Your Personal Workspace

Revitalizing my life...
In this old journal I found I had some notes about making my workspace uniquely mine with personal treasures. And I did this for years. I can picture my desk in my head. I had a designated place for papers. Favorite pictures in frames nearby, an inspiring daily flip calendar, a pretty piece of fabric for my water glass, a plant, a candle, and most importantly a basket for papers. It was a good place to be to do things such as pay bills, shop online, read blogs, and manage my family's life.

Now, don't get me wrong, it would degenerate into a mess during busy seasons requiring a battle with the big bad scary Paper Monster. But I could restore it back to a place of organization and beauty.

Today, I have more than a mess. I have no inspiring and pleasant place for work. My workspace looks like somebody has been telling people (for the last few months) who don't know what to do with a piece of paper, "Oh, go lay it on my desk." Now I know that it has been cleaned off sometime in the last few weeks because of searching for some missing piece of paper for one of my college boys but it LOOKS really bad. I think the mess I'm staring at will take two hours and one big trash bag because it's including all the paper junk I needed to sort through that was on my Teacher Desk.

I think it's important to identify how long a certain job will take because sometimes staring at a job and getting started is HARD. And it's really easy to say that, "This job will take me all day and I'm going to have no fun!" Quickly analyzing how long it will take and what you will need for the job can help to see that it's not that bad. And it motivates me to move fast and try to get it done in less time than I thought.

But here's my lesson for the day that I'm pulling out of this old journal--I need to make this workspace uniquely mine with personal treasures and pretty it up with a plant, a picture, a framed photograph, AND a basket for the papers that I tell to some child, "Oh, go put it on my desk."