Steveer Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is keeping your desk clean. The quick and dirty tip is to put everything in

arm's reach, possibly vertically. Jim wrote in, do you have any tips for keeping everything off the

desk and organized?

And once the desktop is clean, let's say through the use of a blowtorch,

how does one keep it clean and have more to review later than, say, ashes?

Desktops are the worst.

And it's not just physical desktops either.

My computer desktop also gets cluttered.

Whatever genius came up with the idea of having my computer mimic my office deserves a few

dozen lifetimes of being drenched in honey and tied to a stake over an ant-hill. Productivity tool,

excuse me? Giving me the convenience of having a computer as cluttered and chaotic as the rest of my

life is not a big plus in my book. But I digress. I've noticed that my desktops all gravitate to a

certain level of chaos. They start off clean, get cluttered very quickly, but then maintain about

the same level of chaos going forward. This is good news.

It tells me that once there's clutter around, I must actually be not letting more accumulate.

So I must have the skill to deal with stuff buried somewhere deep inside my psyche. Otherwise,

the mess would have punched through the ceiling by now, and it hasn't. In fact,

if I stand on my tiptoes, it's barely over my head. Looking closely, here's what happens.

The desk starts pristine and beautiful. Then something happens. Maybe some mail arrives,

or I need to find a citation in my collection of extremely rare Marilyn Monroe Bugs Bunny

Romance novels. I put the stuff on the desktop until I deal with them, and sometimes I do deal

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