Just Thoughts and Nothing Else

Sometimes it's hard to organize your life, your house, your job, your time, your kids.  The juggling act that most people do sometimes becomes overwhelming, especially if you are a person that thinks about doing rather than actually accomplishing the doing!
I remember personally the times I would watch people when they move and then have to unpack from the move.  Some people would keep saying, I have to do this or that and then walk in a circle and say it again a few minutes later and still nothing is accomplished.
It doesn't mean they aren't the "Doers" it just means they are the "Thinkers" and don't know how to escape the thousands of thoughts they are thinking about on how to get the job done!  So they talk and think a lot about the task at hand while the "Doers" don't give much thought to how and why, just "get er done"
Now I don't really talk that way, but I thought it was cute when I heard it from someone quite some time ago.  Those thinkers will get the job done sooner or later, but the route they take sometimes frustrates them and sometimes so much so that they can't get things done and they wait for the doers to take over or tell them what to do next even though they knew in their heads that's what had to happen but didn't know where to start.  I say, "Start at the beginning and you'll never get lost, so just start" js

Never the less, I think you have to figure out what it is that you want to organize.  If it's your home, then all I can say to you is rather than walk through the whole house trying to get the entire thing organized at one time I suggest that you go into one room and figure out what's needed and what's not just like they do on those getting organized shows because they really do understand clutter.  But knowing that you can't do it all at one time and that you need to take baby steps when trying to accomplish things is half the battle.  One room at a time, and throw away or give away or donate all that is not needed and that just might be put to better use in someone else s hands.

Now if you are talking about organizing your life with allowing time with the kids, time with your job, time with your husband/wife, then it all starts with prioritizing.  Don't give it too much thought because then you become just a thinker about things rather than the doer of things.  Of course there will be unexpected things that will come up and change your plans a little but if you give each day time for the "unexpected" then you will always have time to do what is on your expected list.
First make a list of the things that are really valuable to you and that make sense.  I want to read a story to my kids, or I want to sit on the porch with my husband and a cup of coffee and just have a great talk about our day.  I want to sit in a hot bath and just reflect on my day.  I want to sit at the dinner table with the whole family and not be interrupted with phone calls, texting and TV.  Just a nice family dinner even if it's just once a week where everyone sits and listens to the rest of the family and what's been happening in their worlds all week.

So if it's on your list, you can accomplish anything because you have all the necessary tools to take charge of your hectic life, but only if you wish it to be so!  I just think, nothing happens unless you make it happen.  You must be a doer mixed with a thinker to accomplish anything.  I think list makers get things accomplished because it's a haunting of sorts because they know that list is there and they must get it done!  "If I don't get this done, everyone will see that I didn't do what I said I was going to do"  I think it's the competitive thing going on with themselves.  But it's truly not a bad thing, just something that some people need to make it happen! 

If you think about it, aren't people who make things happen in their lives for the good, the ones that have set goals for themselves and because of their competitive nature, they must accomplish that or they will in their eyes be failures.
How I feel in life and this is just a personal thing, "If you reach for the moon, but can only catch a few stars then you are already a winner,"js  Setting goals in my mind, is the same as long as you leave that margin of error open.  I am not saying that you can't get that moon, I'm just saying don't be so hard on yourself if you don't!
Determination and persistence will help you get where you want to go.  It affords you to make the time to do the things that are important to you, because someday they will be the things that have made your "great memories" throughout your lifetime. It will be the fact that you took the time to notice that your infant just learned how to turn a doorknob without you even showing them.  Or maybe it's the first time you see your little girl put on a necklace and you didn't even teach her that either.  You say to yourself, WOW how did they know how to do that?  But your memories won't be the fact that you've rushed through your day just to get through it and you missed all those moments.  Those rushed days won't even seem important at all, and you might not even remember them or why they were so important at the time!  I always think it's about taking the time to smell the roses, listen to the sounds of life and children and having the gift of knowing true love at least once in your lifetime.

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It's sort of like dieting.  If you reach for the impossible, you sometimes disappoint yourself and never get there, but if you reach for something realistic when you start and increase it every three months or so, it's like setting short term goals for you to reach much easier.

Organizing your life and what's important is about the road you travel to get to your destination.  The road might be bumpy and curvy but at the end of it, what you expected would be there might not be anymore, and without the "margin of error" built into your plans, you will be greatly disappointed when you reach it.  You will not have been flexible enough to know that it's okay and you can just rearrange a little.

So in my opinion only, it's about knowing what you want even if it seems mumble jumble at times, but to organize what's important to you will be your greatest reward in the end.

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