So, it took a week full of procrastination, two bags of garbage, and two cans of recycling, but my desk is finally clear for the first time in a year. I can write and work on my schedule! I don't have to close my laptop to have a bare surface.
The oldest thing I found in my piles of stuff was a coupon from 2013. I also found some old 2014 Christmas cards, more expired coupons, catalogs galore, and lots of actionable items. I have a small box with a handful of things to file and a shopping basket from my old store (pictured below) with actionable items.
Sorting out the actionable items is my next job. I am thinking about using the Sunday Basket method espoused by Lisa Woodruff. I need to read more about it but it seems workable. Any suggestions, great brain?
Sunday, January 10, 2016
The Desk is Clear!
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Sunday, January 3, 2016
Tackling the Desk
I am not a New Year's person. I don't make resolutions. I don't do the "New Year, New You" thing. I have goals and I reevaluate them every so often but I always look at the January 1st like an odometer turning over. It's amusing but really doesn't have that much of an impact on my life. That is why I hesitated to post this the first few weeks of the year. I was motivated more by time off than the odometer turning over to 2016.
So this is my desk after several hours worth of work and one trip downstairs with a trash can full of recycling. After I post this, I will make another trip downstairs for the same reason. I wish I had taken a picture because it had reached critical mass. The pile to the left of my laptop was almost level with the top of the laptop and the pile on the other side above the printer which is still buried in stuff. I have a few more hours worth of work but I want to get it cleared off tonight. I will still have filing to do and I need to set up my actionable file but I will at least have a work surface by the end of the night.
Why I am doing this? I just can't take it any more. I am tired of being buried in stuff. I am taking three classes next semester in graduate school and I need to be organized. This past semester was a constant struggle since I was always digging stuff out of the pile on my desk. Of course, the desk is just the beginning but you have to start somewhere and this is where I need to start. Now back to work!
So this is my desk after several hours worth of work and one trip downstairs with a trash can full of recycling. After I post this, I will make another trip downstairs for the same reason. I wish I had taken a picture because it had reached critical mass. The pile to the left of my laptop was almost level with the top of the laptop and the pile on the other side above the printer which is still buried in stuff. I have a few more hours worth of work but I want to get it cleared off tonight. I will still have filing to do and I need to set up my actionable file but I will at least have a work surface by the end of the night.
Why I am doing this? I just can't take it any more. I am tired of being buried in stuff. I am taking three classes next semester in graduate school and I need to be organized. This past semester was a constant struggle since I was always digging stuff out of the pile on my desk. Of course, the desk is just the beginning but you have to start somewhere and this is where I need to start. Now back to work!
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