.Dust

I’m well impressed by col­leagues, friends, peo­ple that find every­thing they stored, or received, or buy, or place some­where at home, or in a folder…It derives from my untidi­ness, it’s not a fault but it’s like a trade­mark of my life, I can remem­ber of a bulk of trousers and t-​shirts over my bed (and mother’s shout), or piles of books over my desk, or min­utes and min­utes spent brows­ing into my “C:” space, look­ing for that spe­cial file that wasn’t in the right folder…
Have you ever seen noth­ing like this? As a con­se­quence, I adore all the tools that could help me in putting every­thing in the right place or, bet­ter, to find out what I’m look­ing for. In my life, the best tool I choose is my wife, in order to par­tially solve the “messy room” prob­lem (don’t worry; I love her and she knows the sit­u­a­tion very well!). In my pro­fes­sional life I devel­oped some strate­gies to limit the dis­or­der, but my lap­top was always out of con­trol. Like a LIFO stack, only daily or Very Impor­tant Things remained on the sur­face, and lay­ers and lay­ers of pdf and ppt and doc went to fill all of the spaces. I decide to fight against this, basi­cally for sur­viv­ing, and started to face the Evil, the Desk­top.
Fol­low­ing the sim­ple instruc­tions con­tained in this link, I col­lect some ideas to trans­form my Desk­top in an empty space, but full of sig­nif­i­cance. It’s not a con­tra­dic­tion, if you start with an empty desk­top, the empty space does not mean any­thing, but if you, until yes­ter­day, put every­thing you receive, down­load, see, take from the cam­era, etc. etc., on the desk­top, the empty space NOW means a lot. When I started this expe­ri­ence I was skep­tic, I sup­pose it was like hide dust under the car­pet, but after one month I’m sure it works, the desk­top is clean, the mind is clean too, and I started to find a place for most of the files I’m work­ing with. Are you mar­ried but the PC is still untidy? I sug­gest you to try.

Why do I blog this?
As usual, the post I wrote was another one…I wrote it on a piece of paper I found in the kitchen, maybe a not com­pleted shopping-​list, I’ve asked my wife about it and she started to shout about my untidiness…

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