Some people say that what determines the direction of a person's fate is the environment and the pattern, and the environment can be divided into large environments and small environments.
The general environment involves historical development stages and industrial changes, and most people can only look for opportunities in the general environment, but cannot influence the general environment.
The small environment is different, it is a part that everyone can control and create by themselves.
From your house and yard to a bedroom and a desktop, the small environment affects your quality of life and reflects your inner order.
British health care system experts have pointed out that people with well-organized desktops are more likely to win in the workplace.
A messy desktop is not only easy to distract and confused, but also may reduce a person's requirements for work.
The environment can be chaotic, work can be coped with, the lack of orderly, excellence mentality, accumulated over time, the impact is a person's future.
Look at a person's personality and work attitude, in fact, just look at how he shapes his own small environment, you can understand a lot.
"My Erben Students" talks about Longdong Village, an urban village in Guangzhou, where house rents are low, prices are low, and there are many schools nearby, and many Erben students live here as their first stop after graduation.
The environment of the urban village is complex, and the young people in the rental houses come and go, and few people will take care of the houses rented here seriously.
Unlike the student Wei Fu, his small room was made warm, exquisite, and tidy, which was an outlier compared to the rough and chaotic environment around him.
Every student who graduated and came to Longdong Village would be told to go to see Wei Fu's room first.
The room has no open windows and balconies, which seems depressing and cramped, but WeiFu uses decent and casual storage to clean up this confined space properly and comfortably.
He retrieved the template discarded by the landlord and built himself a small wine cabinet; two ordinary plastic stools with a piece of glass on it, and then a fresh tablecloth, and built himself a desk; he also made himself a bar and a washstand; every piece of clothing was neatly arranged on a wooden pole...
He took the subway to work in the city center every day, but no matter how hard he worked, after a busy day, he returned to this nest and he had a space that could make him comfortable.
"Thirteen Invitations" filmed his room, Xu Zhiyuan said: "In contrast to the disorderly and perfunctory composition of the urban village, the hand of a boy has thus realized the practice and understanding of beauty." ”
In the face of fierce competition, high housing prices and other environments, what Weifu can do is to do its own work step by step and take care of its own small environment.
In the TV series "Old Girlfriend", Irene saw the sister Song Teacher piled up into a mountain of objects that were not usually needed, proposed a solution, and broke away.
Looking at the waste clothes disguised into three large bags, many netizens said: "It's too real, the whole holiday is urging parents to break up." ”
Pack away or donate the old things that have been sucking up dust in the corner for many years, and the home and mood are refreshed. The first thing to do at work after the holiday is to tidy up your desk and make a fresh start to the New Year.
"Thrilling Work Finishing Magic" is a book specifically aimed at the office environment by Marie Kondo, and the author believes that the core of tidying up work is actually to make work more pleasant and efficient, so as to free up more time and energy for life, truly achieve a balance between work and life, and finally have a heartwarming life.
The goal of tidying up is to create an ideal working environment for yourself and achieve the best working state, so the first step in tidying up is to imagine what kind of environment you are working in, which can make you feel excited and fall in love with work.
A customer who works for a medical supplies manufacturing company describes his ideal day this way:
With only the phone and potted plants left on my desk, I took my laptop and power cord from the designated position on the shelf, turned on the computer, put the coffee I bought on my way to work on my favorite coaster, sprayed some mint fragrance, took a deep breath, and got to work.
Everything has its place, no time to find it, and it only takes a second to put it back in its place after it is used.
The trick to "imagining your ideal working state" is to use vivid, vivid details to imagine what the day will look like after you've finished.
That picture consists of three elements: a tangible office environment, your actions, and your feelings.
Imagine what your office space would look like, such as a neat desk and where everything would be placed; what you would do in that place, including enjoying coffee or sniffing the fresh scent of it; and how you would feel when doing it, such as excitement, satisfaction, or contentment.
When we imagine every detail, specific to the physical reactions brought about by emotions, rather than just objectively examining them, our ideal state of work will jump out. It will also make you more eager to reach that state and make you more motivated to make changes.
Whether you're working at your desk or owning your own cubicle or office, the basic steps for decluttering are the same.
Advance in the order of books, documents, miscellaneous items, and souvenirs, starting with the simplest categories and gradually moving on to the most difficult categories.
Take out all the items in each category or subcategory and stack them together in a centralized manner, organizing only one category at a time.
For example, to sort out the "pens" in miscellaneous items, take out all the pens from the drawer and pen holder, put them on the desktop, choose the pen you want to keep, give it to colleagues or throw it away if you don't need it, in short, you have to deal with it immediately.
The most common situation encountered in office tidying up is the same as at home, even if it is very hard to organize, and soon after the documents will pile up and the environment will be beaten back to its original shape.
To avoid this, the authors propose three principles.
The first is to classify the documents in detail, you can sort them by date, project, customer, or you can have your own rules, the principle is not to keep any piece of paper for no reason.
Second, store the documents upright.
If you pile them all on the table, you will not be able to figure out how many documents you have, and the files pressed under the bottom are often not found, and the way of upright storage will make the number of files clear at a glance, look refreshing and tidy.
Finally, set up a basket of to-do documents to put only the documents that need to be processed on the day.
After the pending documents have been processed, all the files that do not need to be retained are shredded.
In addition, you can also do some small things in your office space that can bring joy, such as determining a main color, making the colors of all the items on the desktop harmonious and unified, choosing your favorite movie or story, decorating your office space with this theme, changing the screen wallpaper of the computer according to the seasons, and so on.
People who pay attention to small things are more likely to succeed in big things.
Tidying up isn't just about sorting things and discarding them, it's a big project that can revolutionize your life.
Having a neat desk requires you to talk to yourself, figure out what you're working for, discover your value, and find the state you want to work.
And this process will let you understand that everything you do now is closely linked to a better future.
Author | Kale, write other people's stories well, live your own life.
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