Uncomplicated Ways to Organize Your Home Office

If you take a look at your home office, you may find old coffee mugs, files that you keep forgetting to put away, software boxes, bills, and discarded pens, and more. As your things gather and pile up around you, it may get more difficult to find the items you really need. So, don’t wait until it's too late–organise your home office now! Here are some uncomplicated ways to organize your home office:

Discard Three Items

Let's start with something simple in order to stimulate you and clear some space. There are almost certainly more than three objects on your desk or spread across your home office that can be thrown or repurposed. Because of this, let’s do the “Marie Kondo Way” and learn how to fill up that garbage can.

Take note and ask yourself the following questions:

• Is this genuinely necessary to my work? 
• Does this give me delight?
• Can this add value to my life?

If the answer is “no” for at least two of these questions, it might be time to get rid of the item.

Throw Out a Single Filing Cabinet

The majority of home offices include filing cabinets, which is surprising considering our conception of filing cabinets as clutter solutions. In actuality, we pack them with items that don't belong anywhere and paperwork that we don't need but don't want to throw away. As a result, our filing cabinet functions as our own garbage, which we just replace.

It's like going through an ancient dig with years of accumulated artifacts to sort through. Start slowly and organize your home office by going through one drawer at a time and getting rid of anything that is no longer needed. Additionally, it might be helpful to keep business records for a minimum of six years. 

Clean Up Your Bulletin Board

Message boards or bulletin boards are common in many home workplaces. Regrettably, instead of keeping us informed and structured, they typically degrade into cluttered time capsules.

Keep the goal of home office organizing in mind. We're not just decluttering; we're also establishing a productive work atmosphere. While images of your children and family are okay around the house, they should not be exhibited in your home office. Take them out and reposition them. Then, clear the board of any previous messages.

Reassemble Your Desk Drawer

In a home office, drawers serve as dumping grounds. You will realize this once you take everything out of a single desk drawer.

Sort through the stuff, and toss out the unneeded and relocate the misplaced. Then, reassemble the drawer by using the various portions of the organizer tray to keep goods divided and easily accessible.

Commit to a Weekly Office Decluttering

Gather a large cardboard box (or two). Except for your computer and phone, everything on your desk should be removed and placed inside the designated box. If you need something that isn't on your desk right now, take it out of the box and put it on or near your desk.

By the end of the week, you'll have everything you need on your desk or nearby to work efficiently. What's left in the box should be filed correctly if necessary, or discarded if it's just taking up space on your desk. Yes, do this routinely (at least once a week).

Conclusion

Now, was that really so hard? When it comes to organising your office space, you must treat it as a therapeutic activity more than a chore. This way, it will be easier for you to make this a habit. As you learn to organise, you will also become more productive in the long run!