Growth Online		 The Power of Personal Organization
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by Roy Posner

Organizing Our Lives to Make Life Respond

My focus in this essay is how organization can bring about enormous success for the individual. My first observation is that organization expresses at three levels in our lives: at the physical/material, the vital, and the mental. For example, when I clean up by room or office, or put the books in my library in order, I am engaging in physical organization. When I reorient my emotions, feeling, and attitudes towards another person, or develop the will and desire to achieve something particularly important to me, I am engaged in vital organization. When I organize my work schedule into a set of achievable goals and to dos, or turn facts of information into new ideas, concepts, and insights, I am engaged in mental organization.

My second premise is that any effort to raise our level of organization -- be it physical, vital, mental -- will not only bring about practical results, but life response ones as well, as sudden good fortune will follow those efforts.

Below I have listed several methods of raising one’s level of organization, and how doing so will elicit powerful life response results. Each approach is accompanied by one or more true-life incidents, illustrating the startling association.

 

-- Cleanliness, Orderliness, Systematic Functioning

Perhaps the most fundamental form of organization is taking to higher levels of cleanliness. Over the years I have seen that serious attempt to raise the level of cleanliness in our environment will not only produce physically pleasing results, but life response results as well -- including the sudden onset of more money, higher sales, new opportunities, and other forms of positive benefit.

For example, one man I know of got down on his hands and knees one day to clean out the grit and grime in his refrigerator. At the very instant he rose from that effort, he received a call notifying him that he had secured several months of new work -- when only a moment before he had absolutely nothing scheduled, placing a great strain on his financial position.

In another case, a consultant suggested to a manager of a company that his staff clean up every trace of particle used to produce carbon brushes used in the auto industry. As soon as that effort was completed, a customer suddenly arrived from out of nowhere, and purchased his firm’s entire carbon brush needs from that supplier!

In yet a third incident, a businessperson decided to clean his slow-moving stocks of inventory in response to a suggestion by that same wise consultant. Thereafter, (once again) a buyer suddenly appeared out of nowhere and purchased all the dead stocks! He then went on to buy an additional six months worth of the merchant’s inventory! That is the startling life response power of taking to greater levels of cleanliness in life.

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Though taking to higher levels of cleanliness can attract wonderful results, cleanliness reaches its apex and perfection when it is accompanied by orderliness -- i.e. by putting things in their right place, sorting things out, arranging them in a logical manner, categorizing and dividing objects for easy access and retrieval, etc.

For example, if a retail business selling to the public not only gathers together the tools and inventory strewn here and there in its stock yard, but places them in their proper locations for easy access and retrieval, not only will efficiency be increased, but life is likely to respond to that effort. Likewise, if an individual not only cleans the papers, folders, and books scattered about on a table in an office, but also organizes them in an orderly and systematic fashion, life will respond to that effort as well -- whether ion the forms of more sales, work, money, or opportunity.

Where cleanliness makes objects presentable and useful, and orderliness places them in recognizable patterns, categories, et al for easy access, systemization goes much further -- organizing them in their proper time sequence; and coordinating and integrating them with one another for greater efficiency, possibility, and results. Like cleanliness and orderliness, higher levels of systematic functioning also tend to evoke powerful life response results.

For example, one company put in considerable time and effort to develop a software product, but after several months had not yet generated any sales. Then someone decided to reorganize parts of the program for greater consistency, ease of use, and integration with its other parts. The next morning, the business owner was stunned when the first order for the product came in over the web!  

 
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-- Maximum Utilization of a Resource

Let’s face it; we live in a throwaway society. We use something, and when that resource is depleted, we discard it for a replacement. In these situations, we are normally more concerned with the results that come from using the resource, than any interest in extracting the maximum use from it. However, if we were to become more conscious, and make full use of that resource, not only will we increase efficiency, productivity, and save money, but we are likely to attract sudden good fortune; whether in the form of more money, increased sales, unexpected opportunities -- even more of that resource!

For example, one company that was about to run out of an essential raw material required for the manufacturing of welding electrodes discovered that their only supplier was shutting down. In response to this challenge, the manager decided that not a single particle of the resource should be wasted. To that end, even the shop floor was swept clean in order to garner the smallest traces of the resource. Remarkably, two days later, the managing director of a company that supplied the resource suddenly arrived from a thousand miles away to visit the unit. On recognizing the manager’s problem, he had his own supplier immediately dispatch the needed material directly to the desperate company!

