• If you wake up and came downstairs to a chaotic kitchen, starting your day off facing a dreary, piled up mess...wouldn't it be nice to hit that button and start over?
• If you get into one of "those fights" with your spouse where you fight over the same stuff you have for years (the one where no one wins and you'll never see eye to eye and both lose)...and you could just eject from that slippery slope with the re-sync button?

Now, here's the best news you've heard all day (maybe all year)...there IS a re-sync button! It's called restoration.

• Maybe it's time to "restore order" to your household so you won't have to "pay the piper" every day, having your mess drain your energy time, and money. By restoring your space and setting up systems, you're making your home right again...or perhaps for the first time.
• Maybe it's time to call a marriage huddle and set some new ground rules about fighting and which topics you're just going to drop. By showing your spouse you value them too much to continue the strife, and asking forgiveness where necessary, you're restoring the relationship.

So, why don't we all use the re-sync button we have access to? It's so easy to stick with the painful status-quo. It takes no effort to continue as-is. When you change something big, something that matters, it requires something of you. In the case of organizing, it takes commitment and some time and new ways of doing things. So, we resist hitting that re-sync button because we don't want to do what it takes. Sadly, we'd rather pay the piper every day - frustrated with our life - instead of doing the work and making changes. When it comes to relationships, change requires humility, self-assessment, putting everything in perspective, forgiveness, and a lot more...and whew, that's HARD! So, we'd rather fight the same old fight than re-sync.

I don't know about you, but for me, it's usually pain or gaining perspective that helps me to decide to re-sync. What do you need the re-sync button of restoration for?

~Vicki Norris