Organization facts to consider
Top 10 Facts
1. For every minute you spend organizing, you save six minutes later on.
2. The average American will spend one year searching through desk clutter looking for misplaced objects. The Wall Street Journal reports that the average U.S. executive wastes six weeks per year searching for missing information in messy desks and files.
2. Organized people earn more and are more likely to be promoted on the job.
3. The two most often quoted New Year's resolutions are: "I've gotta lose weight," and "I've gotta get organized."
4. Children of organized parents perform better in school than others with the same IQ. These children will earn more as adults.
5. You get back two to four minutes of execution time for every minute you spend planning.
6. Research shows that 80% of what paper we keep we don't use. The more we keep, the less we use, because we're not organized enough to find it.
7. Most people underestimate by a factor of two to four how much time a given activity will require.
8. Most wasted time results from becoming sidetracked: saying yes to activities that seem urgent but don’t really contribute to our personal mission.
9. Between 2000-2003 it is estimated that more information will be created than in the last 300,000 years! The US Postal Service attests to the fact that contemporary Americans get more mail in one month than their parents did in an entire year, and more mail in one year than their grandparents received in a lifetime!
10. There has been an economic boom in consumerism in the last 30 years. In 1970, the average house was 900 square feet without a garage and 5.5 people living there. Today, the average house is 2400 square feet with a 2-3 car garage, and 2.2 people living there. |
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