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Volume 64 December 2006

Tips for After Winter Holidays Decoration Storage
Learn Techniques To Double Your Income In 2007
Get the Cow Off Your Desk And The Monkey Off Your Back-part five
Discover Why Goal Setters Succeed
Business Owners & Self Employed- Deductions You Should Be Taking
F R E E  Gift Certificate for Everyone
“TOOT YOUR HORN” - Clients Of A to Z Organizing Pros® May Promote Business For F R E E
No stress, worries, anxiety, doubt or fear...and greater peace of mind™

In this Issue:


Check out our Blog at http://atozorganizingpros.blogspot.com/
Tips:
Tips for After Christmas, Decoration Storage

Learn Techniques To Double Your Income In 2007

Success Quote:
Life is change.

Special Promotions

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

B2B Article 2:
Discover Why Goal Setters Succeed

Business Owners & Self Employed- Deductions You Should Be Taking

Companies lose as much as $3,000 a year per employee

Improve Productivity In Less Than An Hour

What's New:
Links to Resources
New organizing team members

Testimonials:
what a nice light feeling

Featured Business

Holidays and Important Dates

Sponsors

Joke of the month:

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

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Holidays and Important Dates December 2006
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Tips for After Winter Holidays Decoration Storage

1. Start sorting. If you don't like it, throw it out or give it away.
2. Gather appropriate boxes, bags and containers to store decorations.
3. Label boxes/containers on all four sides. If you have several boxes of decorations, categorize by room or in the order to open them.
4. Store like with like. “Anything with a cord or on a string should be wrapped around a piece of cardboard and stored in the same box, store spare bulbs in the same container. Store wrapping paper removed from the cardboard tube and folded flat. “Creases won’t hurt the paper. Place ribbons, labels and fancy tags in food storage bags. Fill bags of bows with air to help bows keep their shape. Pack and stack special holiday dishes in zipper bags, sometimes called China Savers. Place suction cups and hooks in the same box as lights or ornaments. Wrap delicate ornaments in paper towels or tissue paper to provide extra cushioning and protection. Artificial wreaths often come in a box that's ideal for storage. Other options include Rubbermaid's flexible Wreath Storage Bag, with handles to hang in a garage or closet, or a flat under-the-bed storage box. Garbage bags are handy, but do little to protect the shape or decorations on the wreath.
Follow these steps and unpacking next winter should be a breeze.  For additional Tips & Ideas simply visit
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Learn Techniques To Double Your Income In 2007
There are 3 keys to getting and staying organized......

1. Prioritization
2. Discipline
3. Consistency

Let us help you determine the changes you need to make to improve your bottom line and enable you to double your income in 2007 by improving your productivity, effectiveness and efficiency.

We offer you an evaluation that is intended to provide insight into the productivity, effectiveness and efficiency of your daily activities and by providing you with the basis for proactive change and how to set up appropriate systems and processes that really work for you. The activities in the evaluation may be done slightly differently for different types of people and businesses. 

We offer you our Ironclad Guarantee that when you implement all our recommendations you will either double your income or see ten times your return on investment in the first year or we’ll refund your evaluation costs.

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Success Quote
"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. " Karen Kaiser Clark

Referral Program
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We help clients create solutions
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Most of our clients double their income in the first year using the techniques we provide in our first session.

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Testimonials
"Valerie really helped A LOT with our organizing session for my home office. It's the first day in ages I didn't feel overwhelmed, what a nice light feeling. Thanks again". Alice Saland - Personal Fitness Trainer - Phoenix, Arizona

We have worked together with Danielle weekly for almost six years. She is reliable, dependable and a really hard worker. She has organized every thing in my home from outside tool sheds to underwear drawers and in every aspect she is a professional. I trust her with everything in my home and she is often there alone. Danielle's passion for her art is clear at every session, she truly loves what she does. My husband and I often joke that she is better than a marriage counselor, she has helped us resolve issues in the day to day running of our home and as a result our lives run  much more smoothly!" John & Nina Mailey - Layafette Hill, PA

 

B2B Article
Get the Cow off Your Desk And the Monkey off Your Back- Part five of eight
It’s all about paper flow and time management

Organize your file drawers

This is an ideal time to use boxed-bottomed hanging files when you have the ability to hang them.  This allows for easier movement in the file drawers, and keeps anything from becoming so bulky you can’t open the folder (or put something into it) without removing the entire file.  There is a list at the end of my chapter for the kind of hanging files I recommend (several brands I absolutely do not recommend, because they’re just not sturdy enough to endure).

