Before

After – Laura Ray Organizing

The Situation: This catering company grew fast, adding equipment and decor, but ran out of proper storage. Equipment was difficult to locate, because like items were stored in multiple locations. The layout slowed the staff down.

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1. Purged outdated and less used items.
2. Grouped like items.
3. Created zones for different types of equipment and put the most used within arm’s reach.

Before – Laura Ray Organizing

After – Laura Ray Organizing

Client:  Saleswoman for a service company in Georgia.

Here’s the situation: Like many people, the client had converted a room of her home into an office. In this case, it was the dining room, which had no storage. Then, the client’s aging mother needed to move in for a few months and the only place to put a bed on the first floor was the home office. 

Solving the problem:

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• We purged a lot. There were outdated sales and seminar materials. There were products from a former business, and household items that just landed in the space. She needed to make decisions about what items to purge.

Laura Ray with Karen Graham on Fox 5’s Good Day Atlanta

Clear the clutter! Did you know clutter is just postponed decisions? If you have a space full of decisions and need help, don’t miss this video clip below. Of course, you can contact me for help, too!

My 4-minute interview with Karen Graham on how to start Clearing the clutter in your home ran live on Fox 5’s Good Day Atlanta in 2016.

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Here’s the situation:  Residential files were created over several years, resulting in random colors and tabs, jumbled order and overstuffed folders. The client procrastinated with filing because it was cumbersome to find and file documents.

Client:  Business executive

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1. Weeded out old files.
2. Separated too full files into multiple folders.
3. Bought hanging folders in client’s favorite color and eliminated the use of all internal file folders.
4. Created new tabs and lined up on the left side to make it easier on the eye.

You’re about to start a big project, but first you want to give e-mail a quick check. One hour later, you close e-mail and wonder where the time went. Your whole schedule’s thrown off. You vow to not let that happen again.

Usually the problem is your e-mail in-box. You want to get it under control, with a few minutes answering e-mail here, and a few minutes sending and forwarding there. If the types of e-mails in your in-box don’t change and the way you handle them doesn’t either, then it’s likely more time will disappear from your schedule.  Read more...

If your work e-mails are piling up — or you know someone who is drowning in work e-mail — this is an open invitation to join me on Wed., October 7, when I present for ROAM Galleria’s Lunch and Learn from Noon to 1 p.m.  ROAM Galleria is a business gathering place near Galleria Mall at 285 and 75 in Atlanta.

My session, “Tame your e-mail and take back your work day,”  is a shorter, but still powerful version of the one-on-one e-mail management sessions that I offer business clients.

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Laura Ray with consumer advocate Dale Cardwell

In January 2015, I had the privilege of being interviewed by consumer advocate Dale Cardwell for his TrustDale Radio Show. We talked about organizing and productivity in the office to highlight “National Clean Off Your Desk Day!”

If you’ve never heard it, the TrustDale Radio show features advice and tips on how to find reputable contractors and avoid scams.

If you’d like to listen to it, here’s  the  link on my YouTube channel.