Having a tidy desk not only indicates whether you are an organized person, it also affects your productivity. The relationship between order and mental well-being highlights the importance of maintaining order in the work environment to boost mental health and, with it, productivity. This balance makes your cognitive response more agile than a messy environment.
Order not only reduces stress, but also improves concentration and efficiency. However, it is essential to adapt the environment to the specific needs of each person. The concept of organization must respond to a balance between order and creativity to optimize the way in which each person processes their thoughts.
Your table is your reflectionPsychology studies at the University of Minnesota have shown that an orderly space contributes to mental clarity, reduces stress and improves mood, although a certain degree of disorder encourages creativity, but must always be maintained within that balance.
Research from the University of California has established that the relationship between the workspace and mental state is bidirectional. That is, a messy environment can increase stress levels, but, at the same time, people with high levels of cortisol (the stress hormone) or symptoms of depression tend to have difficulties in keeping their space tidy.
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Emotional impact of lack of order. Clutter not only affects your productivity by having to search for the document you are looking for in a mountain of papers every time, or having to waste several minutes looking for the stapler in the drawer every time you need it, but it also affects the mental state with which you face tasks.
Researchers at Princeton’s Neuroscience Institute found that people who work in a cluttered environment tend to experience a decreased ability to concentrate because the visual stimuli caused by the clutter added greater cognitive effort that reduced mental processing capacity. A clutter-free environment reduces these visual stimuli, making it easier for the brain to focus on the task and not on the environment.
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A habit at the beginning of the dayJust as there are certain habits or actions that indicate to the brain that the work day is over, we can also adopt others to prepare it to start the day and encourage states of concentration.
Tidying up your workspace before starting your day can act as an activator of that “monk mode” that predisposes you to the right state of mind to start the day and lighten the mental load caused by clutter. In fact, you would be starting the day by completing the first task, which already motivates you to tackle the next one.
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