by Barbara Hemphill

Information is power, if you can find it when you need it. Research shows the average person spends 150 hours per year – almost one month – looking for misplaced information.

Are you knee-deep in paper? Are you wasting time searching for information? What if you have an IRS audit – . . . → Read More: Creating a Filing System that Works

One advantage of gathering together similar actions by category is that you can increase your productivity. For instance, if you’re making one phone call, you can probably make another one in just a few more minutes if you don’t have to spend time looking for the paper you need to make the additional . . . → Read More: Setting Up Your “Action Files”