How to organize your life with a computer
It contributes to that feeling of “drowning” we’re all too familiar with.Īnd then, it hurts even more to open your computer and see your desktop swamped with random files and folders strewn about. In a work life that’s likely already a bit chaotic, all of that physical piling up around you can start to feel a little bit overwhelming. And the only waste you’re really producing is a pot of old pasta water and an empty Doritos bag, right? But that cycle can only repeat so many times before you notice the garbage can and the dishes in the sink and the laundry hamper all starting to overflow – always at the same time, it feels like. It seems relatively harmless and low impact the first few times you do it – you deserve a break after all, darn it, and if you only have an hour you’re going to spend it how you want. You get into a rhythm of coming home, sleepwalking through making food (or settle for opening a bag of chips – so much quicker), sitting on the couch staring into space for an hour, then going to bed. More often, it’s a week or two or three in a row of working late, maybe missing some weekends – that unending march of working and working that every week you tell yourself will “be over next week.” Something unexpected happens at work that forces you to have to pivot or take on more responsibility or work more hours. We’ve all gone through periods of time in our work lives where everything felt like it was accelerating.ĭeadlines get changed or moved up with no notice, or The Big Presentation is suddenly happening next week.