I took a few days off… off work, off CircleThrice, off the phone, off reality even. I did a lot of physical labor outdoors, getting ready for the growing season to come. I also baked and caught up on laundry on a day when the weather wasn’t so nice. I knit. I did some inner work.
This morning I’m back, or at least mostly back, and so it seemed like an excellent time for this public service message. It’s a message I’ve shared in the past, but that I think bears repeating…
Why should you get organized? Why should you set hard goals and do the work of pursuing them? Why should you give yourself permission to have and achieve practical goals?
- It’s NOT to make yourself more productive so that you can virtue signal about how busy you are.
- It’s NOT to win some kind of capitalist game where you end up with more than other people.
- It’s NOT about hacks that mean you can fit more and more of your endless task list into each and every day.
- It’s NOT about following the rules for living that society or your family or anyone else has set for you.
Why get organized?
You get organized to make more space and room for the really important things. Things like spending time with friends and family, being in nature, creating things from your heart, and having precious time for contemplation and dreaming. If you are constantly scrambling every day in a morass of chaos, you can’t prioritize this critical stuff.
People often get more organized in order to take on more tasks that will need to get organized. This is the realm of Sisyphus and should be avoided. Get your shit together and then don’t make more shit! Then enjoy the shit free portions of your life guilt free — you deserve them.
Why set hard goals?
You make and strive to reach the hard goals so that you can build a better life for yourself, your family, your community. So that you can be your best version of you — whatever that means. So that you can have a life that provides the baseline stability you need to spend more time at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy.
It’s not about striving for striving’s sake or to prove anything to anyone. It’s about figuring out who you are and what you need and what really makes you happy — really hard work by the way — and then going after than with single-minded purpose.
Why be practical?
You give yourself permission to be practical because you live in this world and have to make the best of your life while you’re here. For example, having enough money to pay your bills AND travel, living in a place that makes you happy, or having a job that doesn’t suck the life out of you. Those are real things you can work toward that will make your physical incarnation better. It doesn’t mean you eschew spiritual goals. Not at all. But it does mean you acknowledge the place you’re in.
You have to know the rules of the game (and it is a game) so you can figure out how to follow / bend / manipulate / break them as necessary to have the life you deserve as a unique soul in the larger universe. You may not reach every goal. But playing is winning, so don’t give up on the game because it’s not fair or right. Make your own game, win what you want to to win, and make a better game for others to play.
That’s what it’s for
There are three reasons that CircleThrice exists:
- Because combining divination, magic, and project management gives you a powerful toolkit for changing your life and knowing that, I needed to share what I’d learned with others.
- Because doing this work makes me happy and gets me closer to my best life.
- Because helping people re-enchant their worlds and make their lives better — and doing it using the very tools of the corporate world — is a deeply subversive act. It’s a big fat FUCK YOU to those in power who’d rather we all stay afraid and enslaved in the drab, grey box of a world they try to keep us in.
