Becoming and staying organized isn’t about being neat, tidy, clean, pretty, or pristine. It’s not about an aesthetically pleasing external appearance (though it doesn’t hurt).
Being organized is about making it easy to track down what you need, to easily make progress on what matters to you, to improve your ability to take action on what’s important and critical in your life. It’s about having instant clarity, progress within reach, to not need to be pushed or pulled.
It’s about reducing the 15 minutes you would spend sorting through clutter down to 5 seconds scanning a summary so that the 14 minutes and 55 seconds you would have had to spend otherwise doesn’t result in yet another delay in getting started on making things better.
Not taking longer to get from where you are to where you want to be is a choice you can make when you position tasks, resources, assignments, projects and reminders in their optimal place.
Smooth, calm, doable, easy — this is what being organized is about.
Internal peace.
