People respond to incentives.  

Yesterday, I opened up my trusty SGRecycle app and saw that a recycling machine near my school was in operation. After finishing 8 periods of lessons, I didn’t have much mood to do much else, so I decided to clear some of the stuff on my staffroom table.  

Let’s say that I’m not the most consistent person when it comes to organising and filing stuff. In the past, I even embraced this messy side of me, flexing it as creative chaos. Never mind that I sometimes spent too much time looking for that one important document haha.  

I have since come to my senses, for tidy table = orderly mind. But I think my challenge is that I’m an innate hoarder. I like to keep physical copies of worksheets or notes that I took during workshops or inspirational quotes, etc. I do use some of them several years down the road, which makes discarding them now a chore to think through.  

Anyway, since the recycling machine was in business, I cut out some notes and pasted them on a notebook. Put some assignments in plain view so that I could return them to students. Reduced my clutter and made it more palatable-looking.  

I earned 110 sats from my recycled stuff, so that’s a bonus, aside from the therapeutic effect that decluttering always brings.