Sunday, June 11, 2006
Getting Organized
We have so much junk (inventory) strewn all over the place it is hard to work. Friday afternoon and yesterday we spent getting organized. We put up shelving and cleaned out the office. The shelves are filling up with boxes of stuff to sell or being sold. I am trying to put things we are about to sell on the shelves, or things that we have already listed. This way our sales items will be more organized as we go.
As we change our operation a little at a time I can see the results changing too. Of course we did a massive change to meet the extra $800 rent we had to come up with, but I think it is the little changes we make that will really start moving up toward a more successful business. Remember, “It all counts”.
There is not a lot we can do that we had not thought of doing in the past. We just procrastinated and did not get the things done. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy. We know what to do. We know how to do it. We are capable of doing it. We just do not do it. It makes no sense.
Of course a lot of things we do in life do not make a lot of sense. I think schools miss the mark by not teaching common sense as well as readin’, ritin’ and ‘rithmatic. I know that with a little more common sense and an organized plan we we be better off than we are.
Thinking success is an important part of common sense. We have to think we can do a task and believe in ourselves up front. Believing is half of the battle. Suddenly when we believed we could earn an extra $800, it happened. Common sense says we could have had that extra money any time we had decided too. We could have been enjoying its benefits for a long time instead of only recently.
