A Guide to Organize Your Workspace – How to Declutter

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In this video, I share the organization system that I use to keep my office tidy. Clean with me, and follow along in my decluttering process.

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💡My Organization System is made up of 3 design principles:
1. Function - The purpose of the space
2. Flow - How easy it is to access tools
3. Familiarity - Intuitive tool placement

🔢 The Process
00:00 – Why it's important to have an organized space
01:53 – Matthew Encina's Organization System
02:26 – 1. Audit Your Workflow
02:49 – 2. Remove everything to assess what you have.
03:07 – 3. Reduce and simplify
03:54 – 4. Take inventory
04:06 – 5. Measure and plan out your space
04:34 – 6. Compartmentalize with more storage
05:00 – 7. Label everything
05:23 – 8. Adjust as needed
05:49 – My five minute clean up routine 🧹

📝 Here are a few recommended resources to help you organize your own space:

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Hello. I'm Matthew Encina. I'm the Chief Content Officer at The Futur and a Creative Director at Blind. I’m a Filipino-American. Born and raised in LA. I studied Graphic Design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. I've been a creative professional for over 15 years directing, designing, and animating for some pretty awesome clients.

I love to rock climb, breakdance, train in combat sports, play video games, drink coffee, and nerd out on video games and comic books.

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It's nice to meet you.
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[mxllxp]

When he said "I wasn't cleaning. I was hiding things." I felt that. Lol

[octanefx]

1:29 "i was not cleaning i was hiding" that is what most of us doing😀

[rfiudkz]

Nice. My guy was generous enough to summarise the amount of knowledge he gathered from books and videos that would've taken me a lot of time to do myself. Great video, great person. Thanks for the vid!

[g-cellatwork]

How can someone dislike this?
The aesthetics of the video and audio, the message and straight to the point...
Thanks man, this truly made me want to clean and truly organize my stuff, not just hiding

[MKmagnifico]

“I wasn’t cleaning, I was hiding”

I could not relate more!

Thanks for making this video!

[dominic.h.]

I've tried to declutter since forever, but every source I found was beating around the bush and was talking about concepts instead of getting to the point. You did a marvelous job combining those concepts with an actual representation of that process on a computer desk environment, the exact thing I need to declutter. Thank you!

[vermine]

I've been postponing cleaning out all my items for years now and stacking up useless things but this is really an amazing step by step process. I have already written down your steps and planned out how to finally tackle this issue once and for all. Thanks bro!

[richarddsouza]

I've been dreading the cleaning and organizing of my home office. Doing it while using your ideas has made it much easier and more fun too! Thank you!

[brycen]

Honestly dude I love the quality over quantity it is a great way to do your videos, keep pumping them out man, I love them

[AyechinoProd]

Even the timeline is organized... That speaks volumes.

[normayoung]

I am a senior woman. I enjoyed your video. I had cleaning business 18 years. I want to start an organizing business for small business owners. You provided much information. I follow The Futur. You are making a difference. Thanks!

[refinedsimplicity]

This is an outstanding office organization video. I was so impressed with the concept that you are a designer so you designed how your office should function and look - you are giving me lots of ideas as I am currently in the process of re-designing my home office. Unfortunately I'm in the stage of it looks worse before it looks

I also love that you were organizing real office materials and not just "decorating" your office. So many videos are about "decorating" a home office which is nice but I wanted ideas on how to store my reference materials and work tools. Your video clearly and concisely showed how and why you placed the items in the way you did. Great job !!!

[MumtazPachisa]

Function, flow, familiarity - spot on! Your narration is calming, the esthetics pleasing, and the end result just amazing. I am totally motivated to organize my work space. Thank you, Matthew 😊

[ErikCohenVlog]

OK, I just looked around at my desk space and felt it was a disaster so I googled organizing a workspace and found this video. I am now a new subscriber and have saved this to my favorites. So much of what he says rings true. Inspired is what I feel, I hope to design my space to be as functional, flowing and efficient as yours is here. Awesome video! Thank you!

[awesomespaceplane]

"Decision fatigue, " The monster in my path has a name! I was born messy, but I'm still fighting the good fight. Bravo! I've found inspiration in your guide.

[andrewwong]

The quote:"I was cleaning, I was hiding." hit me so hard like I never saw a quote that is so relatable, ever.

[ImprovementGang]

Wow, I think that this is probably one of the best desk setup advice for people. You need to make sure that you can easily access the things that you usually use, and make sure that the clean up is easy and convenient. Often times, things look aesthetic, but are not very practical.

[manchest]

I can say with absolute confidence and with pride that my workspace is not as cluttered as yours. My space has only the things that I use daily.

How? Easy. My mom. She's ensured that I understand the importance of cleaning. She's rubbed me thoroughly. ROFL

[madmax]

I've watched Matthew's videos several times to help give me ideas for my new home office design. Thank you for sharing your experience and ideas. Your videos are so thoughtful, helpful, and soothing!

[BrowningBoy]

Just what I needed to see. The way you film and capture all the specifics step by step is so calming and simple to follow. Just as organized as your office. I know it’s a lot of work, but it really goes a long way! Thanks for this!