My desk is stacked high with sticky notes, business cards, cell phones and their messages, answering machines and their messages as well as a gazillion daily e-mails. How do you stay organized? I do have a few software solutions but if I were to actually use them I would spend another hour a day just inputting information...

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Michael Brown REALTOR®
REHOBOTH BEACH CONDOS & TOWNHOMES| REHOBOTH BEACH REAL ESTATE |REHOBOTH BEACH MOBILE HOMES

We just hired an assistant to help deal with some of the day-to-day stuff.


But - I must admit that I still love my post-it notes. I have them scattered all over everything.

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Kentucky Horse Farms - Louisville Kentucky Real Estate - Lexington Kentucky Real Estate
Serving the Louisville KY metropolitan area including Jefferson County - Prospect Shelby County - Shelbyville Oldham County - Goshen, La Grange and the Lexington KY metropolitan area including Fayette County - Lexington Woodford County - Versailles Scott County - Georgetown Jessamine County - Nicholasville

For random papers and such, a filing cabinet. Don't know how to help with the phone messages. For e-mails and logins and all that jazz, I use Excel a lot of the time to keep things in order. And believe me, I have a lot I need to document.

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Nicholas May
Creative Linking Team
Real Estate Webmasters

I have the same problem, my desk looks like a tornado rolled through. It's hard to stay organized in this business. I find myself writing all my "must do" actvities down.

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Dylan Darling
Search for Bend Oregon real estate and all Central Oregon homes for sale. Bend OR homes for sale.

Mike, you should just carry a tape recorder around when you need to make a note. Save the environment and desk space.

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Nicholas May
Creative Linking Team
Real Estate Webmasters

I use and like a lot of the ideas and concepts from David Allen's Getting Things Done.

Ultimately I think it's not as much the system, but the discipline to a use and stick with a system, any system. I always seem to fall back into old habits, I'm not large consumer of sticky notes, but I've got a pile of steno pads on my desk that I'm constantly flipping through trying to remeber where I wrote someting down.

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Calum MacKenzie
Tampa Florida Real Estate | New Tampa Real Estate | Wesley Chapel Real Estate

my wife helps clean my desk from time to time

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Holland Michigan Real Estate | Real Estate Holland Michigan | Holland MI Real Estate

I'm glad I'm not the only person who has a problem with this. I'm always writing on random pieces of paper etc..... Then when I need to find the information on the paper a couple of days later, the search begins

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Scottsdale Real Estate
McDowell Mountain Ranch Real Estate
Austin Cox A place for friends and family to keep up to date with my sons progress.

webify as much as you can and lose the paper when possible

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Eichler | Marin Real Estate | Marin County MLS

I try to file things as quickly as possible. If you have a good filing system, then it's easy to pull them back out. But if they sit in the desk unfiled, then it can quickly pile up out of control.

I also write and rewrite "to do" lists every couple of days. This helps keep me honest about what needs doing and what I've done, and I get to savor the moment of crossing things off the list.

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Portland Real Estate | Portland MLS | Portland General Contractor
Milan Cole, Broker
Oregon First
(503) 953-3416