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How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
Designate one place for incoming papers. Make a shadow box even if it's out of duct tape. Write "IN" on it.
The best piece of paper is the one that never makes it to the INBOX.
Work on one pile at a time. Finish the pile you start before moving on the next one. Stick to the ten minutes. And do it every single night for a 30 day habit.
Advanced cleaning would have a chart with a track of days. Count the piles and estimate weeks to complete and plot it.
Measure your progress. Am I getting healthier?
First you need to choose a specific day of the week and set a specific time and duration of it for brief reading your papers to know the subject of each paper (for example: choose next monday at 2:30pm for 2 hours).
This will help you to devide your papers depending on their titles or topics… (for example: section 1 = file papers, section 2 = planning papers, section 3 = task papers, sub sections in section 3 = task1 + task2 + task3 and so on, section 4 = achived tasks, section 5 = references or directions… and so on).
in that day you chose, just go ahead and start doing this task till you reach to the end of the duration you set! then enjoy the rest of the day …
But if you still couldn't finish dividing and organizing the rest of papers, and you feel worried that still too many papers left and the deadline is close, then choose another time and duration of the next day and so on! …. i think, maybe you will need only one week for this task.. then you start scheduling to work on tasks if those papers include some task or commitment for you to do .. you will be able to achieve them faster because you already organized them! .. you will be more focused and excited to finish them..
Also, you can overlap dividing and scheduling and applying.. (for example: dividing papers will go on monday at 3:30pm for 2hrs, then read task1 papers in detail then work on task1 will go on the same day Monday at 6:00pm for 1 hr and 30 minutes. after that, go to schedule time for dividing and applying for the next day or after 2 days.. and so on…)
After you succeed in getting a ride from these pile of papers in your desk, keep remembering how you suffered to achieve it, this will help you to never neglect filing your ppers oneby one once you receive them..
This method that i explained for you is also useful for your future …
For example 'if I clean my papers up I will treat myself to a day out'.and some advice for cleaning make 2 piles
1.important things I need to keep
2.throw it away
Second : work on the most important ones first
Third : understand how you ended up with a pile of papers and fix that.
Hope this was helpful
2. Seperate the papers by category.
3. Go through each category and decide whether each paper is absolutely necessary, might be nice to keep, or not worth having around anymore. Make 3 piles.
4. Place the papers you want to keep in folders based on category, with the absolutely necessary ones first. Place the folders in the organizer.
5. Throw away the useless papers.