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

Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but it turns out most of us don't aspire to be godly.

We're happy just to be human and messy. In fact, Eden wrote in saying,

Every few weeks my coworkers and I decide,

we'll clean up after ourselves and keep our public space tidy.

Nothing changes.

We leave mugs in the break room,

and we just walk past leaving them there.

How can we start picking up after ourselves?

You know what the irony is here?

I'll bet your coworkers have kids at home.

I'll bet those kids have messy rooms, and I'll bet the parents yell and scream at the kids to clean their rooms.

Actually, that makes a lot of sense.

Their kids mess up their home, and they retaliate subconsciously by messing up the office.

The human brain is a wonderful thing for spreading misery far and wide.

It sounds like your whole office likes the idea of cleaning up. That makes things easier.

You can use your creativity to come up with several different ways to make that happen,

and then have the group choose which ways they want to adopt.

This being the workplace and most workplaces being ruled by fear, terror, and shame,

those are probably the first tools that we would reach for.

Agree to throw away any mug left unclean for more than a day.

Or label everyone's mug so you know who the culprits are and have a big wall of shame

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