Clear Your Desktop
How is your desktop? Piled high with papers, catalogs, kids art, unopened mail and more? Wish you had space to work?
Are you ready to attack and clear?
- Set up trash and recycle bags right next to the desk.
- Start at the top, grab the first piece of paper and do a quick rough sort. This means that main decision is whether you are going to keep the item or paper, or throw it out.
- Place the things you are keeping in a pile.
- You might have a few (but only a few) piles like needs immediate attention, put away, read later….
- Set items that need to go to another room near the door, but don’t leave the room….you might get distracted and never come back.
- Keep going until the entire desk top is cleared.
It is actually easier than it sounds. Now you have a clear understanding of what is actually in all those piles. You got rid of the clutter, and you can form your plan to put things away.
