Uncluttering your life If you are like most busy working mothers, you've made the promise to yourself to stop long enough one day to get just a little more organized. The rewards of such a task will be felt for weeks on end. But where do you start when so many areas of your daily life could use a little spring cleaning? We've put together a list to help you move the needle closer to true organization. At Work Always keep your calendar or PDA close by. Write down reminders as soon as you think of them. In the office, never touch a piece of a paper more than once before taking action. This will keep you from rereading the same information more than once and you'll avoid making piles of uncompleted work. Open the letter, file it in a "review" folder and the next time you read it, require yourself to act on it. Use color post ems' as tabs to highlight projects with similar tasks associated with them. For instance, any proposal that needs a return letter might be tagged with yellow with a file name for the necessary letter that must be attached. Throw out boxes of old software and supplies that have expired warranties. Create project notebooks complete with dividers for each stage or subject matter of the project. Copies of magazine articles and websites can easily be three hole punched and added to the notebook at any time. At Home When replacing clothes in your closet, throw out the item you are replacing when you hang up the new version. Purge that pile of magazines you haven't gotten around to reading yet. Our suggestion is to tear out the articles you are interested in reading. There's no sense in keeping an entire magazine. Keep a folder of these articles under the seat of your car to pull out when going into a doctor's office or waiting for your child to finish soccer practice. Mark the due date of bills in pencil in the bottom outside corner of the envelope. You'll avoid shifting through invoices looking for dates later. Throw out all junk mail as soon as you pick up the mail. Don't waste your time saving the junk for later.