Cleaning & Clearing Your Home Office In Order To Better Focus In The New Year

Hello, writers! Happy New Year!

Maybe you have already cleared the decks in anticipation of being more productive in January. But if you have not, you are in luck, because this week feels perfect for cleaning your digital house and setting yourself up for more streamlined success in the New Year.

We’ll talk about what to add in the next post, but first, clear the clutter both actual and digital!

Keep a to-do list handy as you work through these steps because insights and desires will come to you, and you may wish to put these into a list.

Step One: Streamline Your Email Subscriptions

Step Two: Respond To All Social Media Requests & Delete Spammers

Step Three: Quickly Go Through Your Office & Pull Useless Items

Step Four: Take Down Dated Inspiration

Step Five: Put Away Last Year’s Tax Materials

Step Six: Clean Off Your Desk

Each of these steps takes time. But rather than feeling impatient, pay attention to how you feel as you perform each task.

Lessons come from doing. Lessons do not come from planning to do. Lessons do not come from daydreaming about doing. The only way to learn lessons about you and your career is to actually engage with your process and pay attention to what you notice.

Information is just waiting to bubble up as you dive into your office and start tidying and sorting. If you want your writing space to work for you and to inspire you, you must take charge of it.

By the time you are done, your office and your computer should feel like a breath of fresh air.

In the comments, feel free to share about how and where you get stuck in de-cluttering your literal and work spaces. I’d love to hear if you enjoy this process or dislike it.

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