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Forget hard work and perseverance, getting ahead is as simple as tidying your desk. According to a leading expert, having aclutteredenvironment reflects a cluttered mind and the act of tidying up can help you be more successful. The advice comes from Jayne Morris, the resident “life coach” for NHS Online, who said it is no good just moving the mess around. In order to clear the mind, unwanted items must be thrown away to free your “internal world”, she said. Ms Morris, who claims to have coached celebrities to major business figures, said: "Clearing clutter from your desk has the power to transform you business. "How? Because clutter in your outer environment is the physical manifestation of all the clutter going on inside of you. "Clearing clutter has aripple effectacross your entire life, including your work. “Having an untidy desk covered in clutter could be stopping you achieving the business success you want." She is adamant cleaning up will be abooneven though some of history's biggest achievers lived and worked in notoriously messy conditions. Churchill was considered untidy from a boy throughout his life, from his office to his artist's studio, and the lab where Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin was famouslydishevelled. Among the recommendations is that the simply tidying a desk at work and an overflowing filing cabinet will instantly have a positive impact on “your internal world.” | 
