Every box I open contains a surprise.
That book I can’t wait to re-read.
The clothes I put away for winter.
The family picture I haven’t laid eyes on in months.
As I have been emptying boxes, one at a time, and slowly finding new homes for all my “stuff” I think about how I am doing this very same process in my business at the moment.
I’m going through my email folders, Dropbox, Google Drive, external hard drives, chat conversations, notebooks, voice notes, email campaigns, teaching software, memos and ideas scrawled on paper from a dozen events and workshops.
I’m organizing it, discarding what’s no longer useful, planning around the rest. I’m settling it, piece by piece into a new digital home for systems which will be accessible later this year.
Even as I unpack into my new home, I have the idea that I may not live here forever. With my business, it’s different. I’m settling everything in, hoping it’ll live on here for many, many years.
Sometimes I watch organizing channels on YouTube or Instagram who come in an unpack a whole home in a weekend. I can’t do that in either my home or business. I’ll take out each item, consider where it goes and while it’ll take significantly more time, I’m happy with the tradeoff.