Organizing Your Desk For Time Management Results
Spending Time On Organization Is Time Well Spent!
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Visual this: You have a clean desk, no clutter. Ahhh. Every drawer you open has tidy compartments. Nice. You know exactly where to go to find the most important To Do’s and where to go to find the most pressing Urgent To Do’s —they’re rarely the same items! How true.
I’m going to assume you have file drawers with labeled file folders in them. We’ll talk about that another time.
We probably all agree that a clutter-free desk would be great. How do we get there? Things that used to be recommended, such as an accordion file for things on hold, don’t make sense to me in an information-heavy environment. Also, forget about the advice of having an Input Tray that rapidly accumulates tons of paper. It gives me the feeling of having a non-specific, hard to look at file folder on my computer. We can do better than that! I’ll tell you how.
