Paper Trail
Posted by dminor Wed, 27 Aug 2003 06:56:00 GMT
Sometime last year, I read an article on being effective and efficient. One of the suggestions was to adhere to a “one touch” system. Pick up a piece of paper or mail or whatever, look at it, then make a decision to trash it or file it. Finally, act on that decision. Basically, you never touch a piece of paper twice.
I have tried hard to follow this rule, and for the most part I succeed. Just now, I was glancing around my office seeing things that have been sitting there for weeks or months. I haven’t yet figured out what I am going to do with them. Then it occurred to me … the reason that they are still sitting there after all this time is that as long as I don’t touch them, I don’t have to do anything to them!
It’s so easy that way!
