If you work from home, your office desk may be hindering your productivity. Have you ever entered your office to find it in disarray? Or maybe you have spilled coffee or tea all over your desk?

That’s a case of having to get your home office desk organized urgently so you can get your work done.

But why wait until you spill coffee or soda all over your work?

Your Organized Home Office Desk Helps Increase Your Productivity

How you wonder? According to Forbes, the typical executive today wastes almost one month a year searching for lost information.

Imagine a whole month looking for something that if you were organized you would have saved that much time?

What would you do with a months’ time? You could actually take a vacation! Or work more and make more money and still take a 2-week vacation. Imagine that?

How to Get Your Home Office Desk Organized

• Take everything off your desk and dust it. Make it shine.
• Next only put your laptop on the desk.
• Then add items like a pen and pad near your dominant hand. If you have several pens/pencils, put them in a container and leave just one on the desk. This helps you focus more on one thing and not multi-task.
• Only keep what you need on your desk. Anything that you reach out for often or have to leave your desk for.
• Keep some open space, it helps your mind wander and be more creative. Creativity for running a business is important as you need to make changes and pivot for your success.
• Do not keep a pile of paper on your desk. Only the important few pieces.
• Next, make sure your laptop desktop itself is not cluttered.
• Keep a to-do list and schedule nearby on your office desk.
• Hang some inspirational quotes or photos on the wall of your home office.

Why Declutter?

By decluttering your office desk space, you feel better. When you feel better, you can work better and be more productive and creative.

Also start decluttering the other spaces around your home office desk. For example, drawers and shelves. Keep them simple and clean.

Next time when you enter into your office home space you will feel refreshed and ready to begin working. You won’t be thinking about all the stuff you have to clean as you work from home.  

Organize the Rest of the Office

Now that you have your office desk organized, you can move on to the other areas of your room. Whether it be in the drawers or other pieces of furniture keep things to a minimum.

You may be surprised to see how much stuff you kept, that you didn’t really need.  Maybe you can move some of your unneeded documents to a zip drive.

Anything to save on paper and clutter on the actual office desk and make you more productive.

Make it Your Own Space

Style your home office to your own flavor. Many may love the man-cave look for their offices and others want a more feminine touch. Whatever style makes you happy and feel good, is the style you will want to go with. Use your favorite colors for the paint, rugs, or furnishings in your home office.

Of course, feeling comfortable in your own home office will help you be more productive each and every day.

If you work off your dining room table, you may be easily distracted. You may also spend more time looking for things you need to get the tasks at hand done.

Working from a Clean Home Office Space

Now that your office is all cleaned up you will feel ready to tackle anything that comes your way. You will be able to find things quicker and get more done.

You may even be inclined to do other areas of your home to make the rest of your life more pleasant and stress-free. Having clutter can be a stressor for many people.

The less clutter you have, the fewer decisions you have to make, the less you have to look for stuff, and the less overall stressed you will feel.

You will be able to live more productively, happy, and be more successful in your business.

Guest Author Lisa Sicard
Lisa loves helping others to thrive online through Social Media, Blogging, and SEO. What good is knowledge if you cannot share it with others? She has 30+ years of experience in marketing/advertising with 9 years of experience in content marketing, social media, blogging, and SEO. Check out her latest eBook “How to Tweet and Thrive on Twitter” now on Amazon.