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	10 tips for keeping your desk clean and tidy

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8-25-2006 4:31 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3b9733cc-67dc-4c37-adb4-68bb5ace3033/3D9B5742-5C61-4E8B-94EB-CF4A771EC590/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/08/21/10-tips-for-keeping-your-desk-clean-and-tidy/" href="http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/08/21/10-tips-for-keeping-your-desk-clean-and-tidy/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.lifeclever.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/08/21/10-tips-for-keeping-your-desk-clean-and-tidy/"><H1 class='storytitle'><a href="http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/08/21/10-tips-for-keeping-your-desk-clean-and-tidy/" rel="bookmark">10 tips for keeping your desk clean and tidy</a></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/08/21/10-tips-for-keeping-your-desk-clean-and-tidy/"><P>A messy desk is a sign of creativity and imagination. This is the excuse I gave myself for the mountain of papers, knickknacks, and San Pellegrino bottles normally piled on my desk at work. Truth is, I’m just lazy. When I started wasting more and more time looking for lost items instead of being a brilliant creative person, I knew I had to do something. I got my desk organized, and have been miraculously keeping it clean for the past three months. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/08/21/10-tips-for-keeping-your-desk-clean-and-tidy/"><H2 class='date'>August 21, 2006 by Chanpory  </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/08/21/10-tips-for-keeping-your-desk-clean-and-tidy/"><P>Here’s how:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/08/21/10-tips-for-keeping-your-desk-clean-and-tidy/"><H2><a id="more-164"></a>1. Use a system to manage paper</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/08/21/10-tips-for-keeping-your-desk-clean-and-tidy/"><P><strong>Setup: A place for everything</strong>
First, you’ll need a few items:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/08/21/10-tips-for-keeping-your-desk-clean-and-tidy/"><P>Most of the clutter on my desk is paper. In a <a href="http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/07/24/how-to-organize-your-cluttered-desktop-and-regain-your-sanity/" title="How to organize your cluttered desktop and regain your sanity">recent post</a>, I wrote about a system for organizing files on the computer. The same system can be modified to work with physical files:</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3D9B5742-5C61-4E8B-94EB-CF4A771EC590/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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