Just Ruthie

I’m no organization expert here, so I’ll start this morning’s ramble by saying that what I’m doing appears to be working for me. I’m just plodding along on a wing and a prayer here. Can you even plod on a wing? Somehow I don’t think so, but flying or soaring or any of those wing-like actions seems much too graceful and refined for the way I’m moving right now. Anyways, what works for me might not work for you. That’s what I’m trying to say here. So if you try any of my handy-dandy organizational tips here and they don’t give you the results you were looking for… don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Now that that’s out of the way…

One of the hardest things I’ve had to learn is how to let go of things that have outlived their usefulness in my life, and by extension, in my business. It’s probably a good measure of how truly screwed up I am that I have no problem letting go of people and moving on. But when it comes to my things, I’m not sure if it’s the historian in me that wants to preserve material goods as a record of better times or what, they might as well be crazy-glued to the shelves, the closets, and my psyche because that’s how hard they are for me to let go.

So it’s really cool, and a pretty big milestone for me, that this morning I’m putting the physical office reorganization on hold because I have to move some website content around. Because as part of my commitment to getting organized and moving forward, I’ve finally ditched a couple of domains that deserved to be put to rest years ago.

It was like saying goodbye to an old friend this morning when the email came announcing that they were officially expired. But at the same time, it felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders too because I held on to them for way longer than was really necessary.

They say (no, I don’t know exactly who says) that when you clean out the old you make room for new things to enter your life. I’m starting to see how that’s possible, and I have a feeling that a little task of reorganizing my office space is going to have a much larger impact on my life than I thought it would when I started.