Road to organization

Road to Organization

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I have seen this picture many times of what people think the path to success looks like versus what it really looks like.
When it comes to personal organization this started to resonate with me as well. However, the more I think about it the path is a bit different and has different  stages that may come in different orders or may not come at all.  Here is my take on the two paths.
Stage 1: Things start off fine early in life, when there is not much personal information or documents to organize. Having only a very few accounts makes it easy to keep track of it in your mind.
Stage 2: You start to forget about some of your accounts or need an account number or information for your first bank application or ID application. Then comes the scramble for information and the discovery that you are more disorganized than you thought.
Stage 3: You put something simple in place to organize some of the information you have like a spreadsheet or start writing things down and things stabilize.
Stage 4: The New Years resolutions happen and you get organized every January and it quickly falls off for the rest of the year.
Stage 5: A rough patch in life occurs, perhaps you lose a job, and the chaos begins causing organization to not be a priority and it hits an all time low.
Stage 6: Something in life happens like a death of a family member, a child needing information about themselves, or something important needing information that is incentive to get organized again, and somehow you manage to stay somewhat organized.
Stage 7: This is the all important stage. You find the right organizational method that works for you, is easy to keep up to date and it actually reminds you of important events to keep you on track for the rest of your life. This is where LifeHound comes it.  It is the tool that keeps you on track and continues to remind you to stay organized, learns your life, and hounds you to add more information to track to increase organization of your life for the rest of your life and to pass that on to your children.