The Real Reason I Seldom Take a Day Off

While a clean desk is a great goal, my organized piles that greet me when I come in remind me of exactly what my priorities for the day should be.  No one else tells me what my priorities are - I decide them for myself.

I would love a clean desk, myself, but I think I'm like you -- those piles!

My wife would agree with your post.  I need to do just that!

Okay now, I need to stop and clean my desk. I do that, then it gets filled up with papers again.

I totally understand that need. She is right in that sense. I would love to have a clean desk to start my day. That way, I feel like I can think. When it's messy, I often feel not at peace.

Off to cleaning my desk now. Thanks for the nudge.

Colleen

One time I was talking with Dave Liniger at a conference and he said he was gone so much that he would come back from a trip and throw a lot of stuff away. If it was important they would write back. It's probably a good thing Gail adopted this policy. As for myself? Well, I would like to think that creative minds are seldom tidy.

Well, ok, it might not e a clean desk, but the piles are neat and in nice rows. That counts for something, right?  :)

I sincerely hope that Gail Liniger never, ever, ever, makes a surprise visit to my home!!

I understand the policy of a clean desk reducing the mind 'clutter'. I like the piles, hopefully in category order, spread around neatly.  Did you ever notice the people that are total 'flighty dingbats', their offices always look like an explosion took place?  There ya have it.  Gail is right.

Colleen, I think Lynn just called me a flighty dingbat!  lol!

My desk is a mess.  It has always been a mess.  It always will be a mess.  BUT, I do know where everything is within the mess. 

Colleen, I am a piler as well not a filer. I think we just have our natural styles of organization. I find everything just fine in my piles.