Rearrange the Office
I'm rearranging my office at the church. My desk and my computer table had been set back-to-back so I could look straight out my door, to see who's coming into the outer office, and those walking by could see me. I like that. But now, because of cabling requirements for new stuff!, I'm moving the computer station to a spot where I can't see or be seen.
It's actually a better spot for lighting. And I look up & see different pictures on the wall - my favorite Dilbert cartoon, among others.
I've said before that our attics & basements are like our subconscious self; all the baggage we tote and can't or won't get rid of, we cache there, where it's in our way, and affects our lives, but isn't in our attention.
Well, my office has been a place of great clutter for a couple years (family will say, "TEN!"). And maybe that's a mirror of a cluttered conscious self. Yet it's in rearranging that I become aware of the clutter in a new way, the boxes of stuff I'll get around to dealing with one of these times.
*btw: the new stuff! is the new, cheaper copier in the outer office, which for no extra cost to us except my USB cable, can do duty as a duplexing laser printer for my computer (and if I had a NIC, we could even use it as a scanner). I don't expect I'll use it all that much, but there are times when I waste a heckofa lot of time trying to get a booklet format document printed right, and this'd be so automatic.
It's actually a better spot for lighting. And I look up & see different pictures on the wall - my favorite Dilbert cartoon, among others.
I've said before that our attics & basements are like our subconscious self; all the baggage we tote and can't or won't get rid of, we cache there, where it's in our way, and affects our lives, but isn't in our attention.
Well, my office has been a place of great clutter for a couple years (family will say, "TEN!"). And maybe that's a mirror of a cluttered conscious self. Yet it's in rearranging that I become aware of the clutter in a new way, the boxes of stuff I'll get around to dealing with one of these times.
*btw: the new stuff! is the new, cheaper copier in the outer office, which for no extra cost to us except my USB cable, can do duty as a duplexing laser printer for my computer (and if I had a NIC, we could even use it as a scanner). I don't expect I'll use it all that much, but there are times when I waste a heckofa lot of time trying to get a booklet format document printed right, and this'd be so automatic.