Don’t be afraid to give a new organizing system a whirl.  Use it, give it some time, give it a fair shake and see how it goes.  For example, you may try out a file box like this:

But you may find that you don’t like opening the folder and dropping papers in.  Perhaps you feel like you can’t “See” your papers so you don’t use it.  No problem!  Then try something like this instead:

The key here, very important, is that you use each tray for one type of paper and you label the tray.  Examples:  To Do, To Read, Bills to Pay, etc.  This may be enough to make you feel like your papers are visible.  You don’t know until you experiment a bit.

In my own office I was using a step sorter for my business files:

But eventually it stopped working for me because the folders were getting too heavy and falling forward.  So now I use a file box-easy enough to change!

Changing organizing systems isn’t a failure, some things work, some things don’t and you just have to play around with what works for YOU!

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