Is your desk filled with piles of papers?
Is your desktop jammed with endless folders? Is your email inbox overflowing?
All that clutter and chaos can cause you to work less optimally and decrease your creativity.
Research suggests that you’d be better keeping things tidy as you go or cleaning up after you finish. Streamlining is an essential process for maintaining satisfaction at work, while also benefitting your physical health and cognitive abilities.
So, file that paper after you’re done with it, organize your desktop, and go through (answer or set a flag and file) your inbox until it’s emptied …
If you can’t stop …ask yourself why you feel the need to keep everything out.