Why I Gave Away 2,000 Books In April

When something radically changes your life, you want to share it with others. Years ago I read an intriguing article from a woman known as the Fly Lady. She had a message to anyone who had a messy house. Start with the kitchen sink. Clean that sink as you have never done before. Soak it in bleach, use elbow grease, and then polish it up to a sparkling shine. When FlyLady promised that if you learned to organize the space around you, it would spill over into every area of your life, I was interested. Very interested. I looked around at my space. As a guy, my center of the universe was my desk. It was a total mess. Books, papers, and assorted clutter were stacked over a foot high. For months I tried to get a handle on it, but I couldn’t figure out what to do with half of it. There were papers that I might need someday. There were magazines that I hadn’t read yet, not to mention the free offers that came by mail, and the coupon books with great deals. I was frozen with inaction. One day my arm hit the large stack and the pile went everywhere. It made me mad and almost brought me to tears. It was right then that the FlyLady’s words came to me… start with your sink. Well this desk was my sink, and it was one stinking mess. I looked up at my computer screen right then and the answer instantly came to me. Right in front of my face was the “recycle bin” icon in Windows. I thought to myself, “When I don’t know what to do with a file in windows, I put it in the recycle...
Source: Success Begins Today - Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tags: books Organization Personal Development book giveaway dirty desk Source Type: blogs