All Hail the Mess-iahs

A big thanks goes out to Francis for sending this to me:  Messy is the New Neat

The gift came via Instant Message with a comment along the lines of, "Since you're such a neat freak I thought you should loosen up a bit. BWAHAHAHAHAHA."

You'd have to see my office and desk to see the humor in this.  In fact, you should see my computer's desktop.  The Internal Computing guys begin to tremble when they see all that I have there.  Usually they make some comment like, "Holy Moses, look at that desktop." It took me a while to discern that shock, not awe was the emotion behind their reactions.

Anyway, the article vindicates me.  Moderate messiness is not bad (hey--who says I'm not "moderately messy.")  My moderate may be your extreme, but then maybe you're too neat, eh?

Take a deep breath and repeat after me:

Make peace with your clutter...

Be sloppier with your schedule...

Forget filing...

You, too, can be as happy and as healthy as I am.  Okay, my healthy is your sick, whatever...

Thanks, Miss Francis. You made my day.

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Comments

[Gin]

According to one study, people with messy desks are 37% more productive than those with immaculate desks and perfectly filed papers.

[Jerilyn Dufresne]

All I can say is YAY!