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!