I just realized that the panels in my cube are easily interchangable I have two whiteboard panels that I have to (sigh) get up to write on. So I switched one of them with the non-functioning, utterly useless fabric panel to the right of my monitor.
Not that I ever use my whiteboard.
My sense has always been that people who use their whiteboards a lot are a helluva lot more organized and productive than I am. Then again, some people, upon inspection, may be found to be keeping the same stuff on there from one month to the next just to make it seem like they’re organized and productive.
A friend of mine had a whiteboard in his bedroom. That only stands out in my mind because he told me that he wrote “see a shrink” on it, which indeed he had. It seemed funny somehow.
I’ve found that whether I write something on a whiteboard, in a notebook, in an electronic PDA, or in an online notebook of sorts, my tendency is to become desensitized to whatever important note I’ve left for myself, rather than be motivated to act as a result of seeing it day after day. It’s just part of my overall pathology–if I set rules for myself, I break them; if I give myself reminders, I ignore them; if I set goals for myself, I procrastinate until there’s no chance to achieve them.
Yeah, with things like that I find it’s mainly in the head, and wherever it’s been written down is minor (maybe to remind me of details about something once I’ve already thought of it), not to motivate or remind me to do whatever it is.