Zen in My New 2010 Clutter-free Home Office
I'm a productivity geek and I love tweaking my home office space. In the past three years I've moved three times and each time I had to build my home office from scratch and each time I learned something new.
I'm Michael Sliwinski and I'm an entrepreneur who's also the..... Founder of Nozbe.com - a time and project management web application
.. Editor of Productive! Magazine - a global PDF publication on productivity
.. and a blogger as well as a producer of a weekly 2-minute Productive! show.
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Yes TesTeq - changes changes changes - my wife got a new job and we simply moved. It wasn't easy but I really enjoy traveling and getting to know new places and people. We all work from home in my company so this new home office is the mission-critical place for me to do great work. Thanks for your comment and enjoy the snow! :-)
If you're tall and have long legs, then I suggest you put them more to the side or even further away. For me, this placement is OK and my knees aren't even remotely touching the cables which are totally out of sight for me :-) Thanks for your comment Lukasz!
Where did you buy this kid of document filling drawer? I've been looking for that kid for a while now..
Thanks, Robert.
Brooks Duncan, thanks for your heads up! Greatly appreciated!
Mike St Pierre, thanks for your comment and great you like my cable-management so much. I spent lots of time figuring this out, but it was totally worth it as the un-cluttered space is a joy to work.
great documentation about your workplace. Good for me to find someone else on the web with a dedication to a clean cabling on the desk (I documented this a time ago for my computer room http://pohle.de/rze). People should realize that a clean head for focused work starts with a clean desk first. Your desk gets a price for hiding all the cables. Even cooler would be someone who invents a system that replaces all these single power supplies with one...
I love the clean workspace you documented on your blog, Christian. Really, seriously a great job at managing those cables and so many computers. Congrats!
Maciej, I bought the boards at Ikea - they sell boards for tables as well as table-legs, so you can compile your tables in any way you like.
I agree with the notion of minimizing visual clutter. For me, visual clutter is the piles of papers, folders, etc. which are on my desk. Currently, I'm creating "back" office space for these materials - your blog post is good encouragement for me!
On the other hand, I take comfort from the simple brick and board book shelves on my desk (which is against a wall). The shelves hold, apart from my computer speakers, the books I am mostly likely to refer to, books which I am currently reading, and books I want to read. I love books, and having key books in front of me is, as I said, comforting.
But the papers, files, etc. are another story - the ones I'm not working with in the moment get in the way, lead to clutter, and decreased productivity.
Thank you for your excellent post.
Daly
Granut
Daly - didn't notice your comment earlier. Thanks and glad you like my "piece of office Zen" :-)
Thanks for the inspiration and awesome, genius, simple, and very affordable solution to deal with my cables. I greatly appreciate both you and Van who inspired you with this solution (http://www.decluttered.com/).
I Posted my pictures on my blog (http://www.willtoknow.com/my-ergonomic-and-healthy-workstation/) and will add more text later to give you a well deserved kudos and link back. I'll also add links to where I got the materials and few tips. Thanks again and good luck to all of you guys who try to declutter their work space. Go for it. It is well worth it.
