How Important is a Clean Desk When Running an Online Business from Home?
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When I first began working from home as an online income business entrepreneur and was very new to the business I tried to gather as much information as I possibly could, especially as in the beginning it is a huge learning curve. Naturally I printed out everything I found so that I could then study it at my leisure.
The result of all this printing and storing of paper started to build up as my office at home is not all that large and eventually I found that I was drowning in paper, and I certainly wasn’t doing my part in saving the trees!
All these papers and notes all over the place created extra stress and anxiety for me and I decided that I needed to sort it all out and get rid of anything I no longer needed.
Here are some tips on what I did:
1. Any documents that I no longer had any further use for went into a box to be sent to the waste paper collection center. Documents which I thought may still be relevant but that I was not currently using, I filed into a box and labeled exactly what they were about so that I could access them when required.
2. Current documents or anything that I use on a regular basis has been placed in a file under subject matter where it is easily accessible but still off my desk.
3. All the Post-it notes that were attached to any available surface have been thrown out and I have written any information that I might need into one notebook which is on my desk.
4. Apart from a pen and a pencil the notebook is the only extra on my desk which leaves me a clear and tidy place to work.
The pleasure derived from sitting down at a desk which contains nothing but a pen, pencil a notebook and my computer and a phone is unbelievable.
It is really enjoyable now to sit down at my desk and concentrate on writing articles, surfing the internet or doing any of the other tasks involved in building a successful and profitable home based online business.
How do you feel about having a clean and tidy desk? Leave a comment as I value your opinion.
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