Organize the Essentials.
If that title sounds a little familiar, it’s because that’s the name Mom gave my company many years ago.
It was 2008, and I’d had an itch to start my own business for some time, but didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do.
When I learned that professional organizing was actually a thing, I jumped in with both feet, since organizing stuff is something I love to do.
With visions of the shoeboxes full of medicine bottles in total disarray that I’d encountered over the years in patients’ homes - and the blank look I’d often received when asking someone to tell me their health histories or wishes for care - I decided to focus my work on health information organizing and estate information organizing.
Which is how Mom came up with the name.
Although I don’t provide those services in my business anymore, I’m still passionate about the concepts.
Which is why I’d like to talk about one essential we all should organize: communicating our wishes about what we do and don’t want done when it comes to our healthcare.
Aka, advance care planning.
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