Secret to getting it all--make someone else do it! :)

Yesterday I finished my client deliverable and took a break. But you know how it goes for most of us. Once we take that break we realize all those things we had been avoiding. The cleaning, the tidying up, the wired mangle running across the living room... And there goes the break as we then start the cleaning, the tidying, the separating of the mangled wires in the room.

There are some people who are quite comfortable with making living their work vision a priority. But making living your work vision a reality a priority often does not mean you want to give up having a beautiful organized space and you probably want to keep all the other wheels of the process turning. You want those new business cards followed up with. You want that email cleared. And gosh even the tidying up needs some logic which a cleaning service may not always put in.

We may say its brainless, its meditative. But there is nothing like having all these things done and being open to a few hours of serendipity. Here's the trick--we don't have to do it ourselves. I recently hired an assistant who takes pride in organizing my life even though her own can sometimes get very chaotic. I guess its just easier to see what helps someone else's life than your own. Also most of us pride ourselves in a job done to our internal satisfaction. Her internal satisfaction in seeing my life organized is so huge that she makes sure that the ball is never dropped (overall) . I love it!

I have an organized living room, work space, closet. And soon all the furniture to keep it that way without spending the countless brainless hours taking care of these things. If I were at this alone all this probably would not have happened or taken many months if not a year to get there.

Thank you Nora from the bottom of my heart!