Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA (1888PressRelease)
January 11, 2010 - The Second Monday of Every Year is 'National Clean off Your Desk Day' Are You Ready?
Running Springs, CA. USA - January 11th, 2010 marks National Clean off Your Desk Day which is celebrated nationwide every second Monday of January. Marjorie Geiser professional speaker states that the problem with a messy office, or computer (like emails and files), is it clutters the mind, which leads to such things as decreased creativity, decreased organization, and even perhaps lost items, from important correspondence to bills that didn't get paid! You have to get organized! And what better time than during "Clean off your desk day"!
Marjorie shares some ways to help you get down to business and turn that desk and computer into something that helps you enjoy your day, instead of dread coming into your office.
1. Do you have piles? Pick just one, pull out some new file folders, and do as David Allen suggests: Create names for these files, such as 'articles to read' or 'articles for ideas', or even 'misc'. However, determine what action you must do, and then do it. With EVERY item, do something with it. If it's really old, you can probably even …. ugh! TOSS it!
2. Are you a post-it junkie? Chances are, if you are, you're not looking at many of those post-its. Spend just 5 minutes, right now, looking at all your post-its and ask yourself if you plan to take action on each one. Those that are old, toss. (This does NOT apply to affirmation post-its, but that's for another topic.)
3. Set aside some time to continue to organize. It only needs to be a few minutes, actually. Think about it; if you have been printing up items, or saving great articles, and they accumulate into a pile, if you spent 5 minutes a day looking through what you've accumulated, and taking an ACTION on each, you will feel very accomplished and organized! And those items won't be pulling at your mind, dragging you down.
4. TOSS! Yea, there's that word again. I used to keep all my journals so I could read them, 'when I had time'. Ha! Naturally, as they accumulated, I felt worse and worse. They dragged at my brain! I was afraid I'd miss something important. But then my coach at the time pointed out that IF I needed information on a particular topic, I could easily find that info online! Plus, once these journals and magazines get a certain age, they're old news!
Another tip from David Allen is to clean your email inbox to zero. Have you done that yet?
You want to be as successful as you can and ENJOY your success! This means the mind must be at ease. If things are cluttered around you, your mind clutters and it constantly is thinking/dreading that clutter. Although you may think you live in it just fine, you also worry that you might be missing something and you COULD be, too! But the worst thing you're missing is the chance to enjoy your business and your uncluttered mind.
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