Deep Trouble with Organizing! (saved portion of the lost blog)
I've been struggling to get my house organized, my computers organized, my life organized...
"Organizing a 21st century life = Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
The genesis of Operation Organization in four easy steps:
Step 1: Writing my first blog entry!
Completing my first blog entry heralded a new era in personal productivity for me. Until writing that entry, I never fully understood how I interact with software. I never understood why I had so much trouble with computers. I never understood some of the underlying causes of ongoing frustration that have plagued my life. But no more!
Step 2: Giving myself permission to use ONLY THE SOFTWARE THAT WORKS FOR ME!
After writing that entry, I could see, in aqua blue, black and white, the ways that my associative mind works. I could stop beating myself up for being 'dumb' in some way, and start giving myself permission to seek out and use ONLY THE SOFTWARE THAT FITS THE WAY MY MIND WORKS.
Step 3: --End of original blog entry, boo hoo!
Step 3: After using OmniOutliner for a while, I find 43 folders, which brings me to Getting Things Done, which revolutionizes my mind!
See my OmniGraffle on how it revolutionized me to understand the difference between open and closed loops: (in last blog entry). (I'm working on publishing it in a more readable format, but I'm new to Sandvox, so it may take some time).
Step 4: Operation Organization is born!
Today, with my life coach, I tried to start talking about how I want to organize my work spaces more effectively. As we talked, huge piles of language built up around us, until I felt like I had created the Pentagon of Language about Organization. It had wing after wing, layer upon layer... perhaps this imbroglio of language was as complicated as the Franklin Cover-Up, the PVC situation, or trying to understand how fires melt steel buildings ... take your pick, we live in a world of confusion and cover-ups, don't we? But I digress. I realized there are a massive number of variables involved in a thorough, dynamic, creative, committed overhaul of how I organize my life. After reading Getting Things Done, I KNOW that how I organize my life is the basis of my personal productivity. And productivity is my middle name!
Intellectual work ahead!
All these variables meant only one thing: I need to do some very deep thinking work about the issues, and there are too many issues to hold in my mind at one time. It is time for either a blog entry, an OmniGraffle, an OmniOutliner document, or all of the above! I think I'll start with an Outliner list. But, tomorrow. As usual in the world of writing blog entries, it's way past my bed time.