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Are you always looking for something you just know you left somewhere on your desk? Does your workspace look more like a pile of papers and random stuff than a clear, clean place where things happen? Are you finding it difficult to get things done? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be suffering from "organiziety,” the anxiety you feel when you are unorganized. In order to cure yourself, you must take charge of your life and your stuff, and the first place to do that is at your desk. The desk is the command center of your life. It's the hub where most of your information comes in and goes out. If your command center is cluttered, you can't run the operations that are your life. The top of your desk is some of the most valuable real estate in your office. How you arrange your work tools here can make the difference in how productive you are.

Luckily there are ways to get your desk/ workspace functioning smoothly. First you must go through everything on your desk (annoying) and give each item a home. It may be a file in a file drawer, it may be a bill that needs to be paid and sent out, it may be garbage (if it's paper, put it in the recycle bin). The major task is figuring out where to put all the other stuff. No desktop is really big enough to contain all the bits and bobs that we need at our fingertips to get work done. They need to be put away in an organized fashion. And you can't keep your mind clear to think when all that stuff is cluttering your visual space as well. So where do you keep your stamps? Where does the stationery go? And what about the incoming bills, where to put them so they don't go unpaid?

Here to save the day… dumptity dum… the desktop organizer. These organizational systems come in a wide range of sizes and configurations, so the first thing you need to do when considering a desktop organizer is to ask yourself some basic questions: How much storage do you need? How much surface space do you have to utilize? And, of course, you should determine the aesthetic of your workspace so you pick a piece that will look good, because with your new streamlined and productive space, you will be looking at it a lot.