A Clean Desk

And I just received one of your books, Pebble and Wren. Bought it on Amazon and love it! ❤❤❤

Ah yes, the adhd work place, looks like a mess, is actually the most organized work place in the building

If it's not immediately visible to me, it may as well not exist.

I'd spend 5 hours cleaning everything, and 5 minutes making a mess again

It's better to know where everything is than it is to have a clean workspace.

The curse of having a clean room …that and everything looking wrong with nothing there, it does feel like a stock photo

I heard that if someone's work desk is messy, it actually hints some above average intelligence.

This is me on all levels, and especially when it's someone else that's gone and cleaned my desk, the things are effectively lost till further notice

Love the clicky pen part.

"I mean, you look like you work in a stock photo.." ☠️☠️☠️

Aaah! This IS me. I have a pile of finished work that my boss needs to sign before it goes to accounting that I want to review with him. I have my library of things I want to do in future projects. My pile of projects I SHOULD be working on but I either hate the clients OR it's the most boring project ever and I will be able to finish it quickly when the deadline comes. Then there's all my art supplies hidden in my desk and doodle note book.

Living in organized chaos, means finding the balance between, absolutely cleaning everything so it can look flawless, and understanding what's actually helpful and organized but re-arranging the messy piles so it's cleaned up but you can still find everything...

I have never felt so seen as a person with ADHD...

I need that smiley face mug!

My family knows and knows it well to NEVER EVER clean my desk, especially when I am off for vacations or business travel.

So many creatives have adhd...❤❤❤😂😂😂

Thanks a lot, Chris! Now I'm fighting off tears at how _waaaaaaayyyyy_ too relatable this is!

Man, this is too relatable

This video is really relatable to me. I have an easier time finding everything in my room when it’s a total mess.

*click clack* okay now do that hours on loop and you would’ve gotten completely distracted on all your work by a clicky pen

You’re getting better and better at animating Chris! Keep up the amazing work!

A messy desk means a messy mind An empty desk means an empty mind

I hate that I relate to this

Finally someone understands! Just because you don't understand how something is organised, doesn't mean that it's not organised at all.

That mug should be official merch

It may be chaos, but it’s his chaos. I can relate and respect him for that

Ur one of the only creators/artists that doesn't overwhelm the audience with sounds, colors and unnecessary edits. Gets to the point softly and it's easy for everyone to understand! Ur amazing, all ur content is always super relaxing and relatable, good job

The pen clicking is just WAY too relatable

"You look like you work in a stock photo" really got me 😂😂😂

literally me,people think my room is messy but it is very organised and I hate it when people move things

Aah yes, a classic story of me being AuDHD and functioning in organised chaos

It's not messy, it's chaotically ordered.

It may look like a mess but at least you’ll know where things are

Relatable, but not just for workspace. I need to know where everything in my bedroom is, and if my things aren’t in plain sight then finding them suddenly requires so much motivation and daily tasks just become so much harder. Messy rooms just make everything so much simpler. I can’t stand it when all my things get hidden away in drawers and cupboards

Dammit, I feel extremely called out. It might look like a disaster, I might have over 10 doom drawers/boxes, and I might need to search for a minute or two, but at least I know where everything is. It also helps my severe anxiety and paranoia so that I don't think my things are disappearing.

TBVG, working in a stock photo would probably suck

That clicky pen is so relatable 😂

This is me every time I try to clean up and organize

"I don't know where anything is" Blud disposed all his items out the window 💀

I totally get that. I always call it "creative chaos". Even though it looks like it's a chaotic mess, I always know exactly where everything is.

Ahhhh yes, the creative clutter. I can't work without it lmao

The nerodivergent workplace always LOOKS like a mess but there's always a method to the madness.

“An empty desk means an empty mind. Einstein has a messy desk.” -i forgot who said that

"Away! Away? It's some mythical place like Narnia!" A comedian from the 2000s.

That’s just me when I clean my room

heres the thing. ive somehow mastered the skill of knowing where everything is, AND having everything being neat. 😎

This is the perfect way to describe my organization. Looks like a jumbled mess, but everything has its place and is mentally categorized. When it’s clean, I can’t find a thing.

I had two desks, a credenza, and two filing cabinets. I trained everyone, upon pain of flaying, that all new items brought into my office went on my chair. There were piles upon other piles rotated 90 degrees and anything I didn’t place was invisible to me. But I could instantly lay hands on what I needed!

An organized mess is still organized.

With that level of order already existing, you might as well have trashed a full shelf

I’m going to be honest. I was just waiting for the coffee cup to start talking

I totally get it. I used to have the same issue. You have to retrain yourself to learn where everything has been moved to and commit to returning things there. I bought a labeler for key things around my home and work office and it was the best thing I ever did! Honestly, it hardly matters the cleanliness of your desk as long as it’s not stinking up the office, creating fire hazard, or where customers can see it.

