Small Business Today Magazine JUL 2014 PHENOMENAL PRODUCTS | Page 26

EDITORIALFEATURE

Getting Organized: 

Use the 6 Cs to Organize Your Office
By Holly Uverity, CPO®, Office Organizers

I

believe that anyone who truly wants
to get his or her office organized can. 
It’s much more than just tossing things
out and making new folders; it requires
time, energy, and commitment to change –
or what I call the 6 Cs. 

 Consciousness

 We are all familiar with the quote, “The
definition of insanity is doing the same
thing over and over again and expecting
different results.”  When it comes to organizing, people often believe that this is the
time that they are going to get and stay organized; this is the time that it will work.  Yet
they’re not really aware of what’s going on. 
They don’t understand that getting organized, like any other behavior change you
want to make, begins with being conscious.

Being conscious means that you are
aware of what is actually going on with
you and your office.  For most people, that
means stopping and taking an inventor B