Organize IT

Last week I wrote about the ‘Someday’ disease. It’s the syndrome that runs rampant in modern society. Millions of people put off their lives, goals and dreams all the time, saying they will do it someday. But when exactly? When conditions are perfect? When you  have enough experience and knowledge? In that previous post I discussed how those beliefs are little more than excuses. Conditions are never perfect so why not start now and correct course as you go along?

I will soon be compiling my next ebook to accompany the Clutter 101 and Productivity Tips releases. Organize IT has been going since 2006 now, and there are over 500 posts. However, the problem with blogs is the older content often gets pushed down and forgotten about. There are a few decent posts from the early days of Organize IT that hardly anyone read, and that’s what has inspired me to do this next ebook, a best of 2006/2007 compilation.

Someday in the future I want to get out of my apartment and get a house complete with a garden. I’ll be able to play my music as loud as I want and have somewhere to kick a football around. Someday, maybe in a few years time, I want to learn a new language and write a book. Someday. Maybe… If this sounds like the sort of thing you say, a quick trip to the productivity doctor would probably reveal that you’re suffering from a bout of Someday disease.

This is a guest post by Jo Walters of 250 Things While I’m 25.

On my 25th birthday I decided to spend the whole of the next year coming up with, and doing, 250 random things. I wanted to have some interesting stories to tell, to try new things and force myself to get off my sofa once in a while, so I came up with my silly challenge…

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I try to avoid thinking about luck, and just generally try not to use the word nowadays. To me, it applies some sort of deity granting fortune and fame to one person and misfortune and ill health to another based on some mystical roll of the dice. In other words, it removes all personal responsibility. If something bad happens to you, well, you’re were just unlucky – nothing to learn, no lessons to be taken from the experience. And if you were lucky with something, that detracts from whatever you had done to achieve it.