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A vision of the ideal workplace.

Every entrepreneur has a vision of the ideal workplace. This environment allows them to:

• be highly productive
• have everything organized
• focus on just the most important opportunities
• have everything at their fingertips
• have everything in a great system

That’s the vision. But for a great many entrepreneurs, their actual work environment doesn’t support any of this.

A roomful of things in your way.

One of the biggest things that undermines their productivity is an office that’s wall-to-wall files, notes, memos, reports, journals, magazines, books, brochures, junk mail, and reminders. None of it is organized; all of it is an energy drain.

Think about this: You get up in the morning, knowing you have a great deal of work to do. There are crucial things to accomplish. You’re excited about the possibilities and payoffs. But when you reach your office, a good chunk of your concentration and confidence are immediately drained because of the messes that confront you.

The ideal office will probably never happen.

Instead of having an office that works for you — that supports your success — you have an office that opposes your best plans, activities, and results. And you have to go there every work day!

Entrepreneurs who are frustrated year after year by a messy office may resolve every so often to keep it clean and organized for good. But it never happens. For the majority of entrepreneurs, then, a permanently orderly and efficiently organized office is never going to happen. With the greatest motivation in the world, they’re not going to pull it off.

There’s only one solution: Get rid of your office.

How to get rid of your office.

You can achieve this in one of two ways. The first way is to not have an office at all. If you have a boardroom, use that for your work. Each day you can have everything you need brought there, but at the end of each day, you give everything back to someone who puts it where it’s supposed to be. Many of the most productive entrepreneurs in the The Strategic Coach Program™ use outside places like coffee bars, cafés, or restaurants to do their best work. They only go to the office for scheduled essential meetings and projects.

The second way is to transform your existing office into a great meeting room, with a round or oval table and a set of very comfortable conference chairs. You can have art on the walls, but get rid of everything that constitutes an “office”: desk, cabinets, files, and so on. Get rid of everything that invites “messes” and “stuff” to happen.

If you get rid of your office now, you’ll automatically have a significant jump in productivity and creativity by this time next year — just because of this one improvement.