Let’s Look In Your Drawers
June 18th, 2008
To have an organized office we need a system of dealing with all the paper work and other things that make their way into our offices. Start organizing from the inside out. If you have drawers, containers, a cupboard or closet that you use for your pens, paper, stapler, hole punch and other necessary office supplies start organizing there. Even if your desk is a mess, remember it will get worse during the organizing phase before it gets better. But it will get better.
The reason to start in the drawers, container or cupboards is:
•You will know how much space you have available to put the things away that are out on your desk.
•You can de-junk a lot of things that have been hidden in your drawers or in the closet thus creating more space.
•You won’t be wasting time putting things away into these places from other parts of your office only to have to go back and organize those spaces when your desk is unburied.
I was organizing the office of a woman who has a successful business and we started in her desk drawer. That had been the catch all for everything she didn’t know what to do with. (Actually going back six years). Her drawers were unusable to her. Things had been just stuck in the drawers—out of mind out of site. When we were done she even had one drawer that was empty. Before we started every drawer had been chuck full of ‘stuff’.
What is the most unique, fun, or great find that you have uncovered in your office?