That is the life response power of making maximum use of any resource, down to the nth degree.

In another situation, a consultant advised the proprietor of a company to clean a machine, despite the fact that it was not being used -- for production or any other purpose. Though he questioned the utility (and sanity!) of this advice, the proprietor took up the consultant’s suggestion. A day or two later, the proprietor’s cousin arrived on the scene, and was attracted to the newly cleaned machine. He asked the proprietor if he could have it for a new enterprise he was contemplating. In the months that followed, the machine turned into a veritable cash cow, producing substantial income for both the cousin and the proprietor!

The moral of this story is the same as the previous: when you make full use of a resource rather than toss it or waste it, you attract positive circumstance. Thus, any time you find yourself in a pressing situation, consider if there is wastage of any sort involving money, people, energy, time, materials, and machines. If you then make the effort to derive maximum benefit from those resources, you will quickly attract startling positive conditions. 

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-- Organizing Information through the Power of Mind

Though we can organize the material world outside ourselves, we can also organize various aspects of our own inner being, including our habits, feelings, emotions, thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and aspirations. Doing so will always attract positive conditions from the world around us. Here I would like to focus on one particular aspect of our inner being: how organizing information in your mind -- i.e. turning facts into clear ideas and concepts for greater understanding -- can evoke marvelous responses from life.

One day a man racked his brains to understand a difficult metaphysical concept. Though he did not succeed in his efforts, the next morning he received an email from an associate who provided him with the complete knowledge he was grappling with -- including the details of every one of its finer points!

Moreover, the other person had no idea he had been thinking along these lines; or for that matter on any subject matter. As he read through the material, he was stunned by the miracle that had taken place. This was no coincidence, but life responding to his attempt to organize and make hay of complex information.

In another episode, an individual used reason and logic to reorganize a series of concepts on a topic covered at his organization’s web site. (The site covers hundreds of subjects on personal growth.) His goal was to make the topic simpler for his readers to understand. A moment later (and before the changes were posted to the server), he received an email inquiring into that very same topic. Not only was it the only email in his inbox, it was also the first inquiry the organization ever received on that topic after years of it being online!

That is the life response power we elicit when we make the extra effort to organize thought.


-- Ultimate Organization: Following the Process of Accomplishment

While cleanliness, orderliness, systemization, maximum utilization, idea development, et al are specific approaches, the ultimate power of personal organization is to consciously follow a process to direct the future course of your life. By following the “process of creation,” we can use all of the powers of organization to move our life forward, more often than not coming about through instances of good fortune.

By first envisioning our goal, devising various strategies to bring it about, and then organizing our time and effort through a plan of action, we use powers of organization in a comprehensive way to move our lives forward. This can apply to an activity such as a day’s outing, a project we are about to engage in, or changing the direction of our lives.

For example, one individual decided that instead of merely dashing out on a weekend outing to take photographs along the bay shoreline, he would first plan his trip -- including bringing the right items, plotting out which park he wanted to go to, what was the best direction to take, and so forth. As a result, every conceivable thing went right for him that day.

In another instance, when a woman implemented a 30-day plan to secure a new job position -- also involving the planning out of a goal and the various strategies and action to dos to make it come about -- she very quickly attracted her first full-time position in nearly a decade of trying.

In a third instance, a man who had avoided working on a project, changed his point of view, and then followed this process in detail in order to insure its success. A moment after he emailed someone the finished product, he received a most startling and unexpected note offering him three months of work in a related area.

The bottom line is that if you apply any of these organization-related methods and approaches, not only will you be making life more manageable, not only will you be establishing better conditions so life can thrive, but you will attract overwhelming results in that process. I guarantee it!

 


Powers of Organization that Attract

  • Higher Levels of Cleanliness

  • Higher Levels of Orderliness

  • Systematizing Life’s Activities

  • Organizing Facts into Ideas

  • Maximizing Use of a Resource

  • Following the Process of Creation


 SELF-ANALYSIS

Using the list above think about 3-5 major areas of your life that can be organized. Consider how a lack of organization in each of these areas have been a hindrance to your success and happiness in life. Think about how you can change your level of organization so you can avoid such problems, and then come up with a very specific plan to improve yourself in these areas. Make a fully committed effort to carrying out your plan.

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