Job Search vs. Organize Your Files

Job Search vs. Organize Your Files LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here. Many years ago I worked at the FBI as a clerk. When I first started there we didnt have an office or cubicles, but eventually someone fought for us to have our own little space.  It was really nice and we ended up with our own oversized cubicles.  Going from nothing to a full suite was really cool. I look back on that time and remember a distinct activity I did when I was bored (I was frequently bored there).  I would organize my files. I could spend a lot of time going through my files, organizing them, labeling the hanging file folders, reorganizing them, putting them back in their  fireproof file cabinet, I looked very productive. But it just didnt matter! I was a clerk, and I didnt really have much to file!  I was wasting my time and the federal govts money (no, feds, dont come after me for that). I think about that a lot because I had the freedom to choose what I was going to do with my time, and I didnt do what I could have been doing. Similar  to my job search, I all-of-the-sudden had days with nothing on my agenda.  Oh sure, I had things I knew I should have been doing, but if I didnt do it today, it would just roll over to tomorrow, or the next day, or the next day.  It really wasnt a big deal to take time to do something as mundane as organize my files. While the important stuff was getting moved back to another day. What do you do in your job search?  How often will you catch up on your email when you know you are avoiding making a phone call? How often will you do something meaningless, something that doesnt take you closer to your goal (of gainful employment, or replacement of income) rather than something that is hard? I challenge you today: DO THAT THING. You know what THAT THING is (I dont know what YOUR thing is, but I know what MY thing is, and today Im going to do it).  It is the thing you keep putting off.  You know its important but you somehow have figured out how to keep bumping it down your priority list. Today: DO IT.  Dont worry about anything else, just DO IT. Those files can wait until tomorrow! Job Search vs. Organize Your Files LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here. Many years ago I worked at the FBI as a clerk. When I first started there we didnt have an office or cubicles, but eventually someone fought for us to have our own little space.  It was really nice and we ended up with our own oversized cubicles.  Going from nothing to a full suite was really cool. I look back on that time and remember a distinct activity I did when I was bored (I was frequently bored there).  I would organize my files. I could spend a lot of time going through my files, organizing them, labeling the hanging file folders, reorganizing them, putting them back in their  fireproof file cabinet, I looked very productive. But it just didnt matter! I was a clerk, and I didnt really have much to file!  I was wasting my time and the federal govts money (no, feds, dont come after me for that). I think about that a lot because I had the freedom to choose what I was going to do with my time, and I didnt do what I could have been doing. Similar  to my job search, I all-of-the-sudden had days with nothing on my agenda.  Oh sure, I had things I knew I should have been doing, but if I didnt do it today, it would just roll over to tomorrow, or the next day, or the next day.  It really wasnt a big deal to take time to do something as mundane as organize my files. While the important stuff was getting moved back to another day. What do you do in your job search?  How often will you catch up on your email when you know you are avoiding making a phone call? How often will you do something meaningless, something that doesnt take you closer to your goal (of gainful employment, or replacement of income) rather than something that is hard? I challenge you today: DO THAT THING. You know what THAT THING is (I dont know what YOUR thing is, but I know what MY thing is, and today Im going to do it).  It is the thing you keep putting off.  You know its important but you somehow have figured out how to keep bumping it down your priority list. Today: DO IT.  Dont worry about anything else, just DO IT. Those files can wait until tomorrow! Job Search vs. Organize Your Files LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here. Many years ago I worked at the FBI as a clerk. When I first started there we didnt have an office or cubicles, but eventually someone fought for us to have our own little space.  It was really nice and we ended up with our own oversized cubicles.  Going from nothing to a full suite was really cool. I look back on that time and remember a distinct activity I did when I was bored (I was frequently bored there).  I would organize my files. I could spend a lot of time going through my files, organizing them, labeling the hanging file folders, reorganizing them, putting them back in their  fireproof file cabinet, I looked very productive. But it just didnt matter! I was a clerk, and I didnt really have much to file!  I was wasting my time and the federal govts money (no, feds, dont come after me for that). I think about that a lot because I had the freedom to choose what I was going to do with my time, and I didnt do what I could have been doing. Similar  to my job search, I all-of-the-sudden had days with nothing on my agenda.  Oh sure, I had things I knew I should have been doing, but if I didnt do it today, it would just roll over to tomorrow, or the next day, or the next day.  It really wasnt a big deal to take time to do something as mundane as organize my files. While the important stuff was getting moved back to another day. What do you do in your job search?  How often will you catch up on your email when you know you are avoiding making a phone call? How often will you do something meaningless, something that doesnt take you closer to your goal (of gainful employment, or replacement of income) rather than something that is hard? I challenge you today: DO THAT THING. You know what THAT THING is (I dont know what YOUR thing is, but I know what MY thing is, and today Im going to do it).  It is the thing you keep putting off.  You know its important but you somehow have figured out how to keep bumping it down your priority list. Today: DO IT.  Dont worry about anything else, just DO IT. Those files can wait until tomorrow!