Posted by Dave Lorenzo - Business Coach

According to FORTUNE, those of you with messy desks might want to tidy them up!

“‘Your office is a reflection of your capabilities,’ Reiter says. ‘Even though a messy desk isn’t a sign of a character flaw, it does tend to give your managers and peers the impression that the job is too much for you to handle, you can’t make decisions, you are not doing the job, or all of the above.’”

For myself, I find that a clean work space fosters clear, focused thinking. Only matters of top and immediate priority occupy the space on my desk—everything else is sorted by priority level elsewhere. Just as having too many goals means you aren’t likely to accomplish any of that, having too many stacks of paper reduces the chances that any of them will grab enough of your attention to earn a quality treatment.

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