It’s perfectly all right to cope. One always must.

But one MUST organize things while he copes.

The mounting overload and overwhelm in an area comes entirely from cope-cope-cope without organizing also.

Example: You have to handle something for which there is no planned organization. Like a mob at a Congress. You can cope. But if you don’t take the first available instant to grab 3 guys and give them specific duties right then to mind doors and tickets it all just gets worse and worse and the cope catches up as overwhelm.

Any old org bd is better than no org bd at all.

A good org bd well grooved in, duties well apportioned, permits things to smooth out and increase in volume without strain.

In a flood if you can channel the water, you can handle the flood. If you just batter at water you drown.

ORGANIZATIONAL GENIUS IS COMPOSED ONLY OF ARRANGING SEQUENCES OF ACTION AND DESIGNATING CHANNELS FOR TYPES OF PARTICLES. THAT’S ALL IT IS.

Then you can handle flows and prevent stops.

So you must always organize as you cope.

National riots are just the inability of leaders to arrange sequences of action and designate channels for types of particles.

One area which was never organized became just an ant-hill of do-less, useless motion.

If your in-basket is too high you cope and handle it AND ORGANIZE YOUR LINES for the future.

“I’m absolutely drowning . . .” is the same as saying “I can’t organize worth a damn!”

Every exec has his own personal org bd. Really it’s at least 21 depts.

But you don’t have to go that fancy.

I had an org bd once that was 8 folders, each representing traffic from a major org, reports placed in it latest on top, a communicator who did the placing, a greeter who handled bodies and an inspector that was me. Just myself and one other. But it was an org. With that “org bd” I handled all the Scientology in the world at that time, lectured, researched and had ample time left over. It reduced full-time cope to a part-time job. Later 100 staff members (WW) replaced me as Exec Dir and I moved off post. They were all very busy but they didn’t even know they had an org bd they were on, no individual operated his own personal org bd. Their cope and ignorance took the stats right on down. But they sure were busy coping!

The antithesis (opposite) of an org bd is confusion. The amount of confusion present doesn’t add up to production, even though it is totally exhausting. The end product one wants is not exhaustion. The amount of energy expended does not measure production. Production is solely the amount of completed cycles that occur. The more they are planned in sequence and the better the different types are channeled the more production will occur.

So cope by all means but don’t forget to organize a little each time you get a chance.

The end product of cope is drown.

The end product of organize is freedom.