I was inspired by a new show featuring Peter Walsh, the organizational design expert, and I decided to use his method of organization to tackle my desk area. I reasoned that doing this will free up my time because I will no longer have to look for anything. Rather than empty a room as he …
Month: February 2011
Whenever there is a crisis of any type, time seems to slow. You may sit around a hospital waiting room for fourteen hours, having forgotten to eat, feeling your jeans becoming looser and your mind more focused. Suddenly, what was so important yesterday—the stain on your new white blouse, the missed dental appointment, the squeaky …
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Nothing is exact. On the beach, there are millions of sand grains, and there is no real ending or beginning point as one might see in a sock drawer or on a desk. Grains of sand, leaves on the ground, snowflakes, and other physical entities that have no real defined beginning or end provide us …
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Part of the problem with “getting organized” is that it is deemed a destination as opposed to a journey. Once you get organized, you tell yourself, then you will do this or that, but there is something quite comforting about organized chaos. That is, if you accept that you will always have a lot of …
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Perhaps the most frustrating part of managing time, or trying to manage it, is the sense that you are losing time. You plan your day and it includes a doctor visit that turns into a three-hour stretch so the laundry gets behind or plans are cancelled. You feel out of control because you did not …
