I’ve been staring at my garage for the past 3 weeks, trying to get my head around getting things organized. I’d move one thing and then get overwhelmed by the countless things left to move. I’d spend an inordinate amount of time touching things that had a history and get lost in the reveries rather than focus on the objective. I just couldn’t get my head around this project. For Father’s Day, my daughter offered to help – nothing casual about the offer, she organizes spaces that people like me have let get out of control. As I watched, I learned that the keys to her methodology were focus on the objective and don’t quit. Like laying out the countless boxes, bags, and cups fills with screws … and then sorting them all into separate containers, until they were all accounted for. And along the way, discard, rusted, bent, and miscellaneous ones that had past stories but no current purpose. And just like that I realized that the gift she’d given me was understanding there is no other quality so essential to success as the quality of perseverance. It’s a real treasure when the people you love (or who work for you) help you see and learn something new. Like my Father’s Day gift: slow down, focus, and persevere – that’s the best way to organize and achieve your objectives today.
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (1839 – 1937): American businessman and philanthropist.[1]
[1] He became one of the wealthiest Americans of all time after founding the Standard Oil Company in 1870. In his retirement, he focused his energy and wealth on philanthropy, especially regarding education, medicine, higher education, and modernizing the Southern United States.
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