Tuesday, 10 January 2012 10:00
It’s surprising what can be found on a desk and in its drawers. During my first moving I found in it very old mummified sandwiches from my primary school times. Now it is getting more serious.
Happiness means a clean desk as some people claim. In the world where there’re more and more conditions which have to be fulfilled to enjoy happiness this desk conditions I’d neglect if I didn’t read info on 2nd January in a Garfield calendar: Cleaning Desk Day. So, I’ve celebrated it with a good result.
Order
Order on a desk means an introduction to calmness, satisfaction and well-organized working hours. It’s the way to get rid of chaos and stress via facing a pile of notes, documents and miraculously found things. Everything has to be sorted, e.g. as: important, archive, rubbish, DK ( don’t know what to do with it). As an immediate result -more space and more freedom.
Minimalism.
There is a human need to have and keep things. Reasons may be different like everything can be useful one day and we cannot be sure what we’ll need in future. Having less, you make a profit: enjoying more time, more space, more sorted things. Cleaning a desk teaches how to recognize useless things in order to throw them away. It’s a good exercise to begin.
Message.
Show me your desk and I’ll tell some news about you. So let our desk to send good info about us. My desk used to illustrate a map of my thousands thoughts from a budget plan to poetry. All space of my over 4 square meter desk was occupied. Now my desk says that I have been trying to improve.
Habit.
Unfortunately in this case a well done job is not enough. Only repeating, which means sometimes cleaning a desk 2-3 times a day, can lead to order, minimalism and calmness in everyday life. Napoleon Hill writes that a man develops his personality practising the law of habit.
