It’s National Clean your Desk Day — Five ways to keep on top of the mess when you’re self-employed and don’t even have a desk.

Today could be a great day to think about some small business housecleaning techniques which may help manage your stress levels as a freelancer.

Apparently — it’s National Clean your Desk Day — a day to look at starting the year with good habits and a tidy desk. After all, tidy desk, tidy mind, right? However, with the increasing number of people moving towards remote working — how many of us still have an office desk? Remote work, self-employment, coworking, hotdesking and mobiles have all radically changed the notion of work environments.

So, what does a tidy desk for a freelancer look like? What if you’re nomadic or exclusively work from your clients desks — a different desk every day?

Worry not, you might not have a desk, but today could be a great day to think about some small business housecleaning techniques which may help manage your stress levels as a member of the modern workforce:

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