Anyone who tells you that working from home is easy obviously does not do so themselves. Amid all the emailing, the phone calls, and the all-important marketing organization can got lost along the way and one morning you find yourself walking into your home office and thinking “What am I going to do about all this mess?”

Some people are born organizers, with a file folder for every need, a stack of pristine white notepaper at their side and a fully stocked and sorted office supplies drawer full of sharpened pencils and extra printer ink refills. Then there are the rest of us. But who has the time to clean when there are so many other things to be accomplished and not enough hours in the day as it is?

If the thought of trying to organize the controlled chaos in your home office over the weekend, your only time to break away from the place, depresses you then don’t. Take 15 minutes every day instead to tackle one area at a time. Begin with one stack of papers, one printer that has needed a new cartridge for days, one box of jumbled pens and pencils. Once you have achieved one task go back to work.

If you did that each and every day within a month you would have spent a day cleaning up your office without even noticing it. Then once it is organized you will probably need to only spend five minutes a day keeping it that way.

Some other sites to check out:

http://lifeorganizers.com/office

http://home.ivillage.com/homeoffice/homeoff/0,,7b1w,00.html

http://www.monkeysee.com/play/8052-how-to-organize-your-home-office