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Quick Steps To Organize Your Desk
Is
your desk taking on a life of its own? You’re busy working
hard and have little time to keep your
desk cleared off. The problem with this is that a disorganized
desk leads to decreased productivity. The following are quick
steps to help you get your desk organized:
1.
Start from scratch.
Get
a cardboard box and take everything off the top of your
desk and place it into the box. As you
do this, throw away what obviously needs to be chunked.
2.
Take care of your paperwork.
One
thing that seems to litter every desk is paperwork. From
bills to invoices, paperwork
can be a huge space waster. Plus, once it piles up, it’s
much more difficult to take care of it and takes a much longer
time.
Create file folders for every category and get busy filing
those papers now. Once you have a system in place, it will
be easier to automatically file paperwork when you’re finished
with it, instead of piling it on top of your desk.
3.
Organize your desk drawers.
Desk
drawers have a tendency to become the catch-all. It’s so
easy to just open a drawer
and throw something inside to hide it real quick. Thus, you’ll
find your drawers in quite a disarray and quite fast, too.
Buy a few drawer organizers or small plastic crates to organize
your pens, sticky notes, paper clips, etc.
4.
Use a desktop organizer.
A
quick visit to your local office supply store will net you
with lots of excellent organizational
tools. One such tool is a desktop organizer, which is perfect
for maintaining desktop neatness, while keeping those things
handy that you use every day, like lotion, lip gloss, pictures,
etc.
5.
Keep your planner in plain view.
When
your desk is in disarray, it can be challenging to keep up
with your schedule. Often
times, your planner is buried beneath a rubble of mess, and
rather than dig for the planner, you opt for jotting appointments
on a note pad or a handy piece of paper. These things get
lost in the shuffle of the mess on your desk, and then you
start
missing appointments. Keeping your desk clean will keep you
on track.
6.
Practice a quick pick-up at the end of the day.
In
order to keep your desk cleaned off once it’s organized,
you should
put a quick pick-up in motion at the end of each day. This
will help keep things tidy and in order.
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