The End of November

One of the marketing people that crossed my path told me I should write monthly tips for my website about reorganizing. In an attempt to provide him with publishable fodder, I looked at the months of the year in terms of what was particularly relevant in terms of reorganizing. (My website has since been removed and put "under construction," a dubious state to say the least). While the site is being built and published, the monthly ideas will be here. I hope you will enjoy reading it, and offering your own advice/experiences.

There are two friends whom I speak to very frequently. We have all found that this November has been a time of administration, like it or not. The dramatic change in earlier sunset times leads us to need to finish things that require daylight by 4.15pm. Aside from accomplishments, it is colder and darker, which can certainly affect our moods. People and appointments twenty or thirty minutes away which seemed easily accessible in September or even in this pretty warm October may now seem chore-ish in this chilly and dark-early November. And that won't change for awhile.

The holidays in this country hang over us, even those who do not celebrate them. Thanksgiving dinners with families are one delight, (we hope), within a litany that includes holiday traffic, overspending, and overeating. Whether or not we participate in this ourselves, we are surrounded by plenty of heaviness. Christmas (and Chanukah) just a short month, and New Year's a week later away offers little reprieve.

So, what can we do about this? We cannot change the sunset time (although Congress can and did), nor the weather (though arguably we are doing so with our emissions, but that is for another blog), so we must make do. How?

Reorganizing, that's how.

You're all probably very "busy" now, a phrase I seem to hear more and more these days. Okay, here is your chance to feel less busy, and to lift the weight you are contributing to those around you.

Imagine December 20th, twenty five days from now. Take a deep breath for the count of four, hold it for four, and blow it out slowly for four. Now think. What is the one thing you would like to accomplish by then? We'll call it X. I'm sure there are many, but let's narrow it down to one....no, just one! Got it? Okay.

Go get a writing utensil and a biggish piece of paper. (Oh, how I sound like my mother!)

1. Write X at the bottom of the paper.

2. Write all the things that need to get done in order to accomplish X, even if they seem tiny.

3. Review list and cross out anything that does not pertain directly to X.

4. Add anything you may have thought of, however small.

5. Circle what you can do today, if anything, preferably something small.

6. Go do it!

Good luck, we'll talk tomorrow.

Off to follow my own advice,

Leah

If you'd like to let me know how it goes or would like support in your reorganizing endeavour, please email me at leah@leahfisch.com.