Think about the best way to present your files to your (or someone else’s) eye.  Alphabetically?  By area or topic?  Chronologically?  A combination? 

As you rearrange the files, make sure each folder contains information you currently use or need.  If not, remove it from the active drawer and put it in an archives drawer or just discard it.  Make new folders as you identify a need for them.  When a folder gets particularly large, just use the crease marks near the fold to create a boxed bottom folder or split the file and have two, making sure that they are both appropriately labeled. I also recommend that you only allow a file to get to be 1-1/2 inches thick and no more.

Sort the banker box piles into the file drawers

Now that you have your files Shuffled, Hanging, Removed, Organized and Fixed, it’s time to take your papers and piles and put them in the proper locations.  You’ll have them off your desk once and for all, and your Cow will be gone!

continued next month....look for part six.  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
Discover Why Goal Setters Succeed
And How You Can Too

by Joe Rispoli

Why do some people work so hard and yet never find success? Why do some people achieve everything and yet seem to hardly work at all?

Everyone has heard the news. Goal-setters succeed! Listen to any successful entrepreneur or professional and they all seem to talk about dreams and goals. Not the ones they think about occasionally or just hope for. But these are goals and dreams that have moved them to action and created passion in their lives. Yes, goals can create miracles and accomplishment.

Success is available to everyone. People who have established long-term goals and have worked hard to accomplish them have decided in their minds what they can do in their lives.

So, what is the secret to setting goals? The mind. Everything you want to happen can, if you just put your mind to it.

Is success a dream that lasts for a few hours, and then, puff, it's gone? No. Set it in your mind that you will accomplish a specific task and then think about it day and night until you find the means to make it real. We become what we think.

The world is constantly changing around us, accepting change and adapting to it can help us strive for success. You can control your mind but not the world around you. Although we do have some control over how change occurs in our lives through the decisions we make, what about the economy, natural disasters, and death? What we can do is take control by adapting to change, and moving forward.

The path to success is not without difficulties. Do not get discouraged and then not take action. People like to discourage others from taking chances, and most of them are probably not successful. Listen to others, but decide for yourself what action to take. Remember that success is accomplished by setting goals and then taking action. Anyone can do nothing, but those who are successful have taken action.

The person who thinks about nothing, becomes nothing.

What do most successful people have? A mentor. Why? A mentor can challenge you while providing the support you need. They can help you determine where you are and where you want to go.

What should a mentor provide?

They should:

1. Help with decisions by providing a different viewpoint.

2. Provide support and accountability.

3. Minimize your effort by offering advice on how to reach your goals.

4. Provide a means for you to express your concerns and ideas while helping to provide solutions that are not so obvious.

How can you begin?

1. Understand fully that we become what we think. We must take control of our thoughts if we want to take control of our lives. This is critical.

2. We need to understand that any limitations that we have are self-imposed and that the opportunities that are available today are available to everyone.

3. Think positively when dealing with problems.

4. Set clearly defined goals. Let your mind dwell on your goals from different angles and it will come up with many possible solutions.

5. We must act decisively when required and when our course is clear. What good are our ideas if we do not act on them?

6. Believe in yourself. Understand that there is nothing to stop you from accomplishing your purpose. Persistence is required for success to be acquired.

Three Barriers to Success

1. Fear. What fear is keeping you from achieving your dreams? Is it a fear of failure? Fear of success? Whenever this fear begins to appear just ask yourself: what's the worst thing that could happen? Then move forward in confidence knowing that whatever does happen will far outweigh the failure of doing nothing.

