Tying It All Together

I believe there are more important things in organization than others - they are the things you can never get back. They include:

* Time with your kids. (This is not mutually exclusive - your children are capable of helping you get organized.)

*Journals, personal histories, and scrapbooks. These are things that can't be done if they are procrastinated. Children grow, people change, memories fade and disappear. Figure out a way to organize and preserve them while you still remember them.

BUT, we can still work on other things too. The more we recognize the unimportant things and patterns in our life and remove them, the more things we'll have gone FOREVER - freeing up our time, energy and enthusiasm for the things we really want in our lives.

A couple other thoughts:

Just because you're organized, doesn't mean you'll always have a clean house - you may never have a clean house, but when you're organization is down deep, you ALWAYS have the potential to have a clean house.

Being organized also doesn't mean you'll be able to run faster than you are able, it means you don't have to run with road blocks in your way.