Gecko Bloggle

Or “How I went from a long-haired zippy geek to a motivational speaker in just Twelve! Short! Months!”

So, for any of you that know me, you’ll not be surprised that I’m the kinda guy who finds Tony Robbins kinda freaky. Same goes for any of those folks carrying around those manpurse (murse?) Day-Timer things with the removable pages and the pen holder on one side, and the PalmPilot pocket on the other. They just give me the willies. Both the people who push the stuff, and the people who use the stuff. I’ve always thought I’m too much of a cowboy to use any of the “How To Organize Your Life Into Three Coffee Cups and an A-Team Lunchbox” sorts of articles. I remember using Lotus Organizer for a while in ’97/’98, and I felt like I could still maintain some sorta street cred because it was LOTUS (not Microsoft) and it was electronic, not paper. Who was I kidding? Just look at that thing.

The only thing missing was the pen holder.

So many years went by, and I kept going back and forth between trying to use my Palm Pilot, and using Outlook, and trying to use various weird programs to keep myself organized, but the main downfall was this:1. Find neat new “organizer” program or plugin.
2. Play with and use/abuse new program or plugin.
3. Get bored/frustrated with new program or plugin.
4. Get disorganized because I didn’t want to deal with #3 any more.
5. Return to pissing on small fires instead of actually organizing myself in any coherent way.I’ve been on step #5 for a while now, and now that my job has changed pretty radically in the last two months, I’m finding myself having to get organized quickly. The main thing is that I need to organize my organization, first, and THEN figure out what I need to organize.

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Yaaaaaay…