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- Personal (Spiritual life, Significant other, Children, Parents, Siblings, Friends)
- Professional (Boss, Employees, Colleagues, Clients)
- Leisure (Vacation, Volunteer, Exercise, Hobbies)
- Physical Space (Home, Office, Car)
Lack of order leads to a lack of connectedness to who we are, who we want to be, what we are doing, and what we want to be doing. Order increases our effectiveness and our productivity. Order also enhances the meaning of the experiences in our lives. Having boundaries enables us to prioritize, plan, and fulfill our obligations as well as our dreams. Can you imagine what Franklin would do if he saw us (technology constraints aside):
- Eating while driving
- E-mailing from a cocktail party
- Dining with friends while talking on the cell phone
- Having quality family time in front of the TV
- Passing up our vacation time
- Renting a storage unit to store things that don't fit into our home
Might we be able to regain order in our lives by doing any of the following?
- Eating dinner at the table with no TV, and perhaps even some music or candles
- Organizing our "junk" drawer, closet, or room
- Answering the telephone when it is convenient, not simply because it rings - this is why we have answering machines, isn't it?
- Sitting, having meaningful conversation without distractions
- Scheduling quiet time into our day
- Prioritizing our "to-do's" in such a way that we can accomplish them
- Driving with our full attention on the road
How might you translate order into your life? Do any of the suggestions above resonate for you? If so, which ones? How and when might you apply them to your life? Let's challenge ourselves to add boundaries to our lives and to take these modern conveniences and use them - not abuse them.
Take Action Challenge: The challenge this week is to add order to your life. Be creative find some ways to embrace order of both your time and your space. Look at the suggestions above and see which resonate. My request is that you will add some order to one area of your life - this may be a closet, it may be eating meals with attention, or it may even be scheduling an afternoon for yourself having your only goal be relaxation. Think about what order you need in your life right now and take the steps to add it, so that you may enjoy that which you already have more fully. All the best to you,
Margaret.
P.S. Encourage your friends, family, and colleagues by sharing this newsletter with them and invite them to subscribe! Direct them to www.MargaretPundmann.com where they can sign up. Margaret Pundmann is a life and business coach, speaker, and author of numerous articles on living your most powerful life. Stay tuned, this fall Margaret's first book on powerful living will be available for pre-order. Please feel free to forward the "Powerful Living, Powerful You" newsletter to friends and colleagues, but please forward in its entirety. The "Powerful Living, Powerful You" newsletter is written and distributed by Emerge Enterprise. Copyright © 2008 Margaret Pundmann. All rights reserved.
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