* Your desk is your work hub.

* Have separate cups or holders for pens and pencils … keep them there and not strewn about the desk and drawers.

* Mail baskets keep paper clutter from accumulating.

* Use a planner or a desk calendar (real or virtual) to keep lists and tasks organized.

* Do a daily 5 minute tidy up … throw out anything you don’t need and straighten out papers and put away anything that might have gathered itself on the desk during the day.

* Use “areas” on your desk, supply area for pens and paper, file area, mail sorting area, group like items together.

* If you don’t need it, toss it.

* Be creative, organization doesn’t have to be boring you can use creative and crafty ways to be more organized and even make new things to help consolidate the space on your desk.

* Identify the problem areas, everyone’s are different. Do you have piles of mail? Do people drop things off on your desk daily that just add to the clutter? Etc…

* Make use of what you have. Does your desk have pre-installed CD holders, use them. And you don’t have to put CDs in them, they’ll also hold post-it notepads and other items off the main part of the desk to give you more space.

* Contain it, baskets, cups, buckets, tins, jars, putting like object together in a container frees up loads of desk space.