East Meets West or Love Meets Organization Part 1

Dealing With Our Stuff. Ram Dass says of this, “…the work is ongoing. Even now, I am still wrestling with contentment in my old age”.

Ah, so it’s not just me…wrestling with both my stuff…and contentment (not to mention the turn of the wheel of age). That’s comforting.

Even for a teacher, a coach, it’s still a process of peeling that onion, wrestling with my stuff.

And that “stuff” is both figurative and actual. The popularity of Feng Shui has helped us all realize the importance of dealing with our physical stuff. David Allen is talking about dealing with our business stuff. And Ram Dass is helping me look at my inner stuff; my inner, conditioned barriers to true love. I can’t tell you how much I am enjoying this.

And the extra challenge of puzzling out how this might relate to my business stuff if both entertaining, frustrating and intriguing to me.

How can having a method to deal with e-mail and social media exchanges, on a daily basis have anything to do with my relationship to Love? But I know it does, indeed.

Just like I’m exploring with my class in Getting to YES Now! the relationship with my own energy to the energy that I experience back from clients, I know that when I find more ease in Getting Things Done, I’ll experience more ease within myself.

So it’s worth challenging the old ways I’ve been doing things in my office. It’s worth challenging my stories about getting it done and no time to “sharpen the ax”. Yep, it’s a whole new year.

This week, I’m taking David’s suggestion in Getting Things Done and spending time in my office, really taking a look at it and making some changes, with the intention that my office will serve me better.

Extra credit for me, is to look at my office and see if there isn’t some way I can both reorganize and create an environment that reminds me, even more of the love I have for my business and my clients.

Want to join me? Would love to hear how you’ve done this, or are doing this.