QUICK TIP: CREATE A TICKLER FILE

Create a tickler file system for organizing paperwork with due dates such as bills or greeting cards to send. Your tickler file can be 31 letter-size file folders (one for each day of the month) placed in a few hanging folders in your front desk drawer. Put your paperwork and notes under the date that they need to be handled (not their due dates). Then check your file daily to complete that day's tasks. Also put 12 letter-size folders (one for each month) behind the 31 day files. Add items as needed to the monthly folders. At the end of the current month move the items from the next month's folder to the individual 31-day folders.