Islands of neatness.

 

I keep having anxiety dreams about the store ever since I decided to reorganize it yet again.

It's always a situation where I find that I'm involved in an offshoot of the store that I don't remember. Last night it was the Book Barn only it was called Frankenstein Books. 

Somehow I'm a minor partner, supplying used books. But the books look like crap, so I want to reorganize them. By doing so, I start straightening up the other books and the more I do that the smaller the selection looks, because I'm shedding dead product and consolidating and straightening viable product and that means they become little islands of neatness in the midst of emptiness. 

I'm making the situation worse.

I think that's the anxiety I'm feeling about the changes I'm making. I'm taking a highly functioning store and messing with it. Adding more capacity may be the wrong move. I guess I'll go ahead and take the new fixtures in and see how they work, but be willing to see that it's not working and remove them if needed. Ask Dylan and Sabrina if they work and take their advice.  

Even though this is my last year, which already seems to be accelerating, I can't seem to stop doing what I've always done. Improve the store every chance I get, even if it costs me time, energy, and money.