There's No Pot of Gold at the End

Gram was put on hospice the other night. 

I feel a little bit weird putting that into a newsletter, but if we can't be honest with each other what's the point of doing this?

She's 87, and she's been sick for a long time. But she's still my grandmother, and I'm still terribly sad to see her leave us.

So why bring her up in a newsletter that's ostensibly about organizing what you know? 

Well, I think organizing what you know — or the idea of productivity in general — requires us to take a hard look at everything in our lives. Not just the parts of our lives where things are going well, or we're feeling good.

Let me explain...

30,000 people read the last edition of this newsletter, and I asked each person who subscribed why they signed up. I heard a lot of stories: stories about getting ahead, keeping up, about finding a new system, about keeping organized, or being too disorganized. 

But I also heard people ask for more realness. I heard people ask for stories about what to do when times are hard, when you fall off of your system, or you haven't done anything productive in months.