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Clean Desk Day

22 June 2009 286 views 4 Comments
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Today, on the 22nd of June 2009, I have christened it as Clean Desk Day for me, and am inviting others to participate too. I’ve had a fairly (understatement!) messy desk for the longest time, and due to lots of research by others, I’m convinced that a clean desk helps with productivity. Knowing how important time is in this era, I need to squeeze out as much as I can.

So, I dug around under my piles of “stuff” and disposed a whole lotta things. Here’s BEFORE I started cleaning…

Before the big clean up!

Before the big clean up!

And from angle number #2…

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One minute later, and I’m DONE! Whoopeeee… that was easy.

1 minute later... :) it's all under the desk!

1 minute later... :) it's all under the desk!

Heheh, so when’s Clean Floor Day? :)

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Some 10 minutes later, I managed to file all my junk, dispose of excess paper in the recycling heap and actually be proud to say my desk is CLEAN. Well, for now anyway.

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Some say, a clean desk is the sign of a sick mind. Oh well, I guess I’ll try to be sick for a little while, anyway.

After I posted this blog post, good Twitter-mate @aprilyim posted her own #cleandesk contribution. If you look closely, you can see how hard she works (look at her notebook!).

#cleandesk contribution from @aprilyim

#cleandesk contribution from @aprilyim

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  • marsha said:

    sigh….which reminds me…..my own clutter!

  • Clean Desk Day | Mark Leo.Net said:

    [...] tweeted about today being a clean desk day and after he has reminded us again today with a blog post about it, I figured to myself, why shouldn’t I clear my desk as well? I would pretty much say that my [...]

  • dragoncity said:

    huh.. my desk also have dead lizard too…

  • JamesTheWillWritingGuy said:

    Looks like quite a few ppl struggle to keep the desk clean. I used to think only ppl who handles lot’s of paper tend to have cluttered desk aka me, but looks like that’s a myth.

    That’s sound like a great title for a short video “Myth of the de-cluttered table”

    Anyhoo, some year back I met a guy, who really have a clean desk. Hats off. He the MD btw.

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