Organizing Your Mind For Summer Vacation

Several years ago I received a call from a woman who said she had been planning all year to take a two-week trip to Hawaii. She told me how she had madly spent the day trying to clean up her office before she left. Then she raced home, feeling frantic about how she was going to get everything done there before she left. Slowly she had that sinking feeling that although she could get away from it for two weeks, she would have to come back to it -- sooner or later. Suddenly it occurred to her that she could use the money she was going to spend on her vacation on getting her act together -- and not have to go back to chaos! So instead of going away for her vacation, she stayed home. She spent her vacation money, and one week of her vacation, organizing her home. The next week she went to a nearby resort to relax -- and she truly did, knowing that she could return to a home about which she didn