Do you work in 'organised chaos' or is your desk shiny clean?

15 years ago

Originally Posted by garyfromdurham

I am not a messy person in general, but because I run a number of sites and do multiple tasks per day I end up being surrounded by lots of 'organised' little piles of print outs, 'to-do' lists, manual, books, files etc..

I know where everything is but then one day, I just can't take any more and I have to clear my desk of everything and tidy up.

Today is one of those days!

Can you work in mess or do you have to have everything cleared around you before you work?

I am hoping I am not the only slob around here LOL

Gary

Desk and floor and even living room. Total chaos. Only now, the guinea pigs start eating my notes on their daily rampage around my office.

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Tsnyder

15 years ago

Chaos... always. Organized... occasionally.

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garyfromdurham

15 years ago

Well that makes me feel a lot better.

My mess is only confined to one room and I don't have guinea pigs eating my paperwork *were you pulling my leg Kevin?*

Gary

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Kevin Riley

15 years ago

Originally Posted by garyfromdurham

Well that makes me feel a lot better.

My mess is only confined to one room and I don't have guinea pigs eating my paperwork *were you pulling my leg Kevin?*

Gary

Nope. Every day, we let them out for a few hours of running about. They started in the kitchen, but they love my office (all the shelves and places to hide out). They go absolutely nuts running around in here. And, they actually pull pieces of paper out of bottom shelves and chew the edges. Total maniacs.

But it is so much fun to have them running around in here, with their constant burbling and chirping. Michael Brown and I did a long webinar the other day, and you can hear the girls squealing in the background a few times. They are a lot of fun.

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DogScout

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Kevin Riley

Nope. Every day, we let them out for a few hours of running about. They started in the kitchen, but they love my office (all the shelves and places to hide out). They go absolutely nuts running around in here. And, they actually pull pieces of paper out of bottom shelves and chew the edges. Total maniacs.

But it is so much fun to have them running around in here, with their constant burbling and chirping. Michael Brown and I did a long webinar the other day, and you can hear the girls squealing in the background a few times. They are a lot of fun.

Sounds kool. And a bunch of fun entertainment too.

everything here is somewhere, just not always sure exactly where.

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rm.spain 15 years ago

I clean up once each quarter more or less... takes me a whole day but gosh...once it's done I'm much more efficient for about a month. Then I start slowing down and what do you know... time to close another quarter.. :-)

I use 2 monitors too, helps me a lot.

Once rule I've been sticking to last month has been zero papers on my desk except my to do list. I have one "to-do" list per project and they're neatly stacked. The rest I file and sometimes stash!!

The curious thing is that the stuff you stash, you barely ever use again. You only find those documents when you move!!

Rob
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Zeus66

15 years ago

Forcing myself to stay tidy and organized is Chinese water torture. Life's too short. As long as I know where something is (roughly) it's good enough for me. Better Homes & Gardens can KMA.

John

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webwriter 15 years ago

No table surface in my home is shiny clean. There are papers and books on those surfaces and I seem to know where everything is when I need it! The only time I bother to tidy those surfaces up is when I've misplaced something and the only way to find that item is to literally turn those places inside out. Of course, I don't make a bigger mess --- just go where I think the missing item might be and go through everything.

After I'm through rooting about, the given surface(s) do look cleaner.

I remember the time when the papers and books on my dining room table was so large that I nicknamed the mess "Mt. Trashmore," LOL! I've since cleaned that surface off and threw away stuff I'd long forgotten about and all of that stuff was outdated. Now it looks like another Mt. Trashmore is in the making. Got to see what I can do to prevent it from growing.
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Sandeep Shah

15 years ago

My suggestion: Instead of having a printed and printing our several stuff, install a add on monitor and get rid of the printer. Your work place will be much better then!

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garyfromdurham

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Sandeep Shah

My suggestion: Instead of having a printed and printing our several stuff, install a add on monitor and get rid of the printer. Your work place will be much better then!

Sandeep

In theory that is a brilliant idea but I prefer to read hard copies of reports etc. My brain seems to absorb the information easier.

Gary

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LynnM 15 years ago

It's chaos, but I know where most things are. There was a fun, and sadly short-lived thread a while back asking: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...your-desk.html

Lynn
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InternetM39482

15 years ago

Mine is organized, always!

Helps me work better and get more done.

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ChrisBa

15 years ago

I like my desk as clear as possible, but it unfortunately has been getting more and more messy, i blame kids!

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Ashley Skuse

15 years ago

I'm somewhere between messy and tidy. My desk does pick up a bit, but I eventually get round to tidying it up a bit. Sometimes though it just ends up being a tidy mess, if that makes sense.

However, it's nice having a clean empty desk with a minimal amount of objects. A cluttered desk is a cluttered mind, as they say.

