TGIF

Announcing a new Johnny.Decimal initiative: Thank God I Filed it! (on Friday).¹

Okay, this one's a little tongue-in-cheek. But I think there's something to be had here.

Filing is boring

I'm constantly aware that I run this website for a thing which most people find really boring. Let's not fool ourselves: even if you're in to this sort of thing, filing things isn't 'fun'.

The result is that we don't do it. We know we should. We might even have a really neat place to file things. (You're welcome.) And still we don't!

So TGIF is a little prompt. Here's the challenge:

This Friday, make an effort to file at least one thing. Make it the thing that caused you the most problems this week.

Invest an hour

Let's say you set aside an hour to do this. This is why we picked Friday: it's a perfect 3pm-on-a-Friday sort of job. You're almost finished, your brain is fried, so why don't you do something menial that helps future you?

In an hour, aim to file four (4) things. Just four. No stress.

If you do this every week for a year, in a year you've filed 200 things. And I bet you don't routinely use 200 things! We're talking your logo, your pricing chart, your list of suppliers.

So in a year, you might not have much left to do. That'd be nice.

Share your success

Let us know on the forum if this helps!