A plain surface is an instrument. It may look like absence, but it is prepared space. When you clear a table, you are not removing life. You are setting the stage for the next honest thing to arrive without having to push its way through old material.
Spend a few minutes making space today. Remove what does not belong to this hour. Put tools back in familiar places. The mind respects rooms that remember their purpose, and it works better inside them.
You will feel a lightness that is not about design. It is about friction. Fewer objects means fewer decisions and fewer places for attention to snag. The work releases a little more quickly. You notice the line that matters sooner.
This practice scales. A shelf, a desk, a project plan. Clear one layer so the next can hold. Winter is a good teacher here. It shows how quiet can carry more than you expect.