Creating Organization From Chaos
God doesn’t like chaos. The universe doesn’t like chaos. People don’t operate well amidst chaos. When was the last time you paid any attention to the chaos you have around you?
Study any successful person and you’ll find that he or she has consistent, organized, predictable, duplicatable results. These all come as a result of having proper organization in place.
ORGANIZATION IS ABOUT ACTION, RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
Responsibility is your ability to respond in a situation. If somebody has assigned you a task and you complete it, that’s only the partial picture of responsibility. Responsibility also means that you’re able to act when you are called upon to complete and handle the situation in front of you.
Organization also introduces accountability to the picture because each person knows what he or she is responsible for.
EXERCISE #1: THE BIG SHEET
In the audio program, I explained that, in order to create an organizational chart for our growing company, we first hung a large piece of paper in the kitchen. Whatever activities each of us did through the day we wrote on that sheet of paper. We kept writing, day after day. At the end of the week, we had more than 300 activities listed. Then we took those 300 activities and divided them into different areas — finances, maintenance, quality control, ordering, etc. Then we coupled tasks with team members who had the talent and skill set to complete the task.
Now, if you are an individual working on your own, you still need an organizational chart. Write down all the activities that you’re performing in your trade. Then, create seven “names” — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. You’ve now created an organizational chart for each week.
An organizational chart also applies to your family. Look at all the activities that go into maintaining the home. Once you have those activities in place, you know how to create the organizational chart.
Obviously, there’s not enough room to create your organizational chart in this booklet, but I will ask you to do the following ... When you’ve completed any of the organizational chart tasks above, please take a few moments to write about the experience, lessons you learned along the way, eye-openers that might have come as a surprise, and how you felt about the exercise once it was completed:
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EXERCISE #2: CHAOS CREATORS
What is currently creating chaos in your life? Which area of your life needs the most help? Take a few moments to think through your situations of life and write the “chaos moments” here:
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Once you recognize chaos, you’re already on your first step to organization. Taking what you’ve written here, review the organizational charts that you created for your workplace (whether in a team environment or alone) as well as your home life (remember – you don’t necessarily have to have a family to experience chaos). Have you addressed these chaotic issues in the charts you’ve created? If not, it’s time to add their opposite — the solution – to the chart and assign a “team member” to start handling this chaos immediately.
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
If you feel lazy or feel overwhelmed about all the organization that needs to be done in your life, think about the universe spinning around your head. If such a big universe works in such a systematic way, be assured that your life can work in the same, systematic way. So, get off that couch. Get organized. Find a team. Stop the chaos!