Organized

 

    You’ve seen the person.  Perhaps you ARE the person!  The one who has everything in its own place.  The one who knows where each item is to be placed and how it should be used.  The person who has everything at their fingertips just when it is needed.  EVERYTHING so well organized!

     To some this may seem like a lot of work for nothing!  But, being organized is not only effective, it makes a person’s work actually more efficient and their life more enjoyable.  As a young boy I had an enjoyment of collecting baseball cards.  Perhaps some of you remember how you could get five or ten cards in pack with a stick of gum.  I thought it was one of the most wonderful things to do as a young kid.

     You could talk about all the statistics on the reverse side of the card that had been included by the card marker.  How many hits, home runs, teams that the player had been on, and so forth.  There was also the joy of being able to “trade” your duplicate cards to your buddies for some that they wanted to “trade.”  You could work your deck to see if you could get all the players cards from your favorite team or you could use some other measure to complete your “sets” of cards as you saw fit.

     To help in all these activities you had to make sure that YOUR collection was kept in the right order so you knew what you had and what you wanted.  You had to keep that collection well organized!  I think it was in some fashion, this card collecting activity, that helped me to come to appreciate the art of being organized.  I only wish I had the foresight to have wanted to keep that collection for a future date and perhaps I would have had some of my collection today that might have been worth some money.  However, I still enjoyed the time spent collecting them and having the “trading” sessions with my buddies.  I could have said similar comments about collecting comic books (as they were called at the time).

     You have to remember that nobody is born organized.  Nor do we automatically become organized at some point in our lives.  Being organized is something you must learn.  And you can learn this art even if you think you are the most Unorganized person in the world.

     At lifehack.org (https://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/how-organize-your-life-10-habits-really-organized-people.html ) you can learn 10 habits of really organized people.  Here are the topics that they cover in their article:

1.      Write things down.

2.      Make Schedules and Deadlines.

3.      Don’t Procrastinate.

4.      Give Everything a Home.

5.      Declutter Regularly.

6.      Keep Only What You Need.

7.      Know Where to Discard Items.

8.      Stay Away from Bargains.

9.      Delegate Responsibilities.

10.  Work Hard.

     You can easily see how each one of these topics could become a specific talking point of its own with many words used to describe in great detail how you might be able to accomplish each one of them.  The article mentioned above does a good job in providing a brief encapsulated view of each one.

     To be well organized in our lives makes us better organized in our work, our families, our goals and every other aspect of life.  To be well organized requires effort and, in some cases, a LOT of work!  But it will be well worth it when the time comes and a certain item is needed and we immediately produce what is needed because we are so well organized.  The primary problem to being organized is the fact that we’re only human!

QUOTE TO CONSIDER

THOUGHTFUL GEM

"The best plan is to be organized for any situation, 

unless the plan calls for utter chaos!"