I originally posted this quote almost 4 years ago. I ran across it, and thought it was worth repeating. Do you need to change the way you look at something?

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

- Dr. Wayne Dyer

“  … organizing is not a destination; it is the gateway to your higher goal…” – Julie Morgenstern

Getting organized can easily become about products or the way things look, but what it’s really about is how it supports you and your lifestyle.  Getting organized is a journey of slowing down long enough to see what you truly want, who you really are and creating an environment that supports whatever that is for you.  It’s not about a system of rigidity and “my-way-or-the-highway” thinking.  How you arrange, organize and stylize your space should reflect your values and who you are.  It should be a place or system that helps you become a better whatever-you-are.  So relax, take it all in, and whatever system is working for you – well, work that system.

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photo credit: Francisco Javier Martín

This post was originally published in May 2007

Each month I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile.   Here is this month’s quote:

“When forced to work within a strict framework the imagination is taxed to its utmost–and will produce its richest ideas.  Given total freedom the work is likely to sprawl.”
- T.S. Eliot

Each month I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile.   Here is this month’s quote:

“We don’t see things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.”
- Talmund

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* If you’re a longtime reader of this blog, I hope you have enjoyed the Quote of the Week series. Starting this month, it will be a monthly series.  I hope you continue to enjoy it!

Each week I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile. Here is this week’s quote:

“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”

- Napoleon Hill

Each week I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile. Here is this week’s quote:

“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.”

- James F. Byrnes

Each week I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile. Here is this week’s quote:

“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”

- Anaïs Nin

Each week I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile. Here is this week’s quote:

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.”

- Joseph Campbell

Each week I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile. Here is this week’s quote:

“The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them.”

- Earl Tupper (1907-1983), Businessman, inventor of Tupperware

Each week I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile. Here is this week’s quote:

“Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do.”

- Denzel Washington

Each week I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile. Here is this week’s quote:

“Anyone can make the simple complicated.  Creativity is making the complicated simple.”

- Charles Mingus

Each week I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile. Here is this week’s quote:

“As one goes through life one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.”

- Katherine Hepburn

Each week I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile. Here is this week’s quote:

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. “

- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

On Thursdays I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile. Here is this week’s quote:

“Simplicity requires ruthlessness.”

- Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

On Thursdays I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile. Here is this week’s quote:

“Be yourself.  Everyone else is already taken.”

- Oscar Wilde

On Thursdays I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile. Here is this week’s quote:

On Thursdays I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile. Here is this week’s quote:

The secret of success in life is…to be ready for…opportunity when it comes.
~Benjamin Disraeli

On Thursdays I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile. Here is this week’s quote:

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try 1 more time.”
- Thomas Edison

On Thursdays I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile.  Here is this week’s quote:

“The question is not what you look at but what you see.”

- Henry David Thoreau

On Thursdays I share a quote that I hope will inspire, make you think or just make you smile. Here is this week’s quote:

“Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.”
- Vince Lombardi