In case you haven’t noticed, it’s 2012. Time to say good bye to the fun and fortunes of 2011 and welcome in the year the Mayans predicted would be our last. Well, with every new year comes a batch of checks in the first week with all the dates scratched out and rewritten appropriately. Along with that comes a new year promise that we make to ourselves and those around us. My resolution for the new year was going to be to quit smoking. Surprisingly enough, I managed to kick this habit back in late October, leaving me to find another worthwhile resolution that would change my life for the better. It didn’t take me long to decide on one though.
Get organized.
Like most people with a family, my home is organized in the loosest sense of the term. Yes, we have a hall closet. Yes, it has jackets in it. Yes, it also has tennis rackets, old comic books, a vacuum cleaner and an odd assortment of other things that have no real place of their own. It’s not that we don’t have enough space, its just that we don’t take the time to utilize it efficiently. Now is that time and I’m suggesting it for others as well.
In the process of getting organized, so many other great things will happen to you that you’ll wonder if it’s 
Christmas again. In the process of getting organized, you will be forced to take actions that you forgot you were supposed to take. Like hanging the pictures you forgot about in the corner of the blue room behind the boxes of holiday decorations that you never took to the basement. Or finding those old comic books in the closet you misplaced the last time you were cleaning during the surprise visit from your in-laws. Yes, getting organized hurts a little bit, but it’s well worth the effort with all the treasures you’ll find and tasks you’ll accomplish.
For the pen collector, getting organized means an opportunity to check up on old pens that have been relegated to the desk draw for the bulk of the last year. It means taking stock of supplies and perhaps finding a better system to organize, catalog and perhaps show off some of your prized possessions for visitors to see. In fact, one of the best ways to organize your pen collection (besides a nice pen chest) is to show a few of them off on your desk with a decorative pen stand. And lucky for you, Executive Essentials has many to choose from.
You’ll find a few dozen statues ready and able to hold your pen tight and display it anywhere in your house in the EE catalog. My favorite is the Jac Zagoory Lion Pen Holder. This pewter statue has the lion in a lazy, yet powerful position where the pen will lay perfectly across is paws from front to back.
Second in line would be the Jac Zagoory Butterfly Symbol of Life Pen Holder. Again, this statue is made of pewter and depicts a butterfly with it’s wings slightly spread to hold not one, but multiple pens at a time. This is a great piece for showing of collections or for holding several pens with multiple uses.
For those feeling a bit dangerous, I’d recommend the Jac Zagoory Snake Pen Holder. This twisted, coiled piece of pewter has a menacing grace to it and at the least will keep small children from trying to run off with your prized writing instrument. Made of pewter it also has the ability to hold more than one pen.
These are just a few of the many pen holders at Executive Essentials. Go ahead and look around and treat yourself to a little gift for getting organized. Have a great 2012.
