If your workspace is suffering from an overload of “stuff” your nerves may be just as overloaded. Want to free up your mind, gain a little additional time, and enjoy working more in this New Year? Try organizing your desk!
Having Things Cutter Free Will Make Work More Pleasant
If you dread doing paperwork more than a visit to the dentist, it may not be the work…but the environment…you resent the most. A clear, clean, organized desk space will encourage you to get the work done and go the extra mile to leave a lasting impression with personalized real estate notecards or entice you to take 10-minutes to land awesome referrals.
Organizing Your Tools and Information Makes You Efficient
Once you get those items, files, and tools that you use most often organized and within easy reach, you will work faster. You will also be able to “lay your hands” on the information you need more quickly which will make you appear more efficient and more professional.
Who trusts a “professional” with information so piled up they can’t find anything? Do you want your clients to wait on the phone while you search, or watch you struggle when they are seated across the desk from you? No. You want a smooth, elegant and organized appearance to all the things you do in your office.
Fake it Till You Make It
Even if you plan a complete overhaul of all of your marketing and business systems in 2014, starting small with the most often used space will help you FEEL and LOOK like you are organized even before you begin to dig deeply into the back of those desk drawers and into that box you keep in the trunk of the car and that mess that’s floating about in your briefcase.
Start with those areas that you see most often and avoid because they are too troublesome to face. Start with the top of your desk!