A Place for Everything

One of the first things that many people notice about me is that I'm organized. They hear me explain an idea or they see me run an event and are amazed at the details that I've thought through and how smoothly things go.

However, there is another side of me that really struggles with putting things away where they go. For one thing, I'm often too lazy to put things away. For another, I actually prefer having everything in sight because sometimes when everything's put away, I can't remember where I put it.

You've probably heard the phrase, "A place for everything, and everything in it's place." I have not cared much for this wisdom until recently because I was just focusing on the second half. I had not been interested in putting things in their place for the two reasons I listed above and the fact that several things did not have an official place to be in.

Tonight I spent about 2 hours finding official places for many of my items that had previously been scattered about. During the process it hit me that something can only be in its place if it has a place to be in. Wow--how profound!

As I write this blog entry, I am resting from my efforts over the past 2 hours and pleased at where everything is. I have high motivation to maintain the order that I created tonight because if I know where I can find things, I'll want to put them there.