Now imagine if we didn’t conduct routine organization

Boat called Amazon in Miami Boat residential boat dock
Like the mighty Amazon river, life’s challenges constantly flow

 

You know how we sometimes get on a roll and we sort, clean, organize, and then purge or donate our stuff?

And then shortly afterwards, it feels like it never happened?

Now imagine if we didn’t routinely organize our stuff.

So much of the ‘why’ is hidden in the constant onslaught of life.

The battle is often not to get ahead, but simply not to get buried.

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Having an accidents-will-happen karma is part of being decently organized

Apple Store happy 30th birthday Mac display
The consistency with which Apple exceeds my expectations is stunning

 

Elementary school accident damaged MacBook. Genius Bar says it can be fixed, but it will be expensive. Like over $400 expensive.

Being decently organized means having decent backup funds for the unexpected stuff we know will happen, just not when.

Prepared to pay whatever it took, the Apple Genius offered a price guarantee $150 less than he felt it will take.

Maybe being organized in our ‘accidents will happen’ karma is part of being decently organized.

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The best, simplest, explanation for finding balance in life

Two authors who work together at a world class company
Balance isn’t between work life and home life (it’s five things, not two)

 

For a variety of reasons, and especially those reasons being led by media of all sorts, we have some nebulous notion of balance.

Balance isn’t absence of stress. Which is what many people think is the byproduct of balance.

Balance is taking a personal inventory (at whatever intervals we choose) and giving ourselves a grade or evaluation on how much energy we are expending mentally, physically, spiritually, professionally (at work), and personally (at home).

Our energy ought to feel like no single area of the five is being neglected. It should feel like each area is symbiotic with the others.

When one is enhanced, all are enhanced.

When one is diminished, all are diminished.

And we want to be in a place were we can recognize it nearly instantaneously, and even to predict it in the future and take action now to mitigate it.

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