Metacognition: Get Organized

I love my Macbook. I go on it every day. So obviously I would want to treat it nicely and organize all of the files, e-mails, and applications on it.  I took up this grueling task, beginning by organizing my Word documents into folders and deleting any useless files.  I then cleaned up my desktop by removing unwanted icons from my dock, which made it a lot simpler and easier to navigate. I finished up by browsing through my e-mail inbox and deleting all of the useless e-mails I accumulated over the years.

I will admit that I was a little unenthusiastic when I knew I had to organize my computer. Perusing the abysmal lists of files and e-mails was a daunting task. But as soon as I got more into the organization, I began to feel more and more productive, like I was doing something that matters.  By the time I was finished, I felt pretty pleased with myself for completing this undertaking.

After completing this project, my mind felt a lot more organized.  I am generally not a neatly organized person, instead relying on a system of untidy organization to get by.  This is probably one of the first times that I have neatly organized something in my life, so it's easy to understand the sense of confidence that I felt after finishing.

Before organizing my computer, I really did not have much idea of the variation of documents stored on my computer.  While looking through all of my files, I found some that I had forgot about or had not looked at in a while.  I found some plans for my Academy Epic (that's something on which I would be happy to elaborate some other time) and some of my English projects from last year.  It was pretty interesting to see how much my writing had progressed during my freshman year.

Now that my computer is organized, I will be able to work more efficiently with less distractions and a better system in place.  I definitely plan to organize my computer again in the future because the time will come again when my current layout becomes outdated and needs to be changed again (and also because I like how nice my desktop looks with so few icons).

15 icons total. Anyone with a Mac should know how few icons this is.