Getting Organized Can Cover Soooo Many Topics

We have recently returned from time in Nebraska but I am still suffering from my brain having been run over by everything paintball. Long story there that I will cover in a later post. It was however, while I was dealing with the paintball people that I realized when we say "get organized" we can mean sooooo many different things. I realized the subject is a great deal larger than storage boxes, files, and other clutter mangement tools for our homes. This got started when a paintball enthusiast told me and my colleagues to "keep our eyes open because paintball was going to be an Olympic sport someday." He may in fact be right about that but by the time it becomes a reality, his already cranky knees will have had him out of the paintball park for a number of years!

I did a small bit of research on the paintball world's aspirations for Olympic status and concluded that this "ain't gonna happn" anytime in the near future and here's why. The world or field of paintball has no organizational framework or infrastructure and is not going to "get organized" for what appears to be a good amount of time. Without an organization to get agreement on and set priorities(read raise money), paintball is not in a position to focus any significant influence on the U.S. Olympic Committee, let alone on the International Olympic Committee and the sport leadership of many of the world's nations. Fixing their lack of organization will take time and with the Olympics only occurring every four years, my enthusiastic acquaintance may have his hopes and dreams fulfilled around 2020! If they achieve the goal before then it may be because they managed to get crazy organized!