In this Issue:

Success Quote:
great treasure there behind our skull

Special Promotions

B2B Article:
Get the Cow off Your Desk And the Monkey off Your Back- Part three of eight

B2B Article 2:
How to get started on clearing paper clutter

Improve Productivity In Less Than An Hour

What's New:
Links to Resources and Additional Event Listings
New organizing team members joined us

Testimonials:
Thank you so much for following up

Featured Business
It's A Party

Holidays and Important Dates

Sponsors

Joke of the month:
One Liners

Workshops, seminars etc..

Organizing  Products
Priority Folders
Basic Residential Filing System
Ultimate Business Filing System
Ultimate Residential Filing System 
Vital Business Information
Vital Family Information

Holidays and Important Dates October 2006
October Monthly Observances
Adopt A Shelter Dog Month
Billiard Awareness Month
Celebrate Sun Dried Tomatoes Month
Celiac Sprue Awareness Month
Children's Magazine Month
Church Safety and Security Month
Class Reunion Month
Gay & Lesbian History Month
German-American Heritage Month
Go Hog Wild - Eat Country Ham
Halloween Safety Month
Head Start Awareness Month
Health Literacy Month
International Starman Month
International Strategic Planning Month
Long Term Care Planning Month
Lupus Awareness Month
National Animal Safety and Protection Month
National Book Month
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
National Caramel Month
National Chili Month
National Communicate With Your Kids Month
National Construction Toy Month
National Cookie Month
National Crime Prevention Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
National Depression Education & Awareness Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
National Down Syndrome Month
National Ergonomics Month
National Family Sexuality Education Month
National "Gain The Inside Advantage" Month
National Go On A Field Trip Month
National Medical Librarian Month
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Pajama Month
National Physical Therapy Month
National Popcorn Poppin' Month
National Pork Month
National Reading Group Month
National Roller Skating Month
National RSV Awareness Month
National Sarcastics Awareness Month
National Seafood Month
National Spina Bifida Awareness Month
National Spinal Health Month
National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month
National Toilet Tank Repair Month
Polish American Heritage Month
Positive Attitude Month
Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
Right Brainers Rule! Month
Self-Promotion Month
Spinach Lovers Month
Talk About Prescriptions Month
Vegetarian Month
Wishbones for Pets Month (10/15 - 11/30)
Women's Small Business Month
Workplace Politics Month


 October Weekly Observances
October 1-7 National Get Organized Week
October 1-7 The LAST week to register to vote in US general elections
October 1-7 Mental Illness Awareness Week
October 1-7 Mystery Series Week
October 1-7 National Carry A Tune Week
October 1-7 Nuclear Medicine Week
October 1-7 National Newspaper Week
October 1-7 National Work From Home Week
October 1-7 Squirrel Appreciation Week
October 1-7 Universal Children's Week
October 2-6 California Ride Share Week
October 2-8 Financial Planning Week
October 2-8 National 4-H Week
October 2-9 No Salt Week
October 2-8 Spinning & Weaving Week
October 3-7 Customer Service Week
October 4-10 World Space Week
October 6-12 Physicians Assistant Week
October 8-15 Emergency Nurses Week
October 8-15 Fire Prevention Week
October 8-15 Home-Based Business Week
October 8-14 National Chestnut Week
October 8-15 National Metric Week
October 8-15 National School Lunch Week (Declared by the President)
October 9-15 Build Your Business with Business Cards Week
October 9-13 Improve Your Home Office Week
October 9-13 National School Lunch Week
October 15-21 Achieve Financial Differences Week
October 15-21 Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
October 15-21 International Credit Union Week
October 15-21 Teen Read Week
October 15-21 National Character Counts Week
October 15-21 National Food Bank Week
October 15-21 National Forest Products Week
October 15-21 National School Bus Safety Week
October 15-21 YMCA Week without Violence
October 16-22 Celebrate Micro Small and Home Business Week
October 16-22 Freedom From Bullies At Work Week
October 16-20 National Businesswomen's Week
October 16-20 National Health Education Week
October 16-20 National Infection Prevention Week
October 16-22 World Rainforest Week
October 22-28 Kids Care Week
October 22-28 Pastoral Care Week
October 22-28 Synergy Week International
October 23-27 Celebrate Job Loss Week
October 23-29 Give Wildlife a Break Week
October 23-29 The Magic of Differences Week
October 23-29 National Save Your Back Week
October 24-30 Disarmament Week
October 24-31 Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week
October 25-31 International Magic Week
October 25-31 Peace, Friendship and Goodwill

