Piles On My Desk

Sometimes, to get the tidy result, a mess must first be made.

Do you know what I mean? Empty the garage so you can sweep it out and organize; pile everything from the fridge all over the counters so you can scrub and clean and put back the good stuff.

I do it weekly at my bookkeeping job at church. Once I have pulled out all of my mail and inbox work and start establishing piles, it looks like I have absolutely no organization:

But truly, there is a method to my madness. I just keep whittling away at the piles until everything is printed, signed, mailed, communicated, reconciled, and filed. And when my desk looks like this:

I go home!