Has Your Pledge to Go Paperless Perished? Try This

You promised yourself you'd digitize every last receipt, document, and paper record. But the trick to getting rid of paper is to not worry about being perfect.

Wanting to get rid of paper in your life is easy. Following through with that promise to yourself is hard.

I've been mostly paperless for close to 15 years, and the trick to it for me was to think about it the same way I think about taking care of my teeth.

Staying organized is a kind of hygiene. It's almost never a one-and-done clean-up job. So think about dental hygiene. We learn to brush our teeth twice a day, floss once a day, and see a dentist every six months to catch problems before they get worse. However, if you don't follow that schedule precisely, you can still have good dental hygiene. You just have to do enough ...