====== Organize Your Office, Cut the FAT ======

I'm not sure where I first heard about this idea; from a book, perhaps.  The idea is simple but has been effective at helping me clear my work space of all the clutter.  

FAT stands for //File//, //Act//, or //Trash//.  With each item on your desk, each folder, each piece of paper, you need only consider which of three things you will do with it.  Either you //file// the item, you //act// on it, or you throw it in the //trash//.

For me, filing an item means putting it in a filing cabinet, locking it in a safe, or writing about it on this site and then tossing the original page.

Using this simple idea I can generally put everything on my desk into 3 piles that I can deal with quickly and easily.