7 Tips to Keep Your Desk Tidy!

Stud­ies have shown that messy desk decreases your pro­duc­tiv­ity. (That means messy peo­ple with messy desk too)  You do not have space to work with.  You are enclosed into a small space.  Emo­tion­ally and psy­cho­log­i­cally you feel over­whelmed.  You feel dis­turbed and trou­bled if you want to spend time clear­ing up the mess in order to get things mov­ing.  Well, you should!  Fol­low our listed tips and you will improve your per­sonal productivity!

1. Devise a sys­tem to man­age paper – The first thing that can make your desk messy is paper.  We make tons of print­outs and leave them on our desk.  Devise a way to man­age the paper on your desk.  Such as fil­ing.  Plac­ing in a to-do and done cor­ner.  The more paper you have, the more likely you get your­self into a messy sit­u­a­tion in han­dling them.
2. Get rid of Post-it notes – The many Post-it notes may not be signs of pro­duc­tiv­ity.  Yes, some of us may be pro­duc­tive with Post-it notes, but not all of us.  Fur­ther­more, the Post-it notes will only cre­ate messy and unsightly flaps of papers.
3. Trash those print­outs – Trash those use­less print­outs if there is no use of them any­more.  Of course, they can be used as recy­cle paper.  Keep them in one cor­ner if they are serv­ing that pur­pose.  Keep­ing redun­dant print­outs only waste space on the desk.  If pos­si­ble, don’t even print out as they are not envi­ron­men­tal friendly too!
4. Keep away unused sta­tion­ar­ies – We usu­ally leave our sta­tion­ar­ies lying around on the desk.  Your pens, erasers, pen­cils, sta­ple, etc are just lit­tle ingre­di­ents to a messy desk.  Keep them neat and tidy when you are not using them.
5. Keep your books – Keep the books in the shelves if you are not using them.  What’s the point of leav­ing them on the desk where it serves no pur­pose except as orna­ments?  Take a stock take of your books.  They may be out-dated and not rel­e­vant any­more.  When­ever pos­si­ble, dump those out-dated books!
6. Eat away from your desk – Go out to have your meal.  Not at your work desk.  There will be ten­dency that you will mess up your work desk with the food you’ve had for lunch!  You do not want to see the food debris of the ham­burger you took for lunch, right?  Reward your­self with a lunch outside!
7. Limit photo frames on the desk – Your fam­ily pho­tos will only dis­tract you.  You will have the ten­dency to make a phone call home to check if every­thing is fine.  If you want to make an appoint­ment for din­ner, etc.  Keep the photo frames min­i­mal.  Make them serve their pur­pose of giv­ing you encour­age­ment at work.  You be rewarded with a focus mind and a lesser time needed to wipe the dust off the photo frames!

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