Desk Mess

My messy desk!

My messy office/desk area!

First, I clean off the top of all its clutter, dusted, wiped and put only items I want there!

The fronts are now stripped of their graffiti and paper clutter!  Sadly, I have not got to the insides, YET!

My much better looking and functioning desk area!

So now you see the area I call home when surfing the net, paying bills, filing and so on.  Can you see how I have come to such a state I could not function efficiently anymore?  Yeah, me too!  I still have the insides of the cabinet to do and the insides of my desk, but progress continues!  Baby steps!

So now begins the phase of rebuilding from the chaos here.  I have assembled binders for my important documents, my Master Gardeners Programs, my Medical Coding binders, etc.  Now I need probably about 2 hours to clean out the inside and restore order, so that all my needed info is at my finger tips and easily accessible!

If you look closely, you will also see 3 drawers on the hutch and they are full of various junk too!  So my plan is to give this valuable real estate good use.  That is still a work in progress.  I am thinking my small note pads (always looking for one!), pens and pencils maybe?  They are nice sized drawers, but shallow, so they do not hold a ton, but for making my life easier, I'm thinking that would work!

I shall ponder that for a bit and come up with a working solution for my problem area!

But for now, it is giving me a break from the last piles of papers and junk I have been going through.  For some reason, I have stalled and become resistant to continuing, except on a very limited basis.  I think I pushed through a little too hard, and too long and have just burned out to it!  Plus, we have had some serious medical things happening with some family members and I have devoted only 15 minutes each day and no more!

One of my foster children delivered her second child, a bouncing baby 9lbs 10 oz 21 inch boy!  And my brother was in the hospital ER with what he suspected was a stroke, but turned out to be Bells Palsy.  Just my lame excuses, but hey!  I'm still doing my 15 minutes!  All are doing fine, thank goodness! 

So anybody have any ideas to help me here?  Any thoughts?  Ideas?  Strategies?