Get Organized Now
Write It Down

Writing things down is a big first step if you want to get organized now.

I write in my Planner Book nearly every day. I make small checklists and large checklists all the time to make sure I get the groceries and supplies I need and finish the projects at work. I just do not want to clog up my memory with things like that. I want my full intellectual ability for other things rather than if I need milk and bread.

I think that most people will go to great lengths to avoid writing. It is almost as if they are afraid of using lead, ink and paper.

I remember when I was 16 years old trying to understand how the gear shift on the steering column worked. My mom, dad and grandparents tried to explain how you pull it forward and go up and down, and then how you push it back and up and down for the other gears. I never understood it.

Sometimes I would get it in the right gear and sometimes I wouldn't.

Luckily we mostly had automatic transmissions; otherwise I would have ruined more cars.

Years later someone said that the gears were arranged in the shape of a capital H. When I actually wrote the H down and then drew where reverse, first, second and third were on the H, did I finally understand. I wrote it down.

I come from a mixed background. Mostly Norwegian, some Swedish, some English and some German. For years I asked my parents and grandparents how the ratio worked. They tried to explain it to me but it never made sense.

Finally, after about two decades of not getting it I wrote it down. One grandfather was all Swedish. That grandmother was all Norwegian. So my mom is half Swedish and half Norwegian. My other grandfather was half Norwegian, half German. That grandmother is all English. So my dad is half English, 1/4 Norwegian, 1/4 German. In order to tell what I am I finally did the math. I am half of what my mom is and half of what my dad is. I never understood until I wrote it down. It took me over twenty years to get organized now about my ancestry.

I can remember being extremely nervous and anxious before every football and basketball game in high school. Not because of wondering if I would play well or if I would get injured for life, but if I would have all my gear packed. I would pack it and repack it and try to go over in my mind if that is all I needed. I wouldn't be able to relax at all.

I could have just written a list and checked off things as I put them in the bag, that would have been the easy way, the get organized now way.

That is the way I do everything today. I get organized now every day for whatever I am doing by writing things down. I understand things better and never get nervous about forgetting anything.

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