Messy Desk? Have you ever seen an office that look as if it had gone through the spin cycle of the washing machine, or perhaps a dump truck backed up and dropped its load?
There are newspapers, magazines, pink phone slips, yellow, blue, and green sticky notes, pads and pads of paper, new files, used files, colored files.
Then there are papers - big pieces, little pieces, new pieces and old pieces.
How can a person get any work done with such clutter? All those papers aren't even needed. The person who sits behind that desk may look busy, but is the job really getting done?
Think of the time wasted just trying to find something in all that mess.
Take A Look At Your Desk
Take a look at your desk. What do you see? Better yet what don't you see?
If only little patches of the top of your desk are visible, you're not using your desk as it was meant to be used. You're also wasting valuable time.
At least 60 percent of the papers piled on your desk no longer have any value or meaning. They've piled up because you didn't have a system.
Instead of deciding what should be done with them, you've just put them in a pile.
The Issue Is Time And Money
The issue isn't whether a desk is clean or messy. That's a smokescreen. The real issues are:
- Time and money,
- The quality of your work, and
- The length of time needed to complete it.
With an organized, efficient desk, you can save both time and money. Fewer things will slip through the cracks.
You can stay on top of all your unfinished work, locate your papers and files within seconds, and become more productive.
You'll look forward to coming to work in the morning, and you'll get home earlier at night. You'll feel better about your job - and you'll feel better about yourself.
