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How To Minimalize Your Office

August 20, 2015

Here’s my minimalist office:

It consists of:

  • Laptop
  • Laptop table with wireless keyboard and mouse (a chiropractor told me I needed to get my screen up at eye level)
  • High speed modem (fiber optic!)
  • Printer/scanner/copier (for a long time I got by with going to the library to print, but it happens frequently enough, and printers are so cheap, that I bought one last year)

It doesn’t consist of:

  • Phone (I very rarely use a phone – mobile or landline)
  • Desk (I use the coffee table)
  • Chair (I sit on a pillow on the floor, or stand)
  • Filing cabinets (almost everything is digital – when I get paper, I scan it into digital)
  • Papers all over the place (see above)
  • Fax machine (some of you are too young to remember what this is)

Now, I understand not everyone can get away with this and not everyone wants to, but I think we can agree that many of us would benefit from decluttering our office to some degree.

I recommend scheduling 30 minutes every single week (Monday morning is good) to get the office back to tidy.

You’ll get more done and your stress will go down at least 7 points.

If you really want to make this happen, schedule it in your calendar… right… now :)

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