What’s hidden under the slogan ‘Anzen Ichi Ban’ (Safety First) part 5 – Clean up!

Is your work place messy and unorganized? If it is; than the right thing to do is to clean up. Make sure that you got the place for everything; no matter how small it is just get a place for it. A clean, tidy and an organized work place is where the money likes to be; no argument. It is where the money and other good things like to associate with, no question about it.
How can you know that your place needs cleaning? One sure answer is, when you can’t find the things that you need and knew pretty well that you saw where they were a day or two earlier. Let’s say that you need a Philips head screw driver to open up your desktop pc and you just can’t find the screw driver that you had used it 2 days ago; then you’d better get organized. Or, when there’s a sudden black-out and you can’t find the flash light which you think it is still in the first draw of your work table. There were numerous cases that you and I had experienced that tell us to get tidy up and get organized.
The examples above tell us that when our work places are messy and things are all over the place, we are wasting valuable time. In time management, the first thing that we have to do before even before getting your planner right; is to get all things at the right places. Time is so precious because unlike money, once its loss it’s unrecoverable – that simple. If you lose a day, you are behind your competitor by one day, and there’s no way that you can be head unless you have to put in 200% effort just to get even and another 100% increase to be ahead, in simple term, you have to put 3 times your normal effort to get head again by just losing one day. That’s why we just can’t afford to let our bad habits to interfere with our ambitions.
Besides, a clean and organized work place is an ideal place to conduct business, rest assured that there won’t be any hidden danger which could strike you when you least expected it. All movements would be smooth and jobs would be conducted swiftly and as a result money would come in quicker.
Start cleaning up by putting or placing things in it proper places. If you can’t find a place for some items, just throw them in a bin which you can sort out later after you complete the cleaning job. No, no… don’t procrastinate; start sorting up the items you collected in the bin and figure out how can you get proper places for them. Well, for some items that got not value to you, just get rid of them by giving them away or sell them off. Label your drawers, cabinets and lockers, they are essential because you can’t see them once you’d locked them up. Place all the frequently used items near to you, an arm length about you or make them visible to you.You see cleaning up your habit and your work place would bring you more good luck than bad ones. It’s simple; just use your 10mins before starting work, 10mins just after lunch and 10 minutes before closing for the day, everyday without fail would bring you good luck. How about that?