Relaxification of Work Area
I’ve been motivated of late to clean up my workspace at my office. Unfortunately, since I do not work from home, there are more limitations to what I can do to improve my surroundings, but doing something is better than doing nothing. I have found that I can be much more productive and much less stressed out if I’m not surrounded by clutter. This morning, I read this article, and I was inspired to continue along this path of cleanliness and super-organization.
I realized that one of my drawers, the top drawer of the smaller cabinet next to me, had become increasingly annoying. This is the drawer where I put my stamps, but I also tend to throw condiments in there, you know, the extra Chinese mustards and soy sauces, salt and pepper packets, some Sugar in the Raw packets, etc. Twenty minutes into throwing away condiment packets, I realized I had never cleaned this drawer out. I’ve been here for six years. That’s a whole lot of condiments. Apparently, saving condiments is not as useful a practice as I once thought it was. It’s staggering to think how much of that crap in particular gets wasted.
Stuffed in the back of this drawer were remnants of whomever worked here before me. Among these remnants were four rubber stamps (I like the IMPORTANT stamp, personally) and a pack of Avery Reinforcements, the kind we used to use back in grade school to secure our looseleaf pages. I thumbtacked the pack of reinforcements to a wall next to me, and left the stamps on someone’s desk. I’d e-mailed her a link to that article earlier. She’s surrounded constantly by clutter, and I think she’s never actually closed an e-mail she’s received (she uses Eudora, a miserable e-mail client that doesn’t appear to have any kind of limitation on how many e-mails are opened at one time, and it also seems to remember exactly what you had opened before you shut your computer down). She’s been here a lot longer than me. I’m hoping I can look forward to the museum that evolves if and when she decides to relaxify.
I would have to say that getting the best chair you can is a great investement. Their is nothing worse than being uncomfortable whilst sitting at your desk.
I do have a decent chair, but I’ve considered a yoga ball as a replacement- or “Fitness Orb.” That would go over real well where I work…