Okay, in this real example, we're going to dive into a home office. So like myself, and like many entrepreneurs out there, you have a space in the home that you dedicate to being an office. Here in this photograph, you can see very quickly that there are quite a few items in this home office. So as you know, it can be very frustrating to use a space and not have a clear space to work. Our clients specifically had goals of wanting to have a clear desk, they wanted to create a paper system that worked for them, they were forced into the situation, unfortunately, by something in a life event that had occurred, and they wanted to get rid of all the crap they called it. So that would be the things that just no longer applied, but maybe at one time served a purpose.

They wanted to feel common control in the space and they also wanted to be able to be ready for taxes. So if you've heard from some of the other examples, you can see that tax time and paperwork, it can be something that adds a lot to stress to your life. So if you can invest some time upfront, you're really going to benefit over your lifetime of not having to worry about where are those papers when I need them, so that I make sure the government knows how much I owe them or how much the government owes me. The why of why the client had called us was because they simply couldn't handle it anymore. So if you're like me, you've reached a point in time where you've just had enough, you've tried your best and you couldn't get any further, our client was in the same position.

They couldn't live in that disorganization anymore, and they wanted to make a change. And that's all you need to be able to do to make changes like that. You just internally need to feel it. I know, sometimes we want to help people. But if they don't want to help themselves, we're not going to be able to push through and make a real successful project. So using our system, you can see the after image and it's pretty dramatic.

Where did we start? We use that wave system where we picked a spot in the room and we simply touched every single thing until we had gone 365 degrees 360 degrees all the way around. And at the end, we had placed everything where they had a home. So you can look in the desk, you can see that things are set up, you've got nice photographs up at the top, that's the personalization, the beautification, but then beside the computer, all the devices are hooked up and connected. You've got a pad of paper and envelopes with stamps. And then you've got a filing cabinet on the right hand side where she's starting to build her new system for paperwork.

So everything's very accessible from that space, you've got a clear floor space, and it's a nice inviting space to bring in some paperwork, if you've got to do some work on the desk. We also did some things that were on the to do list for our clients. So they had a bulletin board that they wanted hung up and it kind of had been shoved back behind in a closet. We got that up on the wall so that they could put up their important paperwork. So things that they didn't want to forget or things that they needed to have handy and be able to visually see all the time. We also had some Some incoming mail slots.

So we hung those up on, she was going to determine what kind of categories would fit for that and then label them. But it was always a frustration that they had a very long lane way the mail was delivered, no matter who was at the end of the laneway, that's who would pick up the mail. So it wasn't always something that was delivered nicely, as opposed to just tossed into into the office. So now there's an actual place for new mail to be put. And that's going to make a big difference with the incoming paperwork that's coming into the office. So when you're doing these types of projects, you need to remember once you've finished your projects, what are the moving parts of that project afterwards.

So in this case, the paperwork, how to manage it incoming and outgoing. So this client was very happy with the end result and of course we were to going through paper though, is a big time consuming thing. So like we said before, always make sure you start with the physical space and kind of leave that paperwork till the end, because then at least you've got a nice calm, inviting space and a clear space, even the floor to be able to sort paperwork and be able to move forward with that that last goal of setting up a paper system.