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Thanks very much again to Paul for this next instalment of his wonderful guest post series.
You can find all of the 'Filohax' posts here. There is an index of all the previous filohax posts here.
A member posted recently about protecting their card dividers by laminating them and this got me thinking about the Japanese art of 'Wabi-Sabi' - the acceptance of transience and imperfection.
I think I can call myself a student of Wabi-Sabi as the favourite Filofax from my collection is the one in the most advanced stage of disrepair - a really lived in and beaten black Winchester Ostrich.
On the other end of the condition spectrum, there is currently a pristine condition black Winchester Ostrich for sale for a thousand pounds on an online auction site , but personally I would be horrified to own it, for fear of accidentally landing the inaugural blow that deflowered it!
And why wouldn't we want to actually use a binder in real life anyway? Their very existence is to shield the paper contents and the information within from 'wear and tear'. To keep them locked away in a drawer or sitting idle on a shelf is to deny them their reason to exist...
Anyway, is not the word 'imperfection' a lot less stressy than 'perfection', with all of the attendant impossible standards to keep up with!?
Or is it 'change' that we really fear when we see our binders (and card dividers/ inserts!) becoming degraded?
When you start from the only logical position that exists - that the whole Universe is in a state of flux - then the pressure lifts and the focus moves to the contents of the binder/inserts, the ideas, opinions, art that the physical object aims to contain and protect.
And then you find something magical happens - one day you see the scuffed leather with the scratches and indentations, the dog eared and worn round corners of inserts carried lovingly over months and years - made by not only your own life but maybe even previous owners lives, and instead of imperfection you see the perfection...
It is time to enjoy a few blog posts from around the internet, grab a drink and make yourself comfortable for our weekly round-up.
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In my recent mid-year review, I noticed I have an entire list of tasks I've been procrastinating and moving from month to month. Some of them I've been putting off for years! Instead of just moving them forward again, I decided to dig a little deeper and figure out why I've been procrastinating them.
I wrote up a new list, and next to each task I wrote why I've been putting it off. This was eye-opening and forced myself to be honest. Some tasks carry a lot of emotional weight that I don't want to confront. Some tasks require technological skills or information that I don't have. Some of these cost money I don't really want to spend, or are multi-step time consuming projects I never seem to find the time for. The longest-procrastinated tasks combine several of these aspects. (Example: to transfer photos from a 20 year old external hard drive (where they were saved from a Windows desktop) to my iCloud via my macbook, which filled up my macbook's hard drive as it sees them as files not Photos, etc etc.)
Once I had figured out why I'd procrastinated each task, I started to write some solutions. Who to ask for more information, how to psyche myself up to actually do the things, when I can schedule time to do some of these things.
This exercise was very enlightening, and if nothing else now I know why I've been putting off these particular actions!
Do you tend to procrastinate intimidating tasks? What helps you confront them?
And as always on Fridays feel free to ask and/ or discuss anything ring organiser related!
Have a great weekend everyone!
