Take 10 Minutes to Organize Your Work Environment

Sometimes we can get agitated and frustrated not because of the workload, but because of our work environment. 

It’s hard for me to write when I have a messy work environment. Some people perform better in a messy work environment because they feel like the accumulated mess that they have has developed over the months gives them a cozy “writers” environment. 

Even if you lazy, here are some tips to organizing your work environment. Before you turn on the computer, check around the room. Go to the nearest item and put it back to place. Whatever it is, start by doing something simple – just one thing and it will motivate you to doing another item, and then two more items, and then before you know it, you’ll have a fresh new working environment with a lot more free space. Turn on the computer and get to work. Unfortunately, there is a lot of furniture in my room that I do not own so I cannot start moving it around the house based on my own wanting to do so. 

And although 10 minutes may not seem like a lot, it makes a difference when you actually put the effort into tidying up your place. But if you really take the time to clean up the details, then you’ll find yourself spending more than 10 minutes, such as an hour. 10 minutes was just an estimated measurement of time to get your place clean. Organizing your work environment shouldn’t be that difficult when you just do one thing at a time. Do it about once a week. Things that you usually get distracted from will be out of the way and will no longer waste any more time as if you were to get distracted by them. Now you just have to worry about organizing that desktop.