10 things to toss before the end of 2010:

1. All those stacks. You know what I'm talking about. The papers you intend to file, articles and magazines you hope to read, coupons you'd like to use. Toss the magazines, articles and coupons. Either toss or file the papers or put them somewhere. Better yet, hire someone to file these for you — America needs jobs.

2. Costly customers. In a tough economy, it's hard to jettison any client or customer — after all, you need the cash flow, right? But what it they're actually costing you money? Take a good hard look at your high-maintenance, low-profit customers and evaluate whether you'd be better off without them in 2011.

3. Paper or spreadsheet-based bookkeeping systems. Seriously, are you still operating like it's the 19th or 20th century? If so, it's time to catch up with the rest of us and use one of the many, easy-to-use, affordable bookkeeping software programs or cloud-based bookkeeping services.

4. Clunky contact management. Still using a spreadsheet, word processing program, your e-mail contacts list, or even your mobile phone to keep track of your important contacts? Those are hard to use, easy to lose, and time consuming (ever try to create a quick mailing list from your mobile phone contacts?). Once again, there are a number of affordable, easy sales management programs or Internet-based services.