| I wrote about the benefits of creating a couch-based office a little over a year ago, but I received such positive feedback that I thought I’d write about it again because the problem of paper clutter is so insidious. It seems to come out of the ground like geysers in Yellowstone National Park—endless, constant, and forever. And like Old Faithful in Yellowstone, the largest geyser in most home offices is the desk.
It’s a rare person who keeps a constantly neat and tidy desk, despite the many organizational experts who tell us to clean them off every night. Who really does this? Most of us are riddled with guilt that we don’t. In fact, desks are often a major source of stress because of a simple physics type rule: Horizontal surfaces attract clutter. The bigger the surface, the more clutter it attracts. Read more… |