Guide to the Perfect Office Desk

Your office desk.  Not just another mass manufactured office accessory, your desk is so much more ─ a platform for work product, a sanctuary from office chaos, and a home away from home.  As such, your desk, not only needs to be multidimensional, but also, like any of piece of personal real estate, it needs to express your point of view.  The RSP suggests arming your desk with the following survival tools to complement your already stellar office brand: 

Safety pins: You never know when you are going to have an tear or a blouse that the dry cleaners shrank.  Safety pins can cure said unwelcome tears and gaposis (read: your bra is showing through the gap between the buttons of your shirt and you need to safety pin it from the inside to shut that thing closed)

Compact Mirror: Your bestie is not around to tell you that you have spinach in your teeth.

Breath Fixer: A must for after lunch meetings

Dry Shampoo: An amazing quick fix for a mini-hair makeover after a long greasy hair day at work

Desk Cleaner: Cleanliness is godliness and a messy desk reflects on you and your work

Non-Flashy Screensaver: Nix the pets, flowers, boyfriends, etc and try to stick to a basic screensaver.  Women have it hard enough in the office and it is hard for men to take you seriously as a business professional when they are staring at your Shitzu all day.

Achievements from the office mixed with personal interests: Remember that everything on your desk shares with those around you elements of your brand. As such, include thoughtful items that label you as someone who can do it all. For example: Mix 1 or 2 (max) pictures of your family in with lucites of your business achievements.

Foot Rest: Cankles are not fun for anyone.  Invest in a foot rest and eliminate large ankles that grow as a result of a long day, seated in heals.  

Extra Pair of Shoes (Hide them): One never knows when you are going to leave for the office in your flip flops or running shoes and forget your shoes.  Not to mention that one needs backup for broken heals.

Purse Hook: Hanging your brand not only preserves the leather of your small fortune piece of leather, but also prevents unwanted bag trinkets from escaping onto the floor during the day (hello back up tampon that has fallen into the office aisle)