YOU CAN BE TOO ORGANIZED

Some of you are a hot mess. You need to get your act together. You need to create some order out of the chaos. You need to get organized. Can I hear an “Amen” or even an “Oh me.” Here’s the key, I don't want you to get OVER organized. If you are OVER organized it can paralyze you.

Life happens. Stuff gets messed up. If you have to keep everything perfect, then THAT becomes your full-time job and there goes what you are called to do right out the window.

Here is the secret. Be organized in the things that matter. People are more important than projects. Prayer is more important than paper. I don't care whether your miscellaneous notes are filed or piled. Truthfully, you can find whatever you want online. Filing is almost obsolete. I don't care how neat or how messy your supply closet is. Just keep everything off your desktop. Your desktop should be the place for the most important thing you are working on. There are times when the only thing on your desktop should be your open Bible.

One secret to success is to focus your activities and attention on the areas that matter. Everything that doesn't matter can be put in a big box and set aside to go through while you are watching old movies on a very rainy late night. If you keep all of the things that don’t truly matter constantly organized and up to date it could hurt you rather than help you. There is only so much time and energy to go around. Over-organization can become a distraction from the things that will truly make a difference.