Out of Chaos an organizing newsletter
Getting Out the Kinks
People talk about needing to reset and unwind, and I’ll admit that even though I thought that sounded nice for them, I didn’t think it applied to me. Besides, I wasn’t sure that if I unwound completely I could ever reel myself all the way back in.
I’m hardly a workaholic, so I always justified taking my computer on vacation as the price I paid for being self-employed. This year, however, my laptop is on its last leg, and taking all the accessories that are keeping it going seemed ridiculous. So I left it at home and took a longer-than-usual trip to Florida to visit my Dad.
I haven’t even been home for 24 hours yet, but I’m feeling pretty good. I feel energetic, and calm, and like I can “gather myself back up,” and maybe, I even got some kinks out. You know the way sometimes the only way to get a kink out of a necklace is to unhook it and let it hang until it untwists? I’m that necklace. I don’t know whether it was the snorkeling, or the jigsaw puzzle, but I feel centered and ready to get back to it.
We are all so tethered to our computers and our phones, it can feel like a leap of faith to unplug, even partially, for a week.
I believe perspective is an invaluable element of organization, and how can we ever have perspective when we are so “in” our daily lives? A week in the sun, (spent largely in a place where 89 is considered young) makes everything look different.
The pile of mail on my desk is just a pile, and I know how to deal with it.
I don’t have to do my taxes today.
And if I can keep this Zen feeling, maybe I can continue to move efficiently through life without getting so tightly wound.
But if not, at least I know I can go to Florida for a week without my computer and the sky won’t fall.