Weekly October Daily Observances
October 1 Fire Pup Day
October 1 Intergeneration Day
October 1 International Day of Older Persons
October 1 World Vegetarian Day
October 2 National Custodial Workers Day
October 2 World Farm Animals Day
October 2 Child Health Day
October 2 World Habitat Day
October 4 Ten-Four Day
October 4 Balloons Around The World
October 5 National Depression Screening Day
October 5 World Teachers Day
October 6 Jackie Mayer Rehab Day
October 6 Lee's National Denim Day
October 6 Mad Hatter Day
October 6 National German-American Day
October 6 Physician Assistant Day
October 6 National Diversity Day
October 6 World Smile Day
October 7 International Frugal Fun Day
October 8 Alvin C. York Day
October 8 Cosmopolite's Day
October 9 Leif Erickson Day
October 9 World Post Day
October 9 Columbus Day
October 9 National Kick Butt Day
October 10 Hunter's Moon
October 10 World Mental Health Day
October 11 General Pulaski Memorial Day
October 11 National Coming Out Day
October 11 Emergency Nurses Day
October 11 National Bring Your Teddy Bear To Work & School Day
October 11 International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
October 12 International Moment of Frustration Scream Day
October 13 Navy Birthday
October 13 International Skeptics Day
October 13 World Egg Day
October 13 Be Bald and Be Free Day
October 14 Peace Corps Birthday
October 15 Dictionary Day
October 15 National Grouch Day
October 15 Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
October 15 Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day
October 15 White Cane Safety Day
October 16 Ether Day
October 16 World Food Day
October 16 National Boss's Day
October 17 International Day for the Irradication of Poverty
October 17 Mulligan Day
October 18 Alaska Day
October 18 Black Poetry Day
October 18 National Day of National Concern About Young People & Violence Day
October 18 Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce
October 18 World Menopause Day
October 19 Evaluate Your Life Day
October 19 Get Smart About Credit Day
October 19 Get To Know Your Customers Day
October 19 International Credit Union Day
October 20 Birth of the Bab
October 20 Mammography Day
October 20 Miss American Rose Day
October 21 Reptile Awareness Day
October 21 Sweetest Day
October 22 International Stuttering Awareness Day
October 22 National Color Day
October 22 Mother-in-Law Day
October 23 National Mole Day
October 23 TV Talk Show Host Day
October 24 United Nations Day
October 24 World Development Information Day
October 25 Cartoonists Against Crime Day
October 25 Sourest Day
October 26 Mule Day
October 27 Cranky Co-workers Day
October 27 Frankenstein Friday
October 27 Navy Day
October 28 Make A Difference Day
October 28 National Chocolates Day
October 28 Separation of Church & State Day
October 28 St. Jude's Day
October 29 Internet Day
October 29 Reformation Sunday
October 30 Create A Great Funeral Day
October 30 Devil's Night
October 30 Haunted Refrigerator Night
October 30 National Candy Corn Day
October 30 Zero Tasking Day
October 31 Books for Treats Day
October 31 Halloween
October 31 National Caramel Apple Day
October 31 National Knock-Knock Jokes Day
October 31 National Magic Day (for Houdini)
October 31 National UNICEF Day
October 31 Nevada Day
October 31 Reformation Day
October 31 Samhain
October 31 Scare a Friend Day


Holidays are listed at:
http://www.earthcalendar.net/  and  http://www.brownielocks.com

Success Quote
"There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do."  Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Special Promotion Women's Small Business Month
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Testimonials
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B2B Article
Get the Cow off Your Desk And the Monkey off Your Back- Part three of eight
It’s all about paper flow and time management

The Cow turns into a pile
Gather all your papers and folders into a huge pile.

Assemble the boxes, but leave the lids off. Stand them up on end and label each one with a Post-It type of note: Current Business, Potential Projects, Creative Ideas, Personal, Marketing. You’ll identify your own major topics and no doubt create others as you sort.

