Have you got piles and piles of unopened mail, dating back weeks, months, even years?
Is it mixed in with letters your kids have brought home from school, magazines you
haven't got around to reading, photographs you don't want to lose, and
who knows what else? I'm Rachel Papworth, from Green and Tidy. I'm the online
Professional Organizer and, if there's one thing my thousands of clients ask
for help with more than any other, it's paperwork! And I'll let you into a secret.
Paperwork is one of my favorite things to declutter and organize. Yes, really! And
I love decluttering and organizing in general! So I'm really excited to give
you a special YouTube discount of 25% off
Declutter Paper and Paperwork, my new video course, using the address on the screen, which is
also in the information below as a clickable link. Plus sneaky free access
to one of the lectures from the course: the one that explains WHY you end up
with so much paper clutter, and why you MUST declutter and organize it.
Watch it now!
There's something about paper, isn't there? It just seems to get out of control
so easily. And paperwork can end up being the most scary type of clutter to
clear. But it doesn't have to be this way. I promise you that, by the end of this
course, you will have all you need to process your paperwork easily and
efficiently as it comes in, so that you never build up a backlog again. Before you
can get there though, you need to understand WHY paperwork can be such a monster.
Despite all the promises of the technological revolution about us moving
to a paperless society, there still seems to be an awful lot of paper about, doesn't there?
There's no getting away from the fact that something in writing, whether that's
handwriting, something printed onto paper, or something held in digital format, has
more long-lasting impact than something that's only spoken. Something
on paper can be referred to repeatedly and provide evidence of something that's
been agreed. So it's essential for anything you might need to reference
more than once, something that it's important you remember, and anything that
you might need to prove in the future. It's no good someone
explaining to you once how to use all the functions on a new camera. You need a
manual so that you can look stuff up as you go along. If the school claims you
never paid the fee for your child's school trip, you need to be able to
produce the receipt to prove that you did. If you think the direct debit for your
gas bill has been set too high, you need to be able to go back over your previous
statements to look at how much gas you use. I could go on but I know you get
point. And we lead rich busy lives. We have jobs, leisure pursuits, social lives,
volunteering commitments, family commitments, homes full of furniture and
equipment to run, cars to maintain, holidays to plan, and memories to store.
And each of these generates its own, sometimes interlinked, paper trail.
Plus, often paperwork is linked to financial matters, and lots of us are scared of
numbers and particularly numbers with pound, dollar, euro, rupee, peso or
whatever signs in front of them. If you have a deep and crippling phobia of
financial matters, you're not alone. You might be a smart person in general with
a maths degree from Cambridge but, as soon as numbers get money signs in front
of them, they send you screaming into a cave.
So it's no wonder that, if you don't
keep on top of your paperwork, in no time at all, you're facing a
massive, scary, overwhelming, chaotic jumble of paper
scattered all over your home. You're horribly stressed. You can't relax
because everywhere you look there's paperwork waiting to be dealt with, and
because you can't find the papers you need to find. It's scary thinking about
what might be in there but it's not relaxing to ignore it either, and your
productivity suffers. Everything takes twice as long as it should, you miss
deadlines, you forget to do things, and your whole life gets in a mess. And it's
also no wonder that, when you DO keep on top of it, your life works so much better.
you do things on time, you never forget to pay a bill,
you remember birthdays and important anniversaries, you know where you are
with your finances, you can easily sort it out when an appliance or piece of
equipment malfunctions, you stay within the law - for example with
your car and your TV license. You become one of those ultra-reliable
people who always keeps their word. And you know what? Decluttering paper can be
fun! I know it doesn't seem that way right
now but watch the next lecture to see what I mean. So there you go. By the end
of my Declutter Paper and Paperwork course,
you'll be empowered and able to clear those mountains of paperwork that are
cluttering up your home and stressing you out. If you want to know more, there's
a link on the screen now to the introductory lecture that talks you
through the whole content of the course, or just go right ahead and click that
discount link and I'll see you in the course!