It's a little insane how cluttered my desk has become (at home) over the course of nine months. I say nine months because that's honestly the last time I chose to work into the evening from home at my desk, instead favoring the companionship of my wife who, you know, I hadn't see all day. There are a handful of seldom-used peripherals, three inboxes (mistake # 1...), my personal laptop+monitor setup (soon to be supplanted by a different laptop+monitor combo), three dozen or so reference books, and roughly 4,000 piles of paper. I really do like order 98% of the time, it's just that THIS disorder accumulated during the other 2% of the time... and I've never been here enough to effectively counter it. With the prospect of facing it - and the wrath of my my wife - every day, I'm tackling it. Today.
Anyway, as I sift through enough to make FEMA consider it a training exercise, I have the following approach, which I hope & pray will work:
- Get rid of the paper - filing, shredding, etc
- Get rid of (or hide) the peripherals as I can
- Downsize the reference collection - this ain't a library, folks
- Start using laptop stand(s)
- Recycle the two years of This Old House that patiently waited for me to find time to sift through pull out project and materials ideas
I'll update as I go... If you don't hear back, please call FEMA after all.
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