About Georgina Forrest

Georgina Forrest is a Productivity Coach & Organizing Specialist at Smartworks! Enterprises Inc. in Red Deer, Alberta. Her credentials include Certified Professional Organizer (CPO®), Organizer Coach, and membership with Professional Organizers in Canada (POC) where she has attained Gold Leaf status – a designation acknowledging her as an experienced professional organizer. Her specialties are geared toward increasing productivity, streamlining administration and decreasing stress in the workplace. She will teach you how to manage your time, space and information so you can be more effective and efficient at work. Additionally she offers training programs, productivity coaching and time management-related presentations.

posted on April 21, 2021 by

Breakfast Television: Purging With Purpose

Are you hanging onto stuff because you’re not sure what to do with it? In this Breakfast Television segment, I share some places you can feel good about passing your unwanted stuff to. (Note: video is no longer available 🙁 ) Often people hang onto things because they may still have some usefulness, they’re not […]

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posted on April 21, 2021 by

Make Time For The Not-So-Critical Stuff!

Ever get tired of hearing you should focus your time and energy only on high-value tasks? You know … the important stuff. But what about the not-so-important stuff? Those tasks that keep nagging at you. When are you gonna get those done? We’d all like to work on high-value tasks and activities, but just about […]

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posted on April 8, 2021 by

Are You Feeling Insane?

Does the thought of coming into your office make you crazy? I once met a woman who told me she felt like gathering up all her papers, piles & files, books, even the computer … throwing it all out the window into one big pile … then pouring gasoline over it … (imagine this description […]

Filed Under: Balance, Calendar & Planning, Life-Work Balance, Multi-Tasking, Productivity, Quick Office Organizing Tips, Stress relief
posted on July 15, 2019 by

Time Is Money!

Let me share a story with you … A few years back, I had decided to cut down a couple of large bushes that were messy and no longer healthy. My son and I piled the branches into several piles and then called it a day. The plan for the following day was to borrow […]

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posted on July 15, 2019 by

Quit Your Addiction to Email!

Many of us send and receive hundreds of emails per day. Suffice to say, checking your inbox every time you receive a notification can become a problem. Even if you try to ignore the inbox, the incoming notifications remind you there are emails sitting there. Unread. “Who’s it from?” “What might be in it?” “Is […]

Filed Under: Email Management, Interruptions, Multi-Tasking, Prioritizing, Quick Office Organizing Tips Tagged With: , , , ,
posted on February 11, 2019 by

Let Go Of That One Thing!

You know the thing I’m talking about. Its been bugging at you for far too long now. You really feel like you “should” do it, but you just can’t seem to get yourself to make it happen. Don’t be a should-head. If it’s been there for a long time, how important is it anyway? Just […]

Filed Under: Balance, Prioritizing, Procrastination, Productivity, Quick Office Organizing Tips, Stress relief, Task & Project Management, Time Management, Uncategorized Tagged With: , , , , , , , ,
posted on January 14, 2019 by

Start Where You Are!

It’s the New Year and if you’re like a lot of people, you may have committed to finally getting that thing (you know the thing I’m talking about) started and completed. Maybe you’ve been stockpiling stuff/materials/info/ideas – whatever it is – until you’ve got … … the right time, … the right system, … the […]

Filed Under: Organize, Perfectionism, Procrastination, Simplify, Stress relief, Task & Project Management, Uncategorized Tagged With: , , , , , ,
posted on November 19, 2018 by

Delete. Purge. Recycle.

Stuff always manages to come to you. Emails pop in, the snail mail arrives, papers get dumped on your desk, the print key gets used. The trick to staying ahead of all this is to get rid of stuff as you go. Every day, make it a mission that you will delete some emails and […]

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posted on October 18, 2018 by

A Better Tomorrow Starts Today!

Instead of fumbling around in the morning trying to put out fires and figure out what’s next, hit the ground running by making your task list at the end of your workday the day before. Here are some benefits for planning the night before: You have more clarity the night before At the end of […]

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posted on September 9, 2018 by

Simplify Your Life!

One of the best things I ever did was to simplify everything that I could. ‘Simplify’ was a theme I used a few years ago as a guidepost for keeping me on track with my goals. I was so jazzed by the results that I even created an ongoing list of stuff I wanted to […]

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