2. Not Knowing. Some people use the lack of knowledge as an excuse for not setting goals and becoming successful. Just because you may not know all the details, is no reason to not pursue your dreams. Everyone can make a difference by venturing into the unknown. Set a goal to gain the knowledge that you need to move forward and take control of your life and find success.

3. Negative People. Avoid them! You should associate with others who will encourage you and gets excited with you as you strive to achieve your goals and desires. Do you spend more time with goal makers or goal breakers?

Success will take courage and perseverance. Many people start but only successful people finish.

One of the most important decisions you will ever make is to determine what you want. Decide now. Have a goal in mind. Work continuously toward your goal and it will one day become reality.

But here's the catch--You can't give up!

Copyright 2006 by Joe Rispoli  About The Author: Joe Rispoli has been involved in Network marketing for over 10 years. He believes in the power of goal setting. It provides focus. It shapes our dreams. Visit his website at:
http://ucanto.com/success-university.html

Business Owners & Self Employed- Deductions You Should Be Taking
Meals out
Theater tickets
Sporting event tickets
Home entertainment (entertaining friends, relative, etc...)
Travel & vacation expenses, ( food, clothes, dry cleaning, fingernails, hair cuts, the cost of your entire
vacation, etc..)
100% of ALL medical, dental, vision, mental health, chiropractic, expenses, etc...
ALL expenses for children, (lessons, presents, clothes, college, weddings etc...)
100% of business use of ALL your vehicles
Mortgage interest, real estate taxes, utilities, insurance, repairs, furniture, etc..
100% of any exercise or personal gym equipment
100% of your cell phone
100% of the cost of a second phone line
Depreciation of your vehicles
Depreciation of computers, printers, scanners etc.
Loss when you sell a vehicle
Any purchases you make for your work, or related to your work
Certain items of clothing for work
DO YOU KNOW :
How to easily audit proof your records?
That you may be keeping too many receipts, or the wrong ones?
How to legally, ethically and morally write off almost your entire life's expenses thanks to the IRS and
Congress?
That you are over paying your taxes by THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS each year?
That you can start TODAY keeping HUNDREDS of your hard earned dollars which will equal
THOUSANDS of dollars in a year?
That Americans are over paying their taxes by 140 billion dollars each year?
That all of this information is easily obtained and easy to understand?
How to turn taxable expenses into nontaxable expenses?
That you can have protection against an audit and the IRS?
If you are not taking these deductions then you are needlessly giving
away your hard earned money!

 

Companies lose as much as $3,000 a year per employee

Valerie J. Simpson, president of A to Z Organizing Pros®, a Phoenix-based organization consulting company says that disorganization, clutter and inefficiency can cost companies as much as $3,000 a year per employee.

“People should make lists and prioritize them so they can make the most of the time they have. We have a tendency as human beings to do the things that are easiest. It’s more efficient to do the most urgent ones first. The people who are disciplined to make those lists themselves and prioritize them, based on feedback from others, can avoid resentment for those tasks and increase their motivation.”

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What's New at A to Z Organizing Pros®
One New Nationwide Organizing Team Member Joined Us In October
* * Alison B. 11/06 -  Charlotte, NC
Residential organizing: Attics, Basements, Garages, Bedrooms, Moving, Relocation, Home Inventory for Insurance, Closets, Kid's Room, Living rm Family rm, Paper Filing, Feng Shui Time Management Coaching, Personal Coach. Business organizing: Moving, Relocation, International Travel, Paper Filing Systems, Inventory, Feng Shui, Office-Commercial, Home Office, Business/Personal Coach, Time Management, Public Speaking, Meeting Planning

Professional Organizer since 1997
Affiliations: NAPO
"Alison knew what needed to be done to get my mess organized when I did NOT, told me what it would take, what it would cost, brought the supplies, and came within or under her estimates daily!"
Organizing in: Charlotte, NC - Lake Norman, NC - Gastonia, NC - Ashville, NC - Greensboro, NC - High Point, NC - Winston Salem, NC - Hickory, NC - Kannapolis, NC - Concord, NC - Burlington, NC - Spartanburg, SC - Columbia, SC

