DAY 17: DESK PAPERS
When people say, "Mark, you're so organized," I just smile. Anyone who's seen my office on a typical day knows why. I'm a devotee of the "pile" system of organization. In this day of electronic files, I'm still a fan of printing out papers I need (and those I don't need) -- often several copies -- and putting them in the perfect place on my desk, so that when I need them they are right there at my fingertips. The trouble with my system, of course, is that everything gets buried and I can't find anything. Then, I end up printing it again, and...well, I think you get the idea. Every several months, I get fed up, and play Italian Postal Service (translation: I throw it all away and start over again).
This box is all the useless paper that was on my desk. The good news is that I found one item that I have literally been looking for for almost a year!
The bad news is that chaos is waiting right around the corner. Embrace it.
When an evil spirit goes out of a person, it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can't find one, it says to itself, "I will go back to my house." So it goes back, and finds the house empty, clean, and all fixed up.
- Matthew 12:43-44
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