Some will say that I am not the most organized person on earth... while I agree I certainly am not the least organized. I think I've seen the worst and I don't come close.
Having said that, my desk does get overly littered with papers and hardware that need to be purged, fixed or filed. I expect that I should liberally apply those three actions in that order specifically as I think that the purging would be the most beneficial. If the paper is still where I placed it then I probably don't need it anymore anyway.
There are some avoidance habits that people have in order to not have to do tasks that they don't want to do, one of which is to organize their work space. It sounds like a productive venture until the real task needing attention is considered as it usually has a fairly high importance and may have a low urgency level. My problem is that I don't default to cleaning up and organizing as a procrastinative measure... I tend towards finding some other menial task that is low in importance and urgency and often creates yet more paperwork.
I put office cleanup on my schedule for today.
Oh, right, here I am writing a blog post... at least it doesn't create any paper.
Jeff.
