What About Slob?

Have you ever known the emotional high of a newly cleaned space?

I am not going all Danny Tanner on you, don’t worry. I mean it is really only those who have messy inclinations who can truly appreciate how nice a neat work space is because more often that not that is not the state of affairs.

We have gone over this before, as a great French philosopher once said “Je suis une slob.”. I am not organized, I care more about having pretty colored folders than where exactly they are or what is in them, if something sits on my desk for more than an hour it is dubious whether it will ever be located again, and so on. I try to be better, REALLY I do. But it’s just easier more often than not to make piles of things ON my desk than to locate the appropriate place for them IN my desk.

But this morning, I decided enough was enough.

Rolls of plans from projects long since passed were thrown out. I unearthed some wire organizational thingies and organized my piles of papers into them, I took everything off my desk and WIPED IT DOWN WITH DESK CLEANER. I even emptied out my recycling bin and broke down all the boxes I have been storing in my office with the intent of using them for shipping when in reality I never need to ship anything that big I was just putting off having to break down the boxes. (I REALLY hate breaking down boxes). Or maybe I was saving them up to build a Nap Fort. Either way, they are now gone.

I even reorganized the shelves right outside my office that are not TECHNICALLY mine but I use them to store things I don’t know what else to do with.

And you know, I feel GREAT! My office looks amazing. I know where everything is. Everything is neat and organized. I want someone to walk by and ask "Hey where is such and such file?" so I can be like "WELL here it is right here where I knew it would be, (next to my Jade Plant that I forgot I even had and finally watered his morning but that is neither here nor there)".

All I need know is a vase full of flowers from the local market and it will feel like a whole new office.

I tell you, it is worth it to be a slob just to experience how good it feels when everything is finally clean and organized.