Organization

Woot.

Praise be to The Lord God, for He has gifted me with great aid as I made the attempt to get myself organized.

I'm not sure what "getting organized" means to other people, but to me, it's very, very significant. I have very poor short-term memory. So, if something's out of place when I go to look for it, not only may I have trouble finding it, I may forget altogether that I was even looking for it in the first place, because of how my mind works.

For me, getting organized means getting my life into the rhythm that it is supposed to be in. It means getting it into harmony with the order that God desires to see in my life.

There is, of course, always a way to go "too far" when organizing yourself, some people suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and are basically psychologically affected by "the small stuff." While I tend to be called OCD from time to time when I organize myself, the fact is that I'm nowhere near being OCD. Because while I prefer to be organized, indeed, I have a very STRONG preference for it, I am not BOTHERED by the times when I am not organized to that degree, nor am I bothered by when I am completely and utterly disorganized.

My disorganization is probably in large part due to the fact that I've moved back and forth from my college town, Athens, so many times in the last 5 or so years. When you have to completely destroy, and then completely reassemble, your entire system of organization, and everything else in your life for that matter, that frequently, then even if it's only for a few years, you tend to adapt in a way that makes it easy to convince yourself that you don't really need to reassemble your systems of organization in any kind of hurry, because you know you'll probably just have to disassemble them again soon enough anyway.

That was way too long of a sentence. Jedi Master William Parker would probably be displeased, if he weren't so easygoing and understanding of my casual speech-mimicking method of journal-entry/blog-entry.

Anywho.

This post is just to say that I am, for the first time in a long time, developing habits, patterns, and organizational systems that allow my mind and thus myself to function at a far, FAR greater efficiency than I probably ever have before.

Most of my systems of organization are based on automation, or, the lack of a need to consciously think about something. The goal being to make it so that I need to waste as little mindspace doing something non-creative as possible.

Designing these systems of automation and organization are awesome. I love it. Maybe I'll design them to such a great extent that I'll provide them to the entire world, the followers of Jesus (Yeshua) especially, and the entire world will be able to function at such higher levels of efficiency. Not having to do stuff from scratch in your head is just really, really great. It frees your mind to think about so many more important things. One application of these tools and habits that I believe would serve some of the most good is for young-ish parents, and really just parents in general. Being able to manage the chaos by any means is surely a welcome one, but with these methods of "thoughtless automation of everyday tasks" they can focus so much more on enjoying their lives with their children and far less on what needs to get done, how to get it done, and whether or not that can definitely get done, based on what they don't yet know for sure.

Well, I'm off to go reap the glorious, God-gifted and God-blessed rewards of having some time to myself that I don't have to worry about possibly being used for some other, more productive activity. :D

Take care, and until next time (and even past next time) God bless!
~Angel