Environment, really local

Marshall McLuhan, the 60's media guru had a principle that modern business and hospital research confirms. First, you create an environment, and then the environment creates you.
Look around your office/home/car. It reflects you, of course, but it also creates you. For example, every file that needs attention --filing, answering, filling, reworking-- is a not only a drain on your energy, it also functions as your mother or father or teacher, whoever had the job of getting you to do what you didn't want to.

Yes, each file is a visual nag: "don't forget to do me," "don't forget this has to be done," "don't forget your deadline for this." You may think you grew up and left home, but you brought the nagging of your parents and teachers with you. You hired piles of paper to nag (the kinder word is remind) you to get your work done.

Wouldn't it be nice to grow up and not have anyone--or any thing -- tell you to clean your room?

It would also be nice to understand that imposing order on your office restructures you inner life a bit. Think of it as very cheap therapy.