How to arrange things on the desktop, to become more productive

Workplace - is a personal MCC. On how efficiently it is organized, the performance depends. We'll show you how to clean up the mess on the desktop and become more productive.

In the West, there are specialty "professional organizer". It helps customers to clean up the rooms and offices, in paper and electronic files, as well as to develop personalized planning system.

Lisa Zaslav (Lisa Zaslow) - one of those experts.

Studies show that the average person loses an hour a day due to disorganization. At the same time people are terribly annoyed when something can not find it. But to put things in order, it takes much less time.

Lisa Zaslav

That's how Lisa and other experts recommend to organize your workspace to maximize productivity.

Rule 1. Put it right

The monitor should be at eye level and at a distance of 43-45 cm away from you.

Place the frequently used items, such as a telephone or office supplies on the part of the dominant hand. It's convenient: no need to reach out, dumping all around.

Rule 2. Use stationery rationally

Do you really need 10 pens, paper knife and a stapler every day? Keep on the table, only those office supplies that use every day. The rest fold into a pencil case and store it in a table, but rather somewhere far away.

Getting up from the table for a pencil or paper clip, you temporarily turn off the brain from the project you're working on. It will look at it from a new angle, when you will return.

Treyger Amy (Amy Trager), a professional organizer in Chicago

Another expert, Andrew Mellen (Andrew Mellen), points out that better when employees store office stationery supplies in one place (a common chest of drawers or shelves), but not everyone in their mailboxes.

Rule 3. Use stickers for notes without fanaticism

Monitor paste colored papers as a bulletin board, not useful and productive.

When napominalok too much, they are useless.

Emmy Treyger

Be mild - do stickers only with important short-term reminders.

Rule 4. Do not overdo it with the personal belongings

It is important to strike a balance between professional and personal life in the workplace. It's difficult.

Family photos, souvenirs from a holiday and other pleasant things warm the soul and lift the mood for the day. However, too much memorabilia, causing a storm of memories, too distracting.

View slides in the subjects and the brain processes the information, even if we are not aware of this.

Lisa Zaslav

Keep on the desktop no more than three personal belongings.

Rule 5. Regulates the "dialogue" with e-mail

Email - it's still the most convenient way of communication on the Internet. But he can strike on productivity if constantly distracted by emails.

Layfhaker and professional organizers recommend: Check email twice a day at certain hours. All the rest of the time should be busy working.

Yes! And turn off the notification, not to destroy the state of flow.

Rule 6. Leave space for paperwork

Sometimes the desktop is so busy that there is no place to sign or create a document by hand.

Keep to the right or the left (depending on whether you are right-handed or left-handed) is not occupied by an island. Not necessarily large - for the paper work is enough of a rectangle of 30 × 40 cm.

Rule 7. Organize workflows

Do not keep a document not related to the current work. When the table is littered with papers on the year before, past, present and future projects, chaos ensues. To avoid this, experts recommend to group documents in folders:

• important and urgent;
• urgent and unimportant;
• important and not urgent;
• non-urgent and unimportant.

Keep these in a special folder organizer, not in a stack on each other, in order to simplify workflow.

Rule 8. Tidy as often as possible

He helped create the mess Alan Turing and Alexander Fleming. But such examples are rare.

Most people disorder negatively affectsReducing the concentration and efficiency. Regularly wonder whether all the objects in place on your desk?

Even if a person does not notice the mess, he still affects him.

Andrew Mellen

For clarity, we have expressed hacks described in the schedule. Print and hang above the desk.

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