Post by yamanhosen5657 on Mar 6, 2024 2:44:22 GMT -7
It's time for a new you—at least at work. So no matter what you've got right now all over your desk, ask yourself: what if, starting tomorrow, you had a clean, clear space to focus on your work? What if you had a place to enjoy jotting down your ideas instead of a place that drags you down? 5 things you should automate today Start automating For the past decade or so, from blogs to Reddit to TikToks, I've seen hundreds of minimalist desk setups. But they're often so clean that I can't imagine someone actually doing work there day to day. You never see any peripherals like printers or scanners or speakers or phone chargers—but they certainly look cool in a static photo.
Recently, I saw a video editor on YouTube describe the lengths he went to to make his "dream desk setup" so that—both above and below—it appears to be entirely "wireless." Obviously, being a video editor means his desk isn't just for the sake of looking good, as he incorporates all kinds of speakers and editing decks and external hard drives and Panama mobile number list controllers. But he still maintains a clean spot to work. After watching the video, I was convinced the time was now—not just to clean the top of my desk, but to make my whole work area look and work better. So I spent the following week researching similar videos, gathering tricks and tips, and then ordering $60-80 worth of cable-organizing products. Finally, I spent one day putting it all together.
First things first: my before times Matt's cluttered, cord-filled desk I tend to clean the top of my desk every four to six months, but almost immediately, it forms piles of half-baked projects and snail mail and receipts—so much so that, within days, I'm back to stacks of things everywhere. (And not just on my desk but also on the ground all around my chair.) If you zoom in on the photo above, you'll see the giant bundles of cables like spaghetti coming down the back of my desk near my feet that always caused havoc. Turning a disaster area into a clean, useful space may seem like a big challenge, but if you break it down into smaller parts, it's absolutely manageable. Map out your plan The old saying "if you fail to plan, you plan to fail" rings very true in this case.
Recently, I saw a video editor on YouTube describe the lengths he went to to make his "dream desk setup" so that—both above and below—it appears to be entirely "wireless." Obviously, being a video editor means his desk isn't just for the sake of looking good, as he incorporates all kinds of speakers and editing decks and external hard drives and Panama mobile number list controllers. But he still maintains a clean spot to work. After watching the video, I was convinced the time was now—not just to clean the top of my desk, but to make my whole work area look and work better. So I spent the following week researching similar videos, gathering tricks and tips, and then ordering $60-80 worth of cable-organizing products. Finally, I spent one day putting it all together.
First things first: my before times Matt's cluttered, cord-filled desk I tend to clean the top of my desk every four to six months, but almost immediately, it forms piles of half-baked projects and snail mail and receipts—so much so that, within days, I'm back to stacks of things everywhere. (And not just on my desk but also on the ground all around my chair.) If you zoom in on the photo above, you'll see the giant bundles of cables like spaghetti coming down the back of my desk near my feet that always caused havoc. Turning a disaster area into a clean, useful space may seem like a big challenge, but if you break it down into smaller parts, it's absolutely manageable. Map out your plan The old saying "if you fail to plan, you plan to fail" rings very true in this case.