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Kim Standerline

15 years ago

I live in organised chaos full stop, drives my husband batty

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azland55

15 years ago

Definitely organized chaos, and when that oraganised chaos is moved, I just can't find anything anymore. lol

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Lee Wilson

15 years ago

I am a living nightmare!

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Kenster

15 years ago

Completely clean desk, Very organized by nature...maybe a little OCD going on!

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petelta

15 years ago

Originally Posted by garyfromdurham

I am not a messy person in general, but because I run a number of sites and do multiple tasks per day I end up being surrounded by lots of 'organised' little piles of print outs, 'to-do' lists, manual, books, files etc..

I know where everything is but then one day, I just can't take any more and I have to clear my desk of everything and tidy up.

Today is one of those days!

Can you work in mess or do you have to have everything cleared around you before you work?

I am hoping I am not the only slob around here LOL

Gary

I have my office organized into areas depending on which niche lol. I use 3 white boards that are erased each day and filled by the end of the day.

I try and make a point to grab each pile of post-its and stickies one time a month and put them onto one organzied document...this happens about once every 3 months really though.

Travis

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1960Texan

15 years ago

I often dream of staying organized, but within a day my desk reverts back to its natural chaotic state.

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Istvan Horvath 15 years ago

Originally Posted by 1960Texan

I often dream of staying organized, but within a day my desk reverts back to its natural chaotic state.

Exactly my case + add the rumbling cat on a 12x4' desk
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Music City Copy

15 years ago

I love to be organized, but I fall off the track far more often than not.

For example, I have read about 7/8ths of Getting Things Done, the Bible of personal organization. My bookmark saving my place is a piece of paper with a partially finished list of how I will implement the system. The book is now tucked on top of another row of books on my bookshelf. ha ha ha

Not long ago I cleaned off everything, bought a 32" monitor, and now I am in total bliss....EXCEPT for that huge pile of papers and files I stacked in the corner "to be organized later."

Oy.

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Dherm

15 years ago

I tend to tidy up the desk last thing before going to bed, because by then it usually looks like an explosion in a paper factory. I like to see the desk clear every morning when I enter my office with my coffee it sets me up for the day.

Regards. Dherm

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JohnMcCabe 15 years ago

Actually, the top of my desk is shiny clean. The stacks of paper on top of it do get a bit dusty sometimes. And sometimes the chaos isn't all that organized. That's when I go on one of my cleaning jags and get everything nice and neat...

And spend the next two weeks looking for stuff.

It's like the old W.C. Fields film, where Fields leaves a mountain of papers on an old roll-top desk and returns to find that an efficiency expert has sorted everything into nice neat piles. Fields starts tossing the papers like a salad, inspects the mess for a moment, and extracts the document he's looking for.

I am trying to get better about it, because if anything ever happened where someone else would have to make sense of my desk they would be in deep doodoo...
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Hanz 15 years ago

Fully organized and clean!

From left to right...

-Fan
-Desk Lamp
-open binder for taking notes
-post it notes with future plans/ideas
-above that there are 2 fortune cookies notes which say "You will be unusually successful in Business." And "Good health will be yours for a long time." That keeps me in a good mood and motivated.
-Speakers
-Headphones
-Boxing glove signed personally to me by reigning WBC Heavyweight Champion Vitali Klitschko.
-Screen wipes
-Design books and Internet Success books
-Chair with my 1985 Superman pillow as a back cushion. That is all!
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- Hanz 15 years ago
  
  Oh yeah, and there is the PSP lying there under the monitor which I play during breaks. Good to relax the soul sometimes.
  
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JennSpencerIM

15 years ago

Wow that is a neat and clean office!

I work in chaos...never organized. If I organize, I can't find anything!

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Hanz 15 years ago

Originally Posted by JennSpencerIM

Wow that is a neat and clean office! I work in chaos...never organized. If I organize, I can't find anything!

I had this problem. But then I realize the stuff I don't really need shouldn't be on the desk. Either file it or discard it.
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- garyfromdurham 15 years ago
  
  Hanz
  
  Please straighten the books up.....they are making the place look untidy
  
  Seriously....that is one very tidy office. *stares in wonderment....then looks at my office *
  
  The curious thing is that the stuff you stash, you barely ever use again. You only find those documents when you move!!
  
  LOL How true!!
  
  Gary
  
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money2k

15 years ago

Computer files are a mess. Have no office and my house is always in chaos. I have a 4 year old boy and a soon to be 3 year old daughter...

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Music City Copy 15 years ago

Here's my "situation" at home.

The office outside of home is much nicer, but no big screen.
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RebeccaL

15 years ago

Physically my area is pretty neat and tidy. Just the laptop, diary and notebook.
Mentally though, thats another matter.. organized chaos reigns there

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Dennis Gaskill

15 years ago

My file system is as neat as a pin. My books and music collection are impeccably ordered. My business receipts are all ordered chronologically.

...which is a way to avoid saying my desktop is organized chaos. Of course, my wife would call it full blown chaos, but she just doesn't understand genius!

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