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Never Neglect Your Workspace
Workspace maintenance is important.
I have yet to meet an artist who doesn’t have at least some clutter in their workspace.
Some of them are necessary tools. Cooks have pots, pans, and utensils lying around; artists have scattered brushes, paints, solvents, and canvases; writers have notes, inspirational baubles, and the like around their desks.
Sure, there are exceptions to this. But I know, at least in my experience, when I am super-focused on my work, the maintenance of my workspace takes a hit.
For me, that means that paperwork from mundane matters gets piled on the desk, I neglect dusting, and disorder and chaos come into being all around me.
While you can neglect and even ignore these things in the moment — particularly when you’re creating — eventually, external clutter is taken inside.
In other words, if your workspace is a mess your mindset/headspace/psyche will become messy.
Clutter is chaos made manifest
After a time, I’ll find that my desk is disorganized. My inspirational statuettes are askew, there is loose paper from a mailing I got but didn’t discard, and lots of cat hair on my keyboard and the edge of one of my monitors.
