making a wonderful thing (perhaps not order) from chaos
I wrote about Neil Pasricha’s new book 1000 Awesome Things a few days ago. And Gala Darling.
This is Gala.
The two unite. Gala interviews Neil about all the kind of stuff I want to know from people who do sweet, off-beat things.
I liked this (because it’s so damn refreshing to know that NOT EVERYONE works to efficient systems and rules and mantras, and that being rather chaotic is awesome, too):
Do you write down awesome things as you think of them? Is there an awesome spreadsheet? How do you keep it organised?
Ha ha, I wish! I’ve actually got a giant pile of old receipts, scrap papers, and bus transfers sitting beside my computer with awesome things written on them. I’ve also got a running memo pad in my cell phone and bits and pieces floating around my email. I am definitely not a study in organization. I say once again for effect: You can learn nothing from me on this subject. (Honestly, I envy your Moleskine list-making-and-crossing-out nature. I’m the guy with a bunch of notebooks sitting around with exactly one page used with some grand title on it like “My Plan To Get Organized” or “To Do After Graduating”)
Ditto Sarah – I’m just like you – post-its, scribbles, adds to the daily moleskin journal but not in any form of order, evernote on phone/Mac….I’m lucky to have titles on mine…funny, as I’m a pretty organised with a lot of other stuff in my life…but I’m okay with this one being chaotic..
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Sarah, I’m with you and Ian. Relatively organised with work, but organisation of everything else is chaos. Scraps of paper, sticky notes, back of my hand. I do use Simplenote on my iphone, it stores text docs in another program on a laptop. Usually the headings are the notes (I’m a lazy typist too!). I once gave a client a lift to the airport after a meeting. The front seat of the 20+ year old car I was driving at the time was also loaded up with a stack of paper relating to various projects. As he got out of the car, the client thanked me for the lift and commented that “…he had never been out for a drive in a wheelie bin before…” He continued to give me work.
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Yeah, my hubby’s work truck s ” is his front office ” no room for passengers. He says he knows where everything is so I leave well alone.
And he is unfazed by the chaos
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