Clean Up Your Workspace

 

 

Within the next week, set aside some time to clean your desk and your workspace. If you have to come in early or leave late so be it. If it's a big job come in on Saturday.

 

Bring in the wheelie bin, the duster, the bucket and sponge, the vacuum cleaner, the crow bar and tomahawk, what ever it takes to give you back a clean and tidy working space. You'll feel better for it.

 

If in doubt, throw out.

 

'They' say you've only got one chance to make a good first impression. For people to see you're well organised and tidy is a good impression to make.

 

Is it asking too much to come in on Saturday or Sunday every now and then so you can spend time filing and reorganizing? I don't think so.

 

My father, Bert, used to go to work on Saturday morning. I asked him 'Why?' His reply was that he often got more work done in those few hours than he did in the rest of the week. He had peace and quiet, he could tidy up the loose ends of the last week and set himself up for the week ahead. By the time he got home he'd programmed himself to put work behind him for the rest of the weekend.

 

After lunch he'd either go to play tennis, or in winter put on his old clothes and get into the garden. They say that if you want a good garden, work hard in winter!

 

As a boy who grew up on a farm, he turned farming on a quarter acre block into an art form. Come late Saturday afternoon as light was fading, he'd washed down the tools and the paths, put the wheel barrow away, have a shower and spend the rest of the evening with his family.

 

Gardening, that's one of the secrets of a good sleep.

 

I must write soon about the health benefits of gardening.

 

In the meantime, today, as well as staying highly tuned, spend 10 minutes cleaning up your office. Begin it now. The quote below comes from Scottish mountaineer, Bill Murray, with the final paragraph from Johann Goethe:

 

'Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.'

 

'Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.'

 

 

 

 

On the subject of desk tidiness there are two schools of thought: untidy desk - untidy mind: empty desk - empty mind.

 

  

 

Regards and best wishes

 

 

John Miller

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