What if you took everything off your desk and put it on the floor or a folding table across the room. Clean desktop. Then you took one thing at a time from the “stuff” and decided to deal with it once and for all or throw it away?
A cluttered desk hurts your concentration, and in the end, all you have is what comes out of your mind.
I just did this on Sunday! All that “stuff” looked like a mountain of backlog and was intimidating. It turned out that it was just a mess that was dragging me down.
Ouch! That one hurts me. One look at my desk tells a story of procrastination, and lack of focus.
In my experience some people want to help and by doing so they end up creating clutter that wasnt originally there. Or at least not on that desk. During clean up things get moved around and even the neatly processed and filed away folders surface. They create a mess and frustration while waisting man hours only because they lacked a vision and an ear to follow your instructions. Think before you act.
Or try to help others.