Sunday 28 February 2010

Notepad Scribbles #20100228

In keeping with my 2010 list of things to do, I have worked on number (6) - Being more organised. In this category, I have included facets such as being more neat and tidy. Well, thanks to Chinese New Year, I have given my room a rather thorough clean and discarded large quantities of random bits of paper which had accumulated into a rather large mountain on my desk. This included envelopes from opened letters, marketing letters etc which introduced a dizzying array of clutter around the place. The results have been rather good - and as some would say, it is far easier to maintain than have to keep cleaning up from scratch.

In my clean up efforts, I have also made sure that my paperwork is more up to date - that means filed in a much more efficient manner than my previous method of just building huge stacks of paper which were categorised as "must keep", "need to look through" which was far superior to my previous stacking process whcih was based around years. Strangely, I knew exactly which stack a piece of paper was in - as though the chaos was my memory map.
My current but still rather rudiementary filing system should be enough to see me through to tax time (hopefully!). At lease I find it more efficient!

Also managed to give my car a bit of a clean - the tyres and windows were pretty dirty! At least a silver car doesn't really look that dirty. However, it rained today, so my car got a second rinse for good measure.

Unfortunately, my 2010 list has not seen much improvement in terms of items (1) through (5), so hopefully, I can get back into it after a rather hectic February of catching up with good friends and a busy work schedule!

3 comments:

cosine said...

maintain, maintain, maintain! :)

Wayno said...

Consider getting a scanner mate... then no need to keep the piles of paper and just store them in an external hard drive

sime said...

mindy - I know, I know, I know...

Wayno - Worth thinking about - so long as I don't need originals anymore. I could use an index/search engine on it at as well...