It's important to have the right tools and the right skills. It's just too damn hard to do a job right when you're not properly equipped. Allison Van Norman runs Organizing Solutions, a San Francisco Bay area business devoted to teaching people how to get organized. Place all the folders you access on a regular basis on the desktop, and make shortcuts to the programs you use often. This means that you'll have sharp knives in the kitchen, a working stapler in the office and that you'll finally learn how to use the electric drill in the garage.
Simplicity is part of the solution.
Organization and simplicity share a piece of the same spectrum. Simplifying our lives is the notion that it makes sense for us to pare down the activities and stuff that we cram into our lives, and focus instead on just those parts of life that truly matter to us, whether that means our kids, our partners, a wonderful career, volunteer work in Kenya or a hobby making model airplanes. Organization is good for the environment. For many of the same reasons that organization is frugal, it's environmentally-friendly, too. The ActivePro Editorial team would like to thank you for reading this issue of ActivePro.