Wherever I go, there I work (and play)

In an effort to make this site as honest and transparent as it can possibly be, I’m going to ask for your help.  I have a home office. I have a desk. I have a filing cabinet. Yet look at all this stuff:

Help me.

I would love to hear what type of system you use to not only file paper documents, but what you do with your data backups on CD/DVD, post-it notes, books, pens & pencils, checkbooks, etc.  What organization plan is the quickest to learn and implement? I don’t have a week to devote solely to organizing. I need to be able to pick it up on the fly.

What system has worked best for you? Please share some insight.

I’m going to try something new and I think it would be great to detail my progress here on AnywhereMan. Hey, it could be fun. The funny thing is, my digital workspace (email, digital files, etc) is way more organized than my physical workspace.

Seriously…help.

Thanks everyone!

One of the things I really want to accomplish with AnywhereMan is to really create a sub-community within the growing freelance and telework communities.  As part of this smaller group, we can hold open discussions regarding topics relevant to us, ask for and offer advice to fellow community members, and really just encourage each other through our interactions both on this blog itself and outside its “walls.” (i.e. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc)

So at this point, as I sit here in my [plastic] adirondack chair watching the sunset from my backyard (as an Anywhere should), I ask you: What topics would you like to see covered on AnywhereMan?  Things like daily scheduling, productivity, hardware, software, home office, mobile technologies, work/life balance, lifestyle design, getting in to a telework positiong, making the leap to freelance work…OR ANYTHING! And really, I will not claim to have all the answers. I see my role on AnywhereMan as a facilitator bringing methods, ideas, and questions of his own to the table. 

I’ve got plenty of topics lined up but I want to make sure that we as a growing community are having an active discussion relevant to the readers.  To me, the best part of social media is the new definition of WWW: World Wide Watercooler. 

The AnywhereMan watercooler is now open.

What would you like to discuss here pertaining to the freelance and telework lifestyle? Submit any and all ideas!

Even pajama recommendation requests will do!