Marie Kondo Your Business: Declutter Your Tech, Team, and Time

Introduction

What's going on everybody?
Welcome to another episode of:
"When you need 'em, ask Neadom"
Today, we're going to talk about how to Marie Kondo your business.

So, you may not know Marie Kondo but she's a Japanese minimalist expert and she's the star of the show Tidy Up on Netflix.
Her whole purpose is to get rid of the clutter in your life.

So, today on Ask Neadom, we are gonna look at getting rid of the clutter in your business.
We're gonna focus a little bit on technology but overall just getting rid of the clutter.

"What is your philosophy about decluttering documents?"
"Discard everything."
"Everything?"
Yes.
Everything.

Decluttering Your Business

As you saw in that video, Marie told Katy Curt to get rid of all of her documents.
So, what we're going to take a look at today are the three things you can do to minimize the clutter in your business.

We're going to take a look at all the old hardware you're storing,
we're going to take a look at your team and how you can clean up your team a little bit,
and then your connections.

We wanna make sure we streamline those connections in your business.

Why are you keeping old hardware in your business?
It's like having old food in your refrigerator. You're not going to use it.
It has gotten old and moldy. As well as it's gotten dusty. It's old.

You have got to get rid of those PCs that are sitting there gathering dust in the closet or in that room.
You've probably got boxes of cables that are just sitting there gathering dust and you're thinking one day:
"Oh, well, I'll use them for something. I need an old USB cable. Oh, that old USB hub I have, I'm gonna use that."
Or that old network switch that we removed last year when we did the infrastructure upgrade.

We did the upgrade for a reason—to get rid of your old stuff.

Throw it away!

Call your local Goodwill. A lot of times they'll do dated destruction services at no cost for you and they'll give you a certificate of destruction.
If they don't offer that service at your local Goodwill, then call a local computer recycling company.

Most recycling organizations or companies have computer recycling.
That will cost you some money though.

But get rid of it. Get rid of all that stuff.
It will give you more storage space, more room for something else.
Maybe you want to have an employee playroom or something like that and that'll give you room for that.
Or now you've got room for a new employee.

Optimizing Your Team

So your team size really depends on your business.
We're gonna talk about internal team vs. external team.

Take a look at your internal team.
Do you have more than one person doing the job one person should be doing?
Can you let go of some of your employees and hire one person that can do that job?

Now, I'm not talking about downsizing your company.
But what I'm talking about is:
More people you have to manage in your business means more time it takes out of you to do what you want to do in your business—and even your life or your family.

The other piece is: take a look at your vendors and your partners.
Do you have multiple vendors out there?
If you consolidated, could you have one vendor to deal with?
One bill to pay?
Somebody that understands everything?

If we take a look at the technology side of things:
Maybe you've got a technology guy, an IT guy, a security guy, an alarm guy, you've got an access control guy, and you've got a web guy.

Consolidate those individuals.

A lot of IT people install security, install cameras, some of them do access control.
Some of them also do web development.

So think about it.
You want to make sure they're good at what they do, but you want to consolidate those into one organization you can work with—because typically they are your trusted adviser.

Evaluating Your Connections

So, the connections in your life really need to be evaluated on three things:
Your current mission, vision, and core values for your personal life and your business.

They may be the same and they may be different.
But really take a look at when you're hiring individuals for your company:
Do they meet your mission, vision, and core values?

Because that way everybody is on the bus, everybody is heading in the same direction, and hopefully we've got everybody in the right seat.

That's gonna help you spend time mentoring and coaching your employees instead of disciplining and going all over the place because they're not doing what you want them to do.

Let them know that they can make their decisions based on the company mission, vision, and core values.
And you know what?
They should make the right decisions for you—and that means less stress for you.

If you do the same thing in your family, you get the same effect.
If you're a fitness family, you go to church and you do these things—those types of things make it so everybody is on the same page in your family.

Put that together in your family.
The mom, dad, husband, and wife should be on the same page.
And again, that allows you to utilize your time most effectively.

Conclusion

Okay guys, that sums up our show today!

Marie Kondo is a minimalist expert and she really focuses on minimizing the clutter in your life.
And today on our show we've really tried to take you through the process of getting rid of the clutter in your business:
Getting rid of that old hardware.
We took a look at trying to make sure we had the right people on our team.
And we tried to make sure that we had the right connections in our business to use the most valuable resource we have—which is our time.

We want to utilize that the best possible way we can.

Well, I hope you enjoyed today's episode guys!
I'll see you next time and stay safe!