Rise From the Pits Like a Rock Star -- Reb MacRath
I could give you a dozen excuses for my plunge to the bowels of the pits in filing organization. And a few of those alibis might seem understandable.
- In the move from Seattle to Tucson, I'd left behind my filing cabinets and hadn't been careful enough in boxing personal papers.
- In Tucson, with a bad knee and limited public transportation, shopping for office replacements had proved to be beyond me.
- My work schedule and medical appointments got the best of my time management.
- Etc,
But screw excuses. I ended up with papers stuffed pell-mell in bags and boxes. And I couldn't find a thing. Furthermore, my new WIP demanded extreme organizational skills-- and I was starting to feel like an imposter.
I recalled an old strategy that I called Transfer of Funds-- depositing confidence and power from past accomplishments to areas if weakness. Could it work again for me with the mess that I found myself in?
To start, I bought a dozen cardboard bankers boxes, two dozen hanging holders, and three dozen file folders. And I accepted at the start that the entire project might take me up to a month. Just as I do with my writing, I dealt with one paper, or page, at a time.
And I'm here to tell you the transfer of funds also works in reverse. The more progress I make with the filing each day, the greater my confidence grows in clearing the WIP's hurdles.
Give it a try with some task you hate or think beyond you. It may enrich you elsewhere in ways you can't imagine.
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ADDED BONUS
After publishing this, I awoke from a deep sleep to the flash of a lightbulb within me: time management belongs to the same family as file organization. And I began to ponder where I'm losing or squandering time. How can I get more accomplished with a superior time game plan?
Stay tuned for more on this subject next month.
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