Is your desk sloppy or streamlined? Messy or immaculate? Consider whether one of these three desk descriptions fits you.
Desk #1
Topsy-turvy and turbulent
The top of your desk is piled high with magazines, unopened mail and bills. If someone wants you to see something, they leave it on your chair. Eventually you’ll feel it when you sit [...]

Organizing gurus who try to make you feel bad for not having a perfectly organized home office need to back off.  Organization is a personal thing.  No two people organize their home office the same way. So if you’re frustrated that you can’t keep your home office organized, stop blaming yourself. It’s not your fault. [...]

In “What’s your working style,” I described how everyone works differently and falls into one of five working styles, depending on the time of day and the activity. There are two more work styles for you to consider:
The Do-It-All never has and never will feel comfortable delegating. While someone else could handle routine sales [...]

I credit my older sister for putting me over the organizing edge. When we were younger and shared a room, her side was a pit and mine was obsessively neat (but I’ve mellowed a bit). Even though my sister’s still disorganized—she’s fine with it—she knows it’s possible for anyone to get organized. [...]

Over the years, I’ve seen home offices that were disaster areas and others that needed only a bit of fine-tuning. What the owners of these home offices had in common was that they were fighting their natural working styles. Everyone works differently and falls into one of five working styles, depending upon the time of [...]