If you work in an office you will necessarily need a desk to be able to carry out your daily work. A desk can have dust, stains, a crumbly keyboard, a cup of tea, water bottles, sticky notes... and without realizing it you may have a cluttered desk that brings stress and discomfort to your daily work. Your desk needs to be well ordered for your work to be magnificent.
Starting today, you will learn new tricks to make your desk a clean and tidy workplace, without papers or accessories that instead of making you feel good make you feel bad because it stresses you out. Don't miss any of the following tricks and if necessary, write them down to keep them present and that in this way little by little, you get better results in order on your desktop.
Keep old papers at bay
If you have old papers everywhere it is possible that you stress more than necessary. Seeing too much paper where it does not touch and on top of it messy and obsolete, will only bring you discomfort. The best thing you can do to keep your desk tidy is to grab all those papers and shred or trash all those that really do not serve you. If there are any that you need to keep, put them in a folder that is intended for these papers that you want to keep.
But to avoid that they accumulate nonsense, once a month it will be a good idea that you review all the papers you have and get rid of those that are totally expendable.
Pencil marks
If you use pencils daily in your workday, no matter what you use it for, it is likely that over time and without realizing it you will find that there are pencil marks everywhere on your desk. Rye bread effectively cleans the pencil on your desk, but rye bread is better eaten than wasted to clean ... so you might as well use a soap and water solution to clean stains and then dry with a soft, dry cloth.
Dusting
Dust accumulates on the desk table from daily work and the little time you have had to clean it, but the reality is that you need to clean it every day to prevent dirt from accumulating and mites living with you in your work hours. It is as easy as cleaning the areas of your desk and your accessories with a clean cloth dampened with a solution of vinegar and water, so you will be at the same time disinfecting any surface.
Do not spray the liquid directly on the elements, it is better to wet the cloth with the solution and clean it carefully. You need to spend two minutes every day cleaning your desk area of dust so that in addition to being tidy, it is also clean and disinfected naturally and without the use of chemicals.
Bad smells
Sometimes there may be a bad smell in your office or office that you cannot get rid of no matter how many windows you open. If your office has a strange smell that you do not know where it comes from, you should check each place in your office until you find the source of the smell and thus be able to treat it directly. But to prevent bad odors, the ideal is to have the room well ventilated, the bin with a new bag every day and the floor and desk well cleaned all the time.
Get rid of unnecessary things from your desk
Sometimes we accumulate more things than the account on the desk thinking that we decorate it or that they are useful to us, when the reality is that there comes a time when they only hinder us. You may think that all those ornaments show that you are fun, although the reality is that what they show is that you do not know how to prioritize the important items on your desk. Throw away everything you have on your desk that is not necessary for your daily work or store it in a place that does not disturb your activity.
Hide the cables
There is nothing worse on a work desk than seeing cables everywhere. Although the reality is that cables are necessary to be able to use the technology on a daily basis, what is not necessary is having to suffer its horrible aesthetics with the cables in any way. So try not to see them hiding or holding them with clever solutions.
Order has a lot to do with aestheticsSo don't let poorly arranged cables make your desk look like it's in poor condition.
Keep your computer screen clean
Your computer monitor cannot be dirty, so you will need to use a dry, soft, lint-free cloth. The best solution is to use a mild soap and water solution if necessary, but never clean an LCD screen with commercial glass cleaners because they contain ammonia, acetone, ethyl alcohol, and other substances that could cause serious damage to your computer screen and even damage it forever.
You can even choose to clean it with a commercial solution that is exclusively designed for LCD screens, this will ensure that the product you use is the right one for your computer screen and that you will not damage it in any way.
Pen drives in order
When you work on computers or on projects, it usually happens that you have pen drives or external memories everywhere, the files are saved in each one and then you do not know where the information is. It is best to have a single external hard drive for everything, make it easy to store and that you can take with you everywhere.
Order and productivity
One last tip that is sure to come in handy is to be productive and at the same time orderly. To do this, you will only have to take into account that the files you use the most will be those that you should have closest to and those that you use the least, save them in places further away from you.