Fix Your Jam Space

NorioDS

I haven't practised in WEEKS. Maybe over a month ? Today I realise it might have something to do with my messy "office".

I work from home and my jam space is also my office. I have a guitar stand, amp, pedals and my recording device in there. Also, my desk, computer and a tiny fish tank, and a plastic table with a "fish tank" experiment I never started. That tank is empty but taking up space. Same goes for the table.

A couple weeks ago, I brought in another 2 guitar cases from the garage and a few other things. Over the past few months, in fact, I've been adding more crap to my office. It reached the point where it was a mess and cramped.

Yesterday I tidied everything up. Put my guitars away until I'm ready to put in the effort to sell them. (That's why I took them out.) Put away the spare tank and spare table and tidied up the room a bit.

Just the bare necessities in here now.

And I almost immediately felt like picking up my guitar and playing.

Messy space, messy mind. That's true for me. Maybe it's true for you?

So if you haven't been playing and you don't know why, maybe clean up your jam space and see if that fixes things.

Hope this helps someone ?

warrenpridgeon

NorioDS I need to tidy up my space... We've got family coming to stay at our house for a couple of days here and there over the next while...

and I've been starting up a new company from scratch... I've also joined a band... and have bought some sound equipment.

As a result I've got paperwork... computers... guitars... speakers... mixing desk... mics... cables and other misc stuff lying everywhere.

I REALLY need to get stuff tidied up.

NorioDS

warrenpridgeon Yeah, funny enough, having family over to stay for a while (weekends mostly) has also had a major effect on my jam space.

It's something to keep in mind because we "just quickly" stash stuff in our office- or jam-spaces but we don't fix it later. And once Monday comes, you're too stuck in the week to go and tidy up.

I feel like 30-60 minutes after a busy weekend (but before chillaxing and enjoying the Sunday evening) would help us a lot.

V8

I did clean my desk (a whole 5mins that took ? ) in the mancave before beginning - so there's an oasis of clean in the middle of a sea of chaos. One thing about living in a windy area, if you miss a week - the dust gets dusty. Grrrrr.

warrenpridgeon

Ok... so I did SOMETHING...
Went from this:

To this:

I don't know how I actually survived with all that ************ at my feet! I have cuphooks on the back of the desk. And a multi plug screwed into the bottom of the desk in the corner. I still would like to get some trunking or something and put that on the back of the desk... but for now... it's MUCH better than it was.

wern101

warrenpridgeon bout time someone makes wireless electricity. Oh. Wait. Tesla did and we never got any of it. Damn governments! Now we gotta spend time tidying up cables!