What’s hidden under the slogan ‘Anzen Ichi Ban’ (Safety First) part 6 – Orderliness

It’s a very good sign that you have already started clearing up your places of work or your workshops. When I did this cleaning and clearing before; I recovered some old bills, important letters, my insurance premium receipts, the screw driver that I thought was taken by somebody else and even some money. That answered why I was behind at getting the right things done on time. No wonder much of my time was wasted looking for these things and it was so bad that I just forgot about the whole thing. I am very careful now not to take any junks or rubbish from outside into my working place. There are just too many junks out there like brochures for machine parts, directories, and catalogs that I brought back from exhibitions or hundred of old diskettes that contain some information that I really don’t need anymore.
Filtering off the items from getting into your workshops is a must to maintain the amount of accumulated stuffs that if left unchecked would develop into time wasted problems later. Make sure that these items are discarded immediately because you don’t actually need them although sometimes your conscience would feel otherwise. If you want to have a collection of items, let the items be something which can appreciate in value over time. Don’t buy some tools just because you need to use them once. We can afford to accumulated useless items and spent money or time to manage their inventories. It’s ridiculous.
Ok, in my last post I attached a photo of a workshop of a violin maker. She got this perfectly arranged cute little workshop that worth giving 10 out of 10 points. For the benefit of you guys, I attached the photo with a slightly higher resolution. Every thing big or small is neatly arranged; materials and tools are in order. It’s a perfect place to wooing money to come. You see orderliness is your next task after first cleaning and clearing away the junks from your workplace. All things come in shapes, type and sizes that enables you to place them in an orderly manner.
Use your creativity to get all the tools, materials, books, etc properly arranged; put in some artistic touch to arranging them in the manner that you are comfortable with. Use your imagination to get this thing done in a satisfying way. As I wrote earlier, small items that are frequently used can be on your table or places that can be assess effortlessly. You might want to use different colors to differentiate different sizes or material types. Yeah, get into the visible management.
Another hidden benefit of good arrangement is space optimization and you can use the space or area that you have ‘reclaimed’ for more valuable activities. Don’t utilize it for storing items that are supposed to be discarded. May be a place for your meditation or worship…is up to you as long as it is being used for purposes that add values to your work. Orderliness and smart arrangement or our workshops or working places can have a positive impact on your motivation to be more productive. Make our work places as the places for the minds to be inspired to do more and to get more without burning extra energy. As I told you earlier money has no eyes, but it has class when choosing a place for to reside.