When Organization Gets Sidetracked
Today, my organized day gets off track for a bit. Our ailing refrigerator must be emptied (freezer and cooling compartments) so my husband can work on it. It’s a problem we’ve had before, so should be solvable, but requires emptying items into an ice chest and squeezing them into the downstairs freezer. Also, we must run out for some ice.
Fortunately, I don’t have to work at my outside-the-home job and only have a business commitment this evening. I can squeeze writing deadlines in between refrigerator unloadings. But this is the way life (or refrigerators) can derail our carefully organized plans.
What do we do?
- Look at our top priorities. Determine what absolutely needs to be done and fit it into the reorganized schedule. I must meet my deadlines today, send some business e-mails, place an order and make some calls.
- How can we postpone or rearrange the other items on our list?
- Can we get someone to help us? In other words, is there anything we can delegate?
- Is there something we don’t need to do at all?’
How do you reorganize or repriortize when plans change?
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