How do you get organized?

I have helped small businesses organize their paper filing systems so that they can get things done. Admittedly, paper is not as easy to organize as on-line documents with on-line tools, but a “tickler file” is part of a system that allows paper to be:

o Thrown away
o Referred to someone else
o Acted on
o Filed for later use

A tickler file is simply an accordion file labeled 1 through 31 and January through December so that you can act on something at a later time (and not think about it until then).