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 …
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 …