How I Don't Stay Organized

1. I procrastinate just enough to go to bed worried every night.
2. I convince myself that the problem lies in something I don't have or use.
3. I sign up for Anxiety, Ta-Da, ZenPages, Sandy, Remember the Milk, 30 Boxes -- whatever the blogorati are chattering about that day.
4. I read websites -- 43 Folders, Lifehacker, Zen Habits, the GTD blogs, and others.
5. I buy books such as Getting Things Done, which I never find time to read.
6. I comment on articles by others who stay organized.

Somehow, though, the most important things scream their way to the top and I deal with them. Still, I often feel as if I'm a hair's breath ahead of the reaper.

Perhaps when Apple releases the iPhone SDK a hundred to-do apps will tumble out and I'll discover one that syncronizes with everything, helps rank tasks based on some analytical or semantic understanding of my inbox and social media accounts, and I'll happily be compelled to get my life in practical, stress-reducing order.

Hahahahahah! Heh. Hmmm.