Hello,

Welcome to the Get Organized Community. I am encouraged by the fact that you are making an effort to gain balance and order in your life. We live in a fast-paced, whitewater world where many activities demand our attention. We can even become addicted to urgent matters that we allow our lives to become out of balance and neglect that which is important.  

As you focus your efforts on getting organized, my suggestion to you is to consider what is most important to you and then organize around it. In this way, you will be putting first things first. To use an analogy, you don’t want to be the person who climbs the ladder of success only to arrive at the top and realize that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. If you will focus on what is most important to you, and then organize around it, your efforts will be rewarded.

If organizing your life or an aspect of your life seems overwhelming, start small. Set a small goal and accomplish it. Then set a larger goal and accomplish it—then another and another. Little by little you will develop self-mastery until your sense of personal honor becomes greater than your mood. You have the power to make such choices and literally become the creative force of your own life.

Sincerely,

Dr. Stephen R. Covey

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