Some of us work well in organized chaos

When I was a teenager and my mom wanted to "help" me by cleaning my room, I used to say: "This is my controlled chaos. Please don't make a mess." She never understood me though... x)

My work forced me to straighten up my office. I relate to this video so hard.

Chaotic Order at its finest. Its almost impossible to explain the Paradox that is "Desk/Living Space Entropy" to anyone who has not experienced it.

That's my SIL. She cleans for the sake of cleaning and then doesn't know where anything is. 😂

It's what i call "cleaning without organization". Where the only goal is making it looking clean but you don't move things where they can still be tracked the same way as before.

I relate to this so much! I spent two weeks avoiding the kitchen because after I had help cleaning it walking into the room would trigger panic attacks... because I didn't know how to deal with how my helper cleaned it. I couldn't find anything and my work flow was ruined.

I feel this :D I knew where all my stuff is, until I clean up and find nothing anymore :D

yay!

When you realize you just had things sorted weirdly

I always say there is a method to my madness and a place for everything. I always lose things once I'm told to "organize" my things...

"The messier the work space, the more genuis of a worker" - My 5th Grade Teacher

If you keep your hobbies out in the open and visible, you're more likely to work on them. BUT, if everything is messy all the time you'll get depressed. What I do is I have a rule. My living room, kitchen, and bathroom must always be clean in case guests come over. But my bedroom is allowed to be a little messy. That way I always have a clean place for when I'm overwhelmed and a creative/disorganized place for hobbies.

I too have organized chaos, i get so upset when people move my stuff around

The battle between my mom's OCD and my organized mess.

This is why you never clean a man's room. It's not a mess, it's Organized chaos.

Ah organized chaos, I know the feeling

Speaking from ADHD, this is so true.

That mug is living its best life 😃

certain things go in certain places

Cass from Clutterbug says "Horizontal means hidden, vertical is visual" so basically you need different ways to organize like hanging bins etc

This how we feel looking through our photos and talking ourselves out of uploading the videos

This reminds me of that meme where a guy asked his roommate for a paperclip and his roommate responded with, "on the floor, right side of the desk, between the leg and the mini fridge"

It’s even worse if someone tries to clean it for you! I appreciate the thought when someone cleans for me, but I really can’t find anything if I’m not the one to put things away.

The messier my table is, the more it help me feel I’m busy getting so much work done. Even tho all I did was attend 2 meetings, send 3 emails and drank 4 cups of coffee that day : D

Its even worse when someone else cleans stuff for you. Im still missing important items

This is me every time my mom forces me to "organize" my room or my desk

So really, he didn't clean. He stashed away.

This is SO relatable. My wife says I keep my home office in chaos, but it's a controlled chaos. I know where everything is. She says she can't find anything in there. I just say "Why are you in MY office? We bought our house with 4 bedrooms for a reason. 1 room for us, 1 room for guests/a possible kid someday, and 2 rooms for an office for each of us."

this is how I manage tabs for my internet browser. there's logic I swear

Probably the best way to clean my office is to clear out what should be trashed. Mostly papers. That seems to help a lot. Once, I put my papers in about 4 reusable grocery bags. Then when I had the time and wherewithal, I took a bag and cleared _all_ the stuff out of it that I didn't need anymore. What was left was maybe ten items I needed to keep. The rest got dumped.

This is so relatable. Once my mom cleaned out my dresser and I wanted to go grab something from it before remembering I didn’t know where it was or if I even had it.

Absolutely! Let's hear it for messy desks!

To be fair, there is literally nothing there

my feelings when my grandmother broke in my room and cleaned my desk for me

They need a visual organization system. I would recommend trays for the piles of paper and keep them in the same places he had them before, just slightly corralled. Then use vertical space for the sticky notes and markers. Do I think about this stuff a lot? Yes, yes I do😅

I feel this pain

I swear this happens to me sometimes. My mom got me a shelf for my notebooks. But instead I just shoved everything back into the corner of my desk.

lets go! a new chris hallbeck vid!

I can clean my desk BUT I guarantee you my efficiency reduces by half because of it.

Screams in adhd solidarity

I KNEW THAT WOULD BE THE PUNCHLINE!

I mean this in the best way, this is EXTREMELY neurodivergent energy. I relate to the controlled chaos organization so so much,, auDHD real

I wouldve just straightened out the stacks, grouped up the tools, and moved the sticky notes into easily seen places

"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?" - Albert Einstein

As someone with ADHD, I can relate. This is a disaster for our brains 😭

Why is this so relatable

🎶Ooh I can’t believe it! There she goes again! She’s tidied up, and I can’t find anything!”🎶