Back to school (or the office!): How to organize your desktop IRL

#DeskGoals — we all have them. Visions of a desktop that would reflect the organized, sophisticated, stylish and 10-pounds-thinner-with-perfect-hair version of ourselves we just know exists — if it weren’t buried under piles of paperwork and obscured by an overflowing inbox.

“We all have that Pinterest idea,” said Tanisha Porter, owner of Natural Born Organizers and president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Assn. of Productivity and Organizing, who admits to having a single pile of prioritized paperwork on her own desk, “but those Pinterest-worthy photos are very styled… so we have to keep that in mind. We can create that, but that comes with habits.”

Porter said, “It’s like with everything, it’s the daily, weekly and monthly behaviors we do everyday that keep things maintained.”

This is not the sexy solution we had hoped for.