I Don’t Work in a Museum ⇥

How tightly organized should I be? Enough to pass a white glove test? No. That’s not going to happen, and imposing that ideal on myself is actually counter-productive. So, I stay organized enough to achieve my goals.

I’m similar, but I clean on a constant basis. At the end of the day, it looks like I’ve accomplished barely anything, but I know that the work I’ve produced has been carefully filed away.

It’s interesting to see how others work. I fall into the clean-workspace-clean-mind kind of flow. There’s nothing wrong with a messy desk, but if I see receipts from years ago, I start to get twitchy. That’s not right.