My private Instant Message conversation
I've copied a fun and provocative conversation that I had with a friend and Joint Venture Partner via Instant Messenger software.
Obviously the point here is to consider in what ways it is relevant to your own choices, or lack of them…
I call it:
'eye in the storm to
organize yourself'
OrganizeDr.: are you going to talk to Lynn McTaggart soon, or i can?
Jamie: soon, i just need to feel settled
OrganizeDr.: but do you really think you will?
OrganizeDr.: i mean until you're in the other Holborn flat in 2 months
Jamie: i honestly don't know yet
Jamie: it's all so up in the air
OrganizeDr.: what is?
Jamie: life!
OrganizeDr.: what do you mean, exactly?
OrganizeDr.: bring it back down from the air.
Jamie: i mean moving around all the time, packing, unpacking etc
Jamie: yes wish I could catch it all and sort it out!
OrganizeDr.: let the flurry of environmental conditions whirl around you, whilst your consciousness remains in the quiet eye of the tornado, choose your focus and purpose, and take the simple obvious steps that are next
OrganizeDr.: what do you think?
OrganizeDr.: easier said than done?
OrganizeDr.: well obviously, but too difficult to do?
Jamie: hmmm well I'm all for staying centered while the tornado whirls around
OrganizeDr.: so never mind the baggage and bags, that will get done
OrganizeDr.: there must be a few things important to your actual development
Jamie: it's doable but not easily learned in a day!
OrganizeDr.: there's nothing to learn
OrganizeDr.: listen to your heart, sit in quietude, right out a little list of priorities, and get it done
OrganizeDr.: that's it
Jamie: yes, sensible
OrganizeDr.: just obvious
OrganizeDr.: and easy
OrganizeDr.: how long would it take to arrange the mailing with lynn?
OrganizeDr.: what actually needs to be done?
Jamie: if so obvious then why so many people all lost & helpless?
OrganizeDr.: because they say to themselves that they're up in the air, and so they never look at the next two steps in front of them
Jamie: hmmm
OrganizeDr.: which comes down to the person, not the circumstances
Jamie: yes
OrganizeDr.: obvious
OrganizeDr.: and we think things are more complicated than they are
OrganizeDr.: hence we look for complicated answers
OrganizeDr.: we're loonytunes
OrganizeDr.: the answers are simple and obvious, and the steps are easy
OrganizeDr.: go with the flow
OrganizeDr.: in the quiet eye of the tornado
Jamie: hmmmm very succinctly put
–end of conversation–
Ultimately, you must define what success means to you.
What would it be like to organize yourself?
I myself lived with the pain of failure for a long time until I realized that success is something we must choose to live moment to moment.
This creates the initial requirements to organize yourself.
The choice must be made to live an organized life.
When you make that choice to organize yourself and your life, magic seems to occur.
Perhaps you already made it and hence found this article, or perhaps you are just beginning now by thinking of how Jamie's experience compares to your own.
As you read that dialogue, and you might want to skim over it again, did you see yourself reflected in any personal situations, especially at the points I highlighted?
In this bizarre anti-civilisation we live in on Earth we cause our own failures when we allow difficult or trying situations to distract us from what we hold as important.
Jamie was in the middle of moving twice, and allowed that to sabotage all of his important creative projects.
It doesn't need to be like that. But without a system or self organization, that is how things turn out.
To organize yourself requires firstly making a definite choice to organize yourself, your life, your home, your circumstances, and to make choice to not let difficult circumstances stop you from activities that are highly important to you.
I invite you to make that initial choice in the journey to organize yourself.
Originally posted 2009-09-24 13:53:42. Republished by Old Post Promoter
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