Organization is NOT one of my natural gifts. I really have to work at it. Thankfully, I have been blessed with a good (really good) memory, and that somewhat makes up for the organization deficit.
My office is a den of chaos. I’ve had offers from friends and family to help “straighten” it up. One even started on it without my knowledge or consent, but I stopped her in the nick of time..while having a quiet, yet full-on panic attack.
It may look chaotic to others, but I know exactly where everything is. Just because it doesn’t look all neat and tidy (which translates to creepy-like) to me, it works for my left of center brain functionality, and it works for my life.
There are a few questions I am asked over and over. They are all tied to my personal chaos. examples: Why do you never sleep? How do you maintain a filing system in your head? What’s your typical day like? I’m going to address one of those here. (I will get to the sleep question on another blog, I promise, I know it’s a subject of much speculation, haha)
So, what is a typical day for me…
I’m an early morning person, I’m usually up by 5am, some days a bit earlier. I run on days when the weather of the day is cooperating, or do something else in the cardio arena on the days that don’t. I drink a lot of coffee. A lot. While I’m doing that, I check email to see if there are any emergencies, then do a quick round on the social media sites to say hello. I don’t spend much time on those, as much as I’d like to,
I just can’t 
Get the child up, fed, off to school at 7am, then I work on proposals, queries, editing, phone calls, conference with publishers, follow ups, market research, etc. This continues until 3pm, when the kid is released from school, and I am mom, chauffeur to myriad activities, cook, housekeeper, all the fun domestic stuff. Add in the random errands, etc., and its non-stop all the time.
After the family is down for the night, I repeat many of the above listed work tasks again..maybe I sleep, and maybe I don’t. Depends on the volume of work, and whether or not sleep is even an option.
Wow, sounds like fun, yes? Sounds like some chaos, right?
Well, it is, but I dig it. It’s not glamourous or fancy, but I embrace it. Sometimes you have to make chaos your bitch.
I love my job. I’m honored to work for the best writers and boss on the planet. I get up everyday looking forward to the tasks.
I dig my chaos. I’m keeping it.
I think I had a small panic attack reading this. LOL.
I’m on the other end…I like a neat and tidy desk. It sometimes gets very messy, but I’ve been known to whip out the endust and clean up a bit before I sit down to pound out some words.
Hey, whatever works. You do a great job, so go with it, right?
I figured it would get to a few people.
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but you’re absolutely correct. Whatever works. (obviously, the neat and tidy is working for you!)
Good to get an look at the inner workings of YOU – a bit scary, but overall good!
Oh, I’m not that scary, once you get to know me
and, if Iike you, muahahahaha.
I totally get that!
My area around my computer is so messed up with clutter that everyone in the family has taken to calling it my “nest.”