Power Tips from Anna 

Emergency Tips 

• In addition, I recommend my clients have all key information available in more than one location; saved on a couple of memory sticks , one in your safe and one with someone you trust possibly in another city. The other method would be to have it saved somewhere in the cloud so that as soon as you have technology available you will be able to access it. In addition to everything that is recommended by the American Red Cross and FEMA I recommend scanning credit cards, Social Security cards, passports, drivers licenses, the Declarations Page of your insurance policies, and health insurance cards and having these on file in the cloud and on your memory sticks.  
• Once you have all of this set up review and verify annually to make sure you are up to date.  You will save yourself a lot of difficulty later by spending some time preparing this now.
• On the American Red Cross -Prepare a Kit there are links by type of disaster, since we are vulnerable to different types of disasters.  
• Keeping your computer backed up off site is crucial for several reasons:
• external hard drives are mechanical, they DO break down
• restoring a hard drive can cost $2000
• you will never have to worry about losing your precious photos and documents (this happened to someone recently, losing all of their job photos)
• It is inexpensive 
• MOZY has a 10% off sale this month on their remote back up system, the code is SAVEME10   

  Does This Frighten You?

Also highly recommended is having some type of home inventory with the receipts for all of your major purchases scanned and uploaded to your memory stick or cloud vehicle along with a simple video. There are many ways to accomplish this so that you have everything documented in case you find your self in Oz one day. Contact us and we can help you with this.  

Fall Tip

Since everyone's gearing back up with meetings this month, I want to share this tip to save you tons of time setting up your meetings. Coordinating more than two people has become much easier since the introduction of online sites that allow people to show their availability. The meeting/event organizer will list several dates and times for a possible meeting, conference call, family get together, party, etc. and invite others to check off when they are available.

The organizer can then see which is the best day and time to hold the event based on how many people can come. No more endless emails to schedule a meeting!* 

My favorites are Doodle and Tungle Me others are: Schedule Once & TimeBridge    

 Shredding

In the fall there are always a lot of shredding and recycling events  in our local area, check the websites of your county, township, library, and banks to see what is going on in your area. 

*Tip from Sync or Swim 

Some upcoming events that I am participating in are:

Oct 18th Thinking About Downsizing? 

Oct 23rd Help, Organize Your Home With Baby!

We are currently working with a family going through a divorce. Setting up an office for Mom, and creating a landing and homework zones for the kids. After we do that we will be working throughout the house to improve storage and create an environment that will be easier to manage. The goal is to keep the disruption to a minimum during this difficult time. 

I had the pleasure of working with a family that was doing a large home renovation review their plans. We looked at the plans with a fresh set of eyes,  improved the flow, determined the best use of some of the spaces and eliminated some of the redundancy while solving certain organizational problems. Can't wait to see the pictures!