Now you have a goal: to handle only once each paper or file in the stack, and put it into the appropriate box. Lay the documents flat on the bottom of the box (it’s open on the side, remember) and place them face down in the new stack. This process will prepare you for the next step of adding these items to your filing system.

continued next month....look for part four.  NOTE* Would you like to have the entire chapter in book form including other chapters from other Executive coaches? (Click here for more information on the Power Tools Book and how to order.)

B2B Article 2
How to get started on clearing paper clutter

What can prevent you from becoming organized?
At a basic level, there is really just a failure to systematize common decisions. Whenever you leave things out, it's because you're not ready to decide what to do with the item. The process of organizing comes down to having a system for automating decisions about where everything goes. You need to have systems that work well for how you think and how you do things. Disorganized people usually do not have systems that work for them if they have systems at all. This makes it so you have to make a decision every time on a case-by-case basis. Eventually this becomes overwhelming, and clutter begins to pile up.

Why do organized people seem to get more done?
Organized people have systems that work for them and tend to make far fewer decisions in the long run. It takes far more time to be disorganized than it does to be organized.

Are you ready to get organized and create greater efficiency in your life?
Let's get to sorting through all those items in your piles of clutter! I recommend that you have several boxes on the floor and begin placing items into the boxes. That means like items with other like items. The key is to sort items in a way that makes sense from a functional standpoint. Ask yourself under what conditions each item would be needed, and sort items by similar conditions. For example, you may have papers that need to be filed, another box might have books and yet another may have items that just don't belong in the room at all. You should also have a trash or recycle receptacle close by.

I would like to caution you to resist the urge to start putting things away until you have complete the "pre-sort". We are going to take a look at why the clutter accumulated because there's usually a good reason why it did. Here is where a professional organizer can help you to evaluate your clutter patterns and help you create systems that will work for you. The key here is learning why these items turned into clutter, even though you know where the items are filed or stored. Can you see where disorganized people can lose lots of time due to inefficiency?

How did this stuff end up as clutter?
It's likely the reason these items ended up as clutter because you didn't have a good system for dealing with them. Maybe there is no system at all and they simply don't have an assigned home. Perhaps the place you file or store them is too inconvenient, so it's easier just to leave them out. For instance, maybe you have items that need to be filed, but you don't yet have a file for them, and your blank file folders are inconveniently stowed away deep in your closet. Ask yourself under what conditions each item might not have ended up as clutter. This will give you a clue as to how to prevent the clutter from returning.

Now I have flow efficiency...
Once you have achieved the flow of systems that work, the greatest benefit will be the achievement of a persistent feeling of flow efficiency. Working in a self-maintaining, uncluttered environment will allow you to be extremely productive while enjoying the process each day.

Is there really professional help available?
If you don't feel your current systems are serving you well, I encourage you to try something new. Let us help you create a feeling of balance without anything important falling through the cracks. 602-orgzanize (602-674-2649)

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What's New at A to Z Organizing Pros®
One New Nationwide Organizing Team Member Joined Us In September
Hendersonville, NC (Metro Area - Asheville, NC)
Residential organizing: Attics/Basements/Garages/Storage, Bathroom, Bedrooms/drawers, Clothes Closet, Kid's Room, Living Room, Paper Filing Systems, Closet , Kitchen, Office (non-business), Personal Coach/Time Management. Business organizing: Office-Work/Business Office, business/personal Coach, Group Training, Meeting Planning, Public Speaking, Time Management
Affiliations: NAPO
"Anna is a very organized young lady who does what needs to be done. I trust her in any situation. Her positive attitude during my need of organization time was greatly appreciated." Becky G.
Professional Organizer since 2004
Organizing in: Arden, NC - Asheville, NC - Brevard, NC - Cashiers, NC - Flat Rock, NC - Greenville, SC - Hendersonville, NC - Toxaway, NC

Links to Resources and Additional Event Listings
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Joke of the month
One Liners
Unless absolutely essential, borrowing to buy a depreciating asset is dumb.

Unless the results are known in advance, funding agencies will reject the proposal.

Urgency varies inversely with importance.

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