On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:41:39 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Irv Finkleman wrote:

If I ever manage to get to the point where I can find the bench
underneath the clutter I will be more than happy to send you a photo
of it. I should have taken one when it was new for sentimental
reasons! :-)

Irv VE6BP

P.S. If you think the bench is bad, you should see the shack!


news:alt.binary.pictures.radio has a contest from time to time with
pictures of workbenches and home shops. Its about time for someone to
post another "My bench" photo and start another round over there.


I used to get ultra stressed when my workbench would get to be so
messy that I couldn't find anything I needed without a time consuming
search, if even then.

After having endured significant "heartburn" and internal self
analysis I came to the following realizations:

1) I was never going to be the kind of guy who had a clean neat
workplace with everything in its place all the time, I was too easily
distracted by "more important things".
2) Based on my conclusion in #1 above, when my shop (or any other part
of my unorganized life) became so messy that I was beginning to spend
as much time "finding things" as I was "fixing things or building
things" instead of LOOKING for what I couldn't then find I QUIT
LOOKING and simple cleaned and organized my shop until it was like
some of the photos I have seen in this thread. 99% of the time I
found what I was looking for in the process but resisted temptation to
stop cleaning until I was finished, otherwise I would be back in the
same mode sooner rather than later.
3) I concluded that if my assumptions/actions in #1 & #2 were valid
that it wasn't the messy shop that was the problem it was ME in that I
had simply misinterpreted an "automated message" from mother nature
that I initially understood to be "Find what you have lost, it is here
someplace..." was incorrect and was reassessed to mean: "Clean and
organize your work area now, or you will be continually stressed and
frustrated until you do." I think it was one of those situations
where I initially only read the first part of the message, because I
already KNEW what the rest of the message contained from what I had
read so far.....happy holidays!

Joe Brophy wrote:

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:41:39 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Irv Finkleman wrote:

If I ever manage to get to the point where I can find the bench
underneath the clutter I will be more than happy to send you a photo
of it. I should have taken one when it was new for sentimental
reasons! :-)

Irv VE6BP

P.S. If you think the bench is bad, you should see the shack!


news:alt.binary.pictures.radio has a contest from time to time with
pictures of workbenches and home shops. Its about time for someone to
post another "My bench" photo and start another round over there.

I used to get ultra stressed when my workbench would get to be so
messy that I couldn't find anything I needed without a time consuming
search, if even then.

After having endured significant "heartburn" and internal self
analysis I came to the following realizations:

1) I was never going to be the kind of guy who had a clean neat
workplace with everything in its place all the time, I was too easily
distracted by "more important things".
2) Based on my conclusion in #1 above, when my shop (or any other part
of my unorganized life) became so messy that I was beginning to spend
as much time "finding things" as I was "fixing things or building
things" instead of LOOKING for what I couldn't then find I QUIT
LOOKING and simple cleaned and organized my shop until it was like
some of the photos I have seen in this thread. 99% of the time I
found what I was looking for in the process but resisted temptation to
stop cleaning until I was finished, otherwise I would be back in the
same mode sooner rather than later.
3) I concluded that if my assumptions/actions in #1 & #2 were valid
that it wasn't the messy shop that was the problem it was ME in that I
had simply misinterpreted an "automated message" from mother nature
that I initially understood to be "Find what you have lost, it is here
someplace..." was incorrect and was reassessed to mean: "Clean and
organize your work area now, or you will be continually stressed and
frustrated until you do." I think it was one of those situations
where I initially only read the first part of the message, because I
already KNEW what the rest of the message contained from what I had
read so far.....happy holidays!


I have reached the point where I don't care if any of my benches are
clean. I am 100% disabled now, and I have so little time that I can
stand to be in my shop that I just finish what I have to and forget
about the shop till I need it again. It would take me years to ever get
it back the way it used to be, and I may not have those years left, so
why worry about a half dozen benches?

--
Been there, Done that, I've got my DD214 to prove it.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida