Continuous improvement

My home computer gets a lot less use, and a lot less intentional organization than my work computer. Which finally came to a head last month. 

During the COVID quarantine I had taken an online course. A couple months ago, the host company sent an email that we should download our files before they were sunsetted. So I did. Last month I decided to review the course and discovered, to my chagrin, that I had downloaded all the files – and left them there in the downloads folder. This, of course, is never a good plan. They ought to be backed up some place more permanently. They were big mp4 files which quickly filled my cloud storage. Which made me own up to the fact that I had not replaced my external storage drive. 

I did get an external drive. I did upload my big mp4 files. But I also started looking at my organization across the board. Three different cloud storage spaces, with no particular pattern to what was saved where. I’m still sorting things out, getting rid of a few things that I don’t need to hang onto (see a similar dynamic in my spring cleaning post). Little by little, I’m making my way through.

Not all improvement requires blowing things up and starting over. Sometimes it requires small adjustments on a regular basis – hence, continuous.