Organize IT

It’s the end of the year in a couple of days so it’s traditional to do one big recap of the last twelve months. I’ve said this before but with blogs, especially ones that get updated regularly, useful posts can quickly get pushed back by newer content. That’s why I believe this recap is a great opportunity to re-introduce some of my favorite posts from the year. Let me know if you find it useful! As ever, thanks to all my readers for continuing to read my posts and comment on them. Next Monday I will return to my regular posting schedule (if I’ve recovered from the hangover that is) so I hope you have a good new year!

I think for many of us (correct me if I’m wrong), each holiday season and new year represents the ideal time for a little introspection (I’m doing it with the blog, please leave your thoughts). It’s a chance to really recharge your batteries, figure out what you want in life and set goals for achieving it all… in theory anyways. You will probably read plenty of articles about how 2009 can be Your Best Year Yet but how many times have you heard that phrase before? What does it even mean?

It’s almost the end of the year, and seeing it’s a given that every new year should have a little introspection, I want to once again do a short post to give my readers the chance to shape how Organize IT will hopefully evolve in 2009. The blog has seen a lot of growth over the last twelve months and it’s nice to know that those little thoughts I occasionally have that develop into full blog posts are actually read (and enjoyed I hope) by so many people. Thankyou!

100% you say? That’s crazy! That’s like double how good your life is now, right? Don’t worry, there is logic behind the madness. Consider that there are essentially ten areas of your life you can focus on. You can’t put 100% effort into all of them obviously. However, regular readers will no doubt know how I’m a big fan of breaking work down so by having a small goal for each of those ten areas in your life, the results all (theoretically) add up. That’s 10% energy on a goal that improves your health, 10% on one that boosts your relationship, and so on. Below I’ve detailed the ten areas of your life you can focus on, with some ideas on small goals you can do. Further suggestions welcome!

One recent post that seemed to get a reaction was the discussion of my filing system problems. I asked you all to share your own filing setup and I got many responses (if you are having a filing dilemma of your own be sure to check out all the comments on that post, it should give you a few ideas). I’ve shied away from doing my filing on my computer because the prospect of scanning and tagging something every time I got mail went against what I was trying to achieve. However Marina Martin’s approach was very persuasive.