How’s your desk - at home or work?
I’m sitting at my office desk right now and it looks pretty cluttered. I have a poster board with pictures of family, and various telephone numbers and a print out reminding me to “Calm Down---Shut-up—And Quit Trippin”! Yeah, sometimes I need to be reminded! LOL!
Then I have the various files sitting haphazardly awaiting my touch. I also have three framed pictures, one or two stuffed mascots, some figurines that were a gift from a client who visited with us recently – a coffee mug, I don’t even drink regular coffee or coffee for that matter often! And a Witch doll, yes a Witch! I call her my good witch and she’s smiling too.
Also on my desk is the telephone, my computer, printer and several CD’s because I enjoy listening to my music. I used to have a lot until I came to my senses and copied most of the songs into my RealPlayer Library.
My desk might be messy to someone else but I know where everything is. I know I have to clean it a bit though because the dust has built up on it and I’ve been in and out during the holidays. I’ll get around to it eventually.
According to Alijonoffice.com who conducted a survey “What does your desk says about you?” about 20 percent of workers say they are messy and 21 percent say they are “neat freaks”! I don’t consider myself to be messy, no really, I don’t.
Some other facts I learned from the survey were:
56 percent of women say they are organized and neat while 42 percent of our counterparts, the male of the species, say they’re neat too. Hmmm, I wonder if that goes for at home too. Women do we believe that? We’re talking the same man who drops his towel on the floor after a bath, right?
OK, OK, to be fair some men are pretty neat, so neat they’re the “Martha Stewarts” of their homes. My hats off to you guys.
People from the Northeast keep their a lot more organized than we who live in the South or those who live in the West.
The older you become the messier you are. I don’t know about that. Are they sure it’s not the other way around I wondered. Kids are messy, pre-teen, teenager, college age….messy!
People who are more educated and who make more money are messier than those who are not well-educated or those who earn less than $35,000 a year. Interesting!
Well, I do plan on cleaning up my desk a bit as soon as I get some of the work load completed. But in the mean time if you want to yours before mine, the quickest steps to take according to Alijonoffice is
Sort – yep, you’re going to have to do it, sort through the piles so you know what’s what!
File – put the stuff you sort into some sort of filing system
Set spaces – that means finding a place for everything and this will mean you won’t have a messy desk again!
Purge – throw the stuff you no longer want away. And keep doing it on a regular basis!
I’ll try, I really will! New Year, new rules!
To read the article in more detail, here’s the link:
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