Our New Affiliates
Sausalito, California (Metro Area - San Francisco, CA)
Residential organizing: Consultant & coach specializing in information management including: paper flow, filing systems, priorities & time management. Other residential services: moving/relocations and Home Haven consults. Business organizing: Consultant & Coach specializing in information management including: paper flow, filing systems, priorities & time management. We also offer public workshops & corporate seminars.
Affiliations: Past Chapter President, NAPO (National Association of Professional Organizers) Graduate of the Coaches Training Institute leadership Board Member, Marin Coaches Alliance Competent Toastmaster (CTM) Bachelor of Arts, UCLA, Deans Honors Around-the-World Traveler
Professional Organizer since 1991
Organizing in:
Atherton, CA - Belmont, CA - Belvedere, CA - Bodega, CA - Bodega Bay, CA - Bolinas, CA - Brisbane, CA - Burlingame, CA - Camp Meeker, CA - Cazadero, CA - Cloverdale, CA - Colma, CA - Corte Madera, CA - Cotati, CA - Daly City, CA - Dillon Beach, CA - Duncans Mills, CA - East Palo Alto, CA - Forest Knolls, CA - Forestville, CA - Foster City, CA - Freestone, CA - Fulton, CA - Geyserville, CA - Glen Ellen, CA - Greenbrae, CA - Fairfax, CA - Graton, CA - Guerneville, CA - Half Moon Bay, CA - Healdsburg, CA - Hillsborough, CA - Ignacio, CA - Inverness, CA - Kentfield, CA - Kenwood, CA - Lagunitas, CA - La Honda, CA - Larkspur, CA - Menlo Park, CA - Mill Valley, CA - Millbrae, CA - Monte Rio, CA - Moss Beach, CA - Muir Beach, CA - Nicasio, CA - Novato, CA - Occidental, CA - Pacifica, CA - Penngrove, CA - Petaluma, CA - Point Reyes Station, CA - Portola Valley, CA - Redwood City, CA - Rohnert Park, CA - Ross, CA - San Anselmo, CA - San Bruno, CA - San Carlos, CA - San Francisco, CA - San Geronimo, CA - San Mateo, CA - San Quentin, CA - San Rafael, CA - Santa Rosa, CA - Sausalito, CA - Sebastopol, CA - Sonoma, CA - South San Francisco, CA - Stinson Beach, CA - Terra Linda, CA - Tiburon, CA - Tomales, CA - West Menlo Park, CA - Windsor, CA - Woodacre, CA - Woodside, CA

Links to Resources and Additional Event Listings
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Your feedback about these resources and the usefulness of this page is appreciated.
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Featured Business for December 2006
Your business may be featured in an upcoming Organizing You News newsletter. Our newsletter goes out to more than 2,400 email subscribers.

Your business feature will be a permanent posting in the newsletter archives and you will also be the featured link on the links page of our website for the month. There is no charge for this, we just appreciate your business and would like to help promote you. We reserve the right to edit and publish at our discretion. Please send us a blurb about your business so that we may publish your information in the next few months.

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Business Name - A to Z Organizing Pros®
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Business Description - We are improving productivity and efficiency for disorganized, packrat individuals as well as small and home-based businesses Nationwide. [locally serving Apache Junction, Avondale, Buckeye, Carefree, Casa Grande, Cave Creek, Chandler, El Mirage, Fountain Hills, Gila Bend, Gilbert, Glendale, Goodyear, Guadalupe, Litchfield Park, Mesa, Paradise Valley, Peoria, Phoenix, Queen Creek, Scottsdale, Sun City, Surprise, Tempe, Tolleson, Wickenburg and Youngtown, Arizona]! ...Let us help you organize your office, home, time. Let's make everything organized and clutter free. Our professional organizers assist clients in Scottsdale, Phoenix and nationwide. Our local professional organizer Valerie J. Simpson helps clients to be clutter free. She and other organizers assist individuals and professionals in offices and  businesses to organize piles and files. We also work with residential clients to organize closets, garages, kitchen, storage and much more...

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