No, this isn’t political… sorry to disappoint 
This is just some rambling because I’m bored.
I work from home. When we moved from California to Georgia, one of the requirements I set for the house we’d get was that I needed a home office. We bought a nice house that had a room perfect for my office. When we moved in, I didn’t have any office furniture so I stuck all my stuff on some folding tables, threw my boxes in the corner and immediately started a bad habit of having the messiest room in the house. It was horrible.
Eventually my wife convinced me to buy some nice office furniture. So I picked up a really nice desk and a set of matching bookshelves. Wonderfully masculine looking wooden furniture. So I cleaned up, setup up the furniture and enjoyed the new digs. But quickly the room returned to it’s cluttered state, but with nice furniture.
Then I took a trip to California. Upon returning my office was clean! My wife had cleaned it, organized it and decorated it! She painted the office red, which had been my request, and found some nice draperies. I loved it! I had the best room in the house… which I then proceeded to turn back into the messiest.
Then a friend of ours from Vegas came out to visit. We needed a place for her to sleep, so I cleaned up the office. Then she left, and the return of the messy room arrived.
Do you notice a pattern yet?
Just yesterday a friend of mine came over to pick up some flyers I had created for him. I knew we’d talk for a few minutes so I scrambled to clean up my office. It’s truly embarrassing letting people see something like that.
So today I continued the cleanup. There’s a little left to do, but the office looks good again and once I pack up a few things more, it’ll look great!
I put all this down to virtual paper as a record for myself, and to note that I love it when things are clean around me. It makes me feel better. I want to be in that office now, where recently I had wanted to avoid it, and dreading work. It truly goes to show that your environment can affect your mood.
So I resolve to keep it clean. I work better, am happier, and am proud to have people view my “man-cave” when it’s clean. I’m sure it makes my wife happier too.
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