Personal - #501 - #13 – Everybody’s 5” x 7” card catalogue system

Everybody has a personal 5”x7” card catalogue system in a “box”.
There are at least two ways to use this personal “box”.
As you hear or read something you write a personal 5”x7” card.

1) Some people spend their whole lives reading their cards to other people. Some of the cards are read so many times that they become torn, tattered and destroyed from overuse. But one thing I can assure you …. At the end of your life you will have fewer cards than you started with.

2) Another way to use your 5”x7” card system is to walk around with a few empty cards in your hand, eager to write a new one. Rather than read your cards, you look for the opportunity to write a new card. As you write the new one you can either compare it with one you already have and decide the old one is still better than the new one and you can throw the new one away. At least, upon review, you have now decided that your old thought was better than your new one. But perhaps you don’t even have an old card written for this new thought. So, you merely add a new card to your “box”.

One thing I can assure you …. At the end of your life you will have more cards than you started with!!!

How is your card catalogue “system”?
How do you use this 5”x7” card system?
Will you have more cards or less cards at the end of your life?
It’s all about learning and having new ideas. If all you do is read your old cards over and over again how can you ever learn anything new?

Be certain of one thing!! …….

We all have a “personal card catalogue system”!

At least you now have two choices!! … two ways to use this system!! ….

You choose!!