Great idea re: before and after photos; will take mine soon and send them along, though I’m not sure how to send them as a slide show….may just email assorted photos and you can assemble them…

Thanks so much!

kathryn

In doing this exercise, I’ve discovered that I tend to make sure that everything looks good, even if, underneath the surface, everything is disorganized. Yes, things are put away–but where?

I should also tell you that after moving all my stuff from Boulder to California, I’ve basically just dumped most of it in our storage shed where I can simply forget about it all. But it feels like yet another unfinished part of my life. I need to either throw away some of the stuff, or else put them somewhere more accessible. At the least, to organize them in storage so I know where everything is. My main problem is that I can NOT find things. (Where did I put my husband’s birthday card? And where is the clicker I bought so I can start training my cats.) And I do NOT know where to put things.

Btw, I completed the survey, but had to use my husband’s work computer because mine kept freezing each time I’d click on the link. This is another problem I have, which isn’t necessarily organizational. My computer is not functioning properly.

Thanks,

Cheryl

RE: always longing to be elsewhere than my office: I think there are 2 reasons I don’t just run up there more often: 1. I’m not in the habit of going/being there every day. I do morning computer work in the bedroom where the morning light is, then move to the living room window bunk where the light moves to. My office is too dark, like a little cave, with only one little window that brings in little natural light, and my lighting right now is insufficient for clarity of thought. My husband has offered to put in some track lighting over my desk, which I think will help a lot with this issue. 2. When I do get up there after several days, I realize I’m more behind with sorting, filing, and working on projects than I was when I left! So it’s an uncomfortable reminder of what I haven’t been making progress on and how out of control the office really is.

I’m really thinking, and hoping actually, that my biggest “why” for learning your system is the exact reason I currently fear being present in my office: I’m NOT organized, I know it, and I know I MUST change it in order to accomplish the things that are dear to me, like finishing my first ebook and getting it marketed and sold and shared, and moving on to many others that are already formulating in my heart and my head.

I hope I’m making sense; but I will keep in mind your admonition to be willing to be present as I become a student of your system, and to be committed to change.

thanks! kathryn

I had a job that took me out of my studio, but I don’t think I would’ve been able to stand it if I’d had a home office. As it was, on my days off, I mostly found myself going to coffee shops to work (as did most of the Japanese population) because I needed a separate space for my work. Well, in my case, it didn’t help that at the time, I had an extremely vocal cat who would NOT stop talking so I needed a break from her. (This cat would whine about everything. Meooowoe is me!)

Suppose it might work better with a larger studio. Even so, for me, I really needed to demarcate certain spaces. It bothered me, for instance, to look at my bed when I worked.

The bottom line is, I just got restless. But, it may work for Tera, everyone is different. I only wanted to share my experience because sometimes the reality is sometimes different than your fantasy. Just something to bear in mind.

What Tera might be needing is to have everything at her fingertips? Music, color, food, things that uplift her and remind her of good times? Maybe she can have 2 places for her work? One to put everything that she doesn’t use every day. And then a separate area where everything that she’s going to need for a particular project she’s working on is all ready to go–all within reach.

Cheryl

I’ve often thought I might do well living in a one-room studio. I think I’d actually enjoy having my computer, printer, bed, tv and the refrigerator all within one area.

Sounds silly, I know… but it would work for me!

Tera