Your office hasn’t caught up to your career yet.
The better you get, the worse your office looks.
There’s a pattern I’ve noticed in people’s spaces for years and it never stops being strange. The better someone gets at their job, the worse the room they do it in becomes.
The junior version of you had a tidy desk and a plan, albeit make-shift, with a stationery holder to match. The senior version of you has back-to-back clients, a chair that was meant to be temporary, and no spare hour to fix any of it, and you seem to keep losing your pen.
That’s not laziness. It’s what happens when you’re the one deciding, every single day, which fire gets put out first. A client call always beats fixing a chair. It has for six years now. Nobody wakes up and decides to neglect their office. It just never wins.
Here’s the part that should bother you a little: the years that made you good enough to charge what you charge are the exact years that let this room fall behind. Not a coincidence sitting next to your growth. A cost of it.
That chair you keep meaning to sort out. How long has “temporary” actually run for? Two years? Four? Put the real number next to the word “temporary” and see how it sits.
Pick one thing in the room that’s bothering you right now. Not five things. One. Fix that this week.
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