I had a minor victory last weekend when I was asked if I had a measuring tape. I walked over to one area of storage bins and put my hands on three different sizes...immediately, without shuffling or moving anything. I could just put my hands right on them. When finished, I put the one that was chosen right back where it belongs. According to Eileen Roth in a brief article called Get Organized to Save Time and Money = Enjoy Your Life, “Your future success will be determined more by your being organized than by any other single action you take.” I can already tell that by organizing, I'll save money by re-purchasing supplies and equipment I use frequently but cannot locate when I need them.
One casualty however, remember the bird's nest I didn't know what to do with? In the shuffle to sort items off the top of one of the workbenches, the bird's nest was knocked to the ground, ripped apart, and the egg broken. The interior was dehydrated. So, that pretty answered what to do...it ended up in the trash.
In the end I am left to wonder: if a person makes no decision, does time and circumstances make the decisions? That seems to be the case in this instance. It makes me wonder how many people let events around them make choices that could be made personally? How often to people abdicate the responsibility of deciding?
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