For me, the most guilt-inducing commercial on TV these days is a 30-second spot for Home Depot called Get Organized, in which a family is franticly searching their house for a list of New Year’s Resolutions that they have somehow misplaced. The irony is that Number 3 on the four-item resolutions list is “Get organized”.
That alone is enough to make me feel a bit sheepish because every year I make that very resolution, and every year I fail, and every year I wind up writing about it. In fact, once again I’m attempting to implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done program. To really do this, I’d need 2 or 3 days of nothing else to do, but that’s not going to happen, so I’ll have to work into it as quickly as I can work around other things. (More about starting/restarting the GTD program later…but if anybody reading this would like to comment on his or her experience with GTD, I’d love to read it.)
Anyway, the other three items on the New Year’s Resolutions list in the Home Depot spot are 1) Exercise, 2) Eat healthy, and 4) Write novel. Taken with 3) Get organized, all four items are on my own list for 2007. Check, check, check, and check.
In my defense, this weekend I have managed to trash six garbage bags full of stuff I haven’t used or even looked at in years. That doesn’t make me organized, but I now have fewer things to organize, and that seems like a good start.
More thoughts on making resolutions later.
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I am organized. I eat healthyish. I need to exercise and I need to FINISH THE NOVEL, for crying out loud. Sigh. On my list of resolutions is Stop Cursing. I try every year. Every year I get a little closer to not having potty mouth.
Hey, at least you’re already holding to the blogging thing, right?!
More like guilted into it by Shelley after not writing a new post for nearly a week into the new year.
I firmly believe the trick to being (and staying) organized is to never keep anything. As soon as you get something, just throw it out. It’s a great system.
That’s horrible advice if you have something like a pot of gold.