Top 10 New Year's Resolutions:
Get Organized
Get Organized
Why do we want to get
organized? Chaos takes a whole lot less energy, you know. It is a lot easier to
just let things get cluttered and messy than to try to keep them in order. For
instance, why should I make my bed up every morning when I’m just going to get
back in it at night? That’s five more minutes I could spend doing something
else – like putting on makeup. I gotta say, though, that I do get a sense of
satisfaction out of having a made bed. There’s peace in there somewhere. And
that’s why I think we want to be more organized – it brings a sense of
accomplishment, peace and well-being.
This is an interesting
website full of checklists, ideas, and challenges. Here's an interesting
commentary about the site: I find it to be unusually cluttered and busy. I'm
not sure I want to take advice from them or not.
I expected this to be a
typical store website. Instead I was pleasantly surprised to find information
and suggestions in a well-designed format. Granted, their options for getting
organized are centered around using their products. But that is to be expected.
Here are three topics I found from an Internet search about getting organized:
10 ways to de-clutter,
100
organizing tips, and
1000+ ways to get organized.
Really? Who's got the time to read a thousand tips? Makes me want to
hyperventilate!
What about spiritual
organization. (I'm assuming there is such a thing.)
Do you plan your quiet
times, Bible study times, prayer times or corporate worship times? If you take
the attitude that you’ll do them when you get around to it, then you’ll
probably never do them or be sporadic about them at best. It’s kind of like
when I see an old friend and say, “Let’s get together sometime for lunch.”
Unless we break out our calendars and schedule a lunch appointment right then,
it won’t happen. We have good intentions but life just takes over and before we
know it a month has gone by and then we just forget about it. Our relationship
with God shouldn’t be like that. We should decide when we are going to read and
study and pray and worship and do it.
Lord,
help me to use my time more wisely so that I can get better organized. You are
not a God of chaos but of order. Help me to be more like you. By the same
token, help me not to go overboard and to get so hung up on organization and
planning that I get bent out of shape and miss the whole point – being at
peace.
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