The key to my simplification is the ability to achieve and remain organizationally efficient. That is why I am taking this new opportunity to reset with the cleanup of my digital life and constant burden… files.
I have a habit of hoarding files for the sake of the belief that I will always have a need for something at some point. It doesn’t happen often, but you never know. This approach has served me well to date both in digital form as well as physical form. Just ask the bins of cables I have in the other room neatly organized by type of cable and labeled appropriately.
Is it a form of OCD? Maybe. just a little but not too much. I just find by knowing that everything has its place makes my life that much simpler to navigate. No fumbling around to find things when I know I put them somewhere. That is so damn frustrating to me. I also find that those who make it through life not having the same dependency somewhat annoying. In my day it used to be referred to as “living in a pig pen.”
At least that is how I see it. For me, everything has to have an order to it. That is a blessing and a curse. Most days it is a sheer blessing, but being human we have one common trait. That is that our view of things can shift over time. What made sense two years ago, may not make sense today. So I find that I live in that evolving state over time and slowly t things begin to get disorganized and my thought process slips little by little. That is where I am right now.
So tonight, I am spending time going into the end of another year, looking at my files and folders and determining if there is a better way that matches my thought process at this point in time. Some would find it exhausting to go through this every few years. For me, I find it somewhat therapeutic. When I emerge on the other side of the exercise, I feel more productive, energetic and ready to take on the next few years.
I just wonder if I am the only one out here that goes through that?
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