This is my office right now:<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t look organized, but it is. It\u2019s organized two ways, and one is more effective than the other.<\/p>\n
You see, the (1) clutter<\/em><\/strong> demands attention and for good reason: It\u2019s important. Stuff I have to do. Stuff that, if I file it neatly away in the (2) three-ring to-do binder<\/em><\/strong> buried underneath all that mess, I will forget about and never do and screw up my life.<\/p>\n The goal is to not screw up my life.<\/p>\n But what about filing? you ask. Eh. Filing is for stuff you have to keep but rarely use: tax returns, vendor catalogs, vehicle and health and vet information. Stuff like that. If I had my \u2019druthers, I\u2019d be able to stick it all in a file box<\/em><\/strong> like the one I keep my year\u2019s tax receipts in after I\u2019ve entered the bucket<\/em><\/strong> full of receipts into Quicken.<\/p>\n What about tossing? you ask. Yeah, what you\u2019re looking at is after having ruthlessly tossed and shredded. Trust me, I get rid of whatever I can the minute I lay hands on it and determine it\u2019s worthless to me.<\/p>\n So after ruthlessly tossing-and-shredding, and piling things on my desk in a way that will remind me of its importance, the best way I\u2019ve discovered to not screw up my life and still stay clutter-free is to hang all the important stuff up on the wall.<\/p>\n This demands cork. Or steel\/whiteboards magnets. Something. Just get it off my effing desk! I want elbow room and work space. Throw in some effective cord management.<\/p>\n Stylishly.<\/p>\n I want style.<\/p>\n Because there is no style here. I can stick pins in the sheetrock all day long and it\u2019ll do the trick, but I want some style. Martha Stewart Living<\/em> style. Only more realistic. And cheaper.<\/p>\n So what I\u2019m working on in my organizational efforts is to find a stylish way to hang all my stuff on the walls where I can see it at a glance without boxing myself into a stylish but useless and expensive space.<\/p>\n But I can\u2019t even decide on a paint color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is my office right now: It doesn\u2019t look organized, but it is. It\u2019s organized two ways, and one is more effective than the other. You see, the (1) clutter demands attention and for good reason: It\u2019s important. Stuff I have to do. Stuff that, if I file it neatly away in the (2) three-ring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[413],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-productivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16738,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033\/revisions\/16738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}