs to make to move forward on mail clutter :

 

•  Determine one person, who will be the designated “mail person”

 

•  Determine and stick to one pick up time daily, for your daily mail deliveries (this can be someone besides the “mail person”)

 

•  Determine, set and stick to only one designated location in your home to do daily “washing and ironing” of your home’s mail (hallway, garage, office)

 

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Stop Letting Time Escape You

Better time management is something you must work on every day. If you feel like that hamster on the wheel, it’s definitely time for a mindset change. Time is not the villain. You can control it. Just be vigilant with protecting your time and meeting all your deadlines. It will not just magically improve for you in one day. Here are some baby steps to get better at managing your schedule and getting it all done.

 

IDENTIFY PEAK PRODUCTIVITY TIMES

Consider when you are the most/least productive. Are you are morning person? A night owl? When are you most motivated and have the most energy? When you are feeling your best, that is your best, personal productive time. If you schedule a task that you truly dislike during a time when you are least productive it’s unlikely the task will ever get done.

 

WHEN ARE YOU AT YOUR BEST

Do most tedious or difficult tasks then. Like reports, expense reports, paperwork you hate etc.  But schedule that task when you are  the most productive and you will be sure to get it done quickly, with less mistakes and a better attitude. Listen to your moods.

 

TIME LOG

How much time do things really take? For two days, jot down what you are doing, when you are doing it and how long it is taking you. This time log is more than likely to surprise you. You will see how much time is wasted in many unexpected ways. Often it appears that the busier you feel the more time is wasted.

 

If you would like to learn more about time management, and how  to better organise your time, call Little Miss Efficiency Organising Services and Consulting for a consultation at 702.673.0624 or info@littlemissefficiency.com. You can also listen to Little Miss Efficiency Organising Services and Consulting’s radio appearances that stream live worldwide, on KLAV 1230 AM – The Talk of Las Vegas at www.littlemissefficiency.com. Just click on the KLAV link.

 

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What does it mean to be organised really?

So what does it mean to be organised? Being organised is more than just being neat, and having things tidy. It’s about finding what you need, when you need it, where you need it …or use it for that matter.

 

So if you always take your shoes off in the first floor home office, and that is the last place you always go on your way out the door, you should probably have a closed cabinet shoe storage area in that office.  If you always open your mail in the garage, every day, then you should have a shredder and mail sorting system in the garage.

 

When you are better organised, life is easier. You don’t have to hunt all over the place looking for things. You have the tools you need, when and where you need them. You wouldn’t want your wardrobe on the 1^st floor, if you always get dressed in your master bedroom on the 2^nd floor, would you?

 

Organising does take time, but the benefit outweighs the chaos and stress of searching for things. Being organised means you have permanent homes for everything, so there is no question where something goes.

 

If you would like to learn more about productivity or enlisting in the help of a professional organiser,  call Little Miss Efficiency Organising Services and Consulting for a consultation at 702.673.0624 or info@littlemissefficiency.com. You can also listen to Little Miss Efficiency Organising Services and Consulting past appearances that stream live worldwide, on KLAV 1230 AM – The Talk of Las Vegas at www.littlemissefficiency.com. Just click on the KLAV link.

 

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Do You “Popcorn” Your Time Away?

 

Multi-tasking is great, but studies show you can accomplish more if you focus on one thing, until it is completed. Can you guess the number of times an average American worker gets interrupted in one day? “The average American worker has 50 interruptions a day, 70% which have nothing to do with work,” according to W. Edwards Deming

 

Popcorning it means as things come up, you take care of them. So much that you have no finished projects. So rather than being preventative, you are being reactive. This means you never finish a thing you want to, because you are too busy putting out those proverbial fires.

 

A study by Basex found that office distractions ate up to 2.1 hours a day for the average worker. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, found that once you are interrupted, at any given time it takes you 25 minutes to return to the original task…if you return at all and don’t zig zag your time. The cost of interruptions to the U.S. economy is estimated at $588 billion dollars annually. To me, multi-tasking is like watching the puck in a hockey game. You go all over the place, just focusing all over that ice…never getting the full picture of the play.

 

Time Magazine tells us that, yes indeed, multitasking can be bad for you. Individuals that fill every quiet moment with a phone call or some kind of

e-stimulation may not get a chance to ever focus on one thing and finish it. Habitual multi-tasking may condition your brain to an overexcited state, making it very difficult to focus even when you want to.

 

Here are three basic tips to help you better manage your time.

 

1) Choose your calendar wisely and stick with it

It sounds simple, but many don’t think about how important your physical calendar is to your work and personal life. Your calendar, really is the basis or backbone, if you will, of all your time management, tasks and to do lists. Now that could be a paper planner or an electronic one. Either are good investments and you should choose a system that you will use exclusively and consistently.

 

2) Make dates with yourself

I know it sounds weird, but your most important projects need to get penciled in on your calendar….like a date. Otherwise your project will not get the necessary face time with you.

 

3) Saying “No” is Not Always a Bad Thing

We say “yes” to others because we want to please them. But when we can’t continue, we let them down and we feel guilty. Both parties suffer. This type of cycle can repeat and is ultimately a big energy zapper and time waster. Make sure you understand exactly what is being asked of you before you respond. Perhaps the task is more time consuming than you thought.

 

If you would like to learn more the Recipe Nest or organising your kitchen’s recipes,  call Little Miss Efficiency Organising Services and Consulting for a consultation at 702.673.0624 or info@littlemissefficiency.com. You can also listen to Little Miss Efficiency Organising Services and Consulting past appearances that stream live worldwide, on KLAV 1230 AM – The Talk of Las Vegas at www.littlemissefficiency.com. Just click on the KLAV link.

 

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