Where does it all come from?

Over the last day or so I’ve been spring cleaning my office. I
hate clutter, but somehow it still accumulates faster than I can
I can cope with it!

What happened to the fabled paperless office?

So far I’ve filled two huge garbage sacks and I’ve only done half
the room! And it doesn’t seem to me to be too long ago that I did
the same thing.

The trouble with tidying is that in order to get a good result,
you have to make things a lot worse first.

You can’t clear a cupboard by just opening the doors and looking
in – you have to take everything out and assess the worth of each
item.

The result is that until the process is complete, your room looks
like a tornado has singled you out.

I know I don’t work efficiently in a messy environment, but don’t
have the self-discipline to straighten things away as I go. I
really envy people who are able to keep a clear desk – but I know
that for me, out of sight is out of mind. The moment I put
something in a pending folder I forget about it entirely. So I
have to keep all current jobs in front of me and only file them
away when they are done.

But as we all know, some jobs never get done and the list of ones
needing attention just keeps growing.

I don’t know what the answer is, but every three or four months I
have to have a blitz or mentally I grind to a halt!

And once a year, like now, I need to physically go through
everything in every file, on every shelf and in every cupboard to
weed out the junk and start afresh.

It is a soul-destroying task that never fails to leave me feeling
depressed, but I know it is worth it in the long run because this
act of penance seems to allow my creativity to start flowing
freely again.

Look out world – an uncluttered Avis is about to be unleashed!

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