jamesridgers

Don’t Agonize; Organize

It’s 4:09PM on Friday. It’s the last day in the office before a short business trip and then the Thanksgiving holiday. Ergo, it’s the last day in the office for 9 days. Your inbox is out of control and your phone has been ringing off the hook all afternoon with “can you just…” and “before you leave…” requests. It’s chaotic and out of control. What do you do?

If you’re anything like me, you’ll have a tendency to sink in to a moment of anxiety, decide that you can’t do it all and thus won’t do a thing, and simply let the train wreck happen. Then, momentarily, you’ll realise that this is a bad idea, and you’ll getting organized.

With the number of free-to-use tools available today, there’s no excuse for poor organization. Even when original organization has disintegrated, and the order has become chaos, there’s no excuse for not get reorganized.

Don’t panic.

Don’t stress.

Don’t walk away.

Take a deep breath, keep calm, and carry on. With proper prioritization, workload structure, placing focus on the important and not the urgent, anxiety can give way to productivity quickly. Bottom line: Don’t agonize; organize.