April 19, 2006.
My 3 1/2 year old loves to draw my pictures on sticky notes. She writes her name, she asks how to spell things, she draws faces, animals...quite the artist (um, I should know). In fact, she has been know to leave them all over the house, and for two weeks on every door in the house. The poor friend got quite a lecture when she tried to remove them from their designated spots. She also leaves them around my office, on my computer, in my pocket - little pictures and what she calls 'notes'.
I thought about these notes as I was reading, Fortune Small Business Magazine, http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb// ( I am a bit behind on my reading). Anyhoo....The Small Biz Makeover section mentions Fox Relocation Management use of sticky notes...the phone had been covered by sticky notes on which an RFM employee had scribbled data, prices, contacts. etc. She goes on to say that all their intellectual property was lost. Um....that would be MY desk.
The ah-ha moment struck me a little too early this morning....gave me a headache in fact. I have a pile (yes a pile enough to make a new pad of sticky notes) on my desk. I have contacts, new stores, new ideas, processes, phone numbers, clients, customers, press contacts, did I mention phone numbers? So my first instinct was to run over to the office (in my pajamas of course) and put the information into a document...............ah but what document? And who else should have access to that information?
All of that information is so important to my business, I need to get it into the correct documents. When my life is crazy or out of control, I find that getting my work, or desk or paperwork organized and in the correct place helps me out. I am thinking of giving my daughter all the sticky notes so I am not tempted to use them.
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