Post by drsarah on Nov 16, 2018 16:42:56 GMT
So, my desk (actually, not even talking about my desk here, but about my computer table, haven't even made it to my desk yet) has been one of my huge bugbears for years and years. It's the classic example of unmade decisions and undone jobs turning into piles of clutter. Sometimes I work on it for a bit and get some of it done and feel good, but it always sinks back again.
Towards the end of August, I decided just to spend fifteen minutes every day when I wasn't working, working on the stuff on my desk. Oh, and on top of that make sure I kept up with the incoming stuff so it wasn't a Forth Bridge situation. Fifteen minutes. If I didn't know what to do about the next item in the pile, that day's fifteen minutes was for thinking about it/researching it and trying to figure out what I should do/wanted to do.
This worked really, really well. Over the next two months, bit by bit, I got astonishing amounts of years-old crud dealt with. I almost cleared the backlog.
However, I didn't quite clear it, and I also didn't do as good a job as I could have on keeping up with the incoming stuff (as some of what I was doing involved finally ordering things I'd meant to order, there was quite a bit of incoming stuff), and inevitably there came the day-turning-into-a-few-days when I missed my 15 minute session, and... now it's looking messy again and I am once again feeling unmotivated to deal with it.
The difference this time, of course, is that I've seen what I can achieve and I know I can make it happen if I try.
So, back to trying. For the past couple of days, I've tried to at least deal with incoming stuff. Today was an annual leave day for me, so I wasn't at work, so that means fifteen minutes on the desk. Time to get started.
