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Simple But Effective Tips To Get Organized |
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Nathan O Shaw |
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It's important to organize your life. When everything is more organized you can do and achieve much more. In fact, success depends to a large degree on how well you can organize things. And what would your life look like if it was ideally organized?
And through collecting your thoughts in an organized way you can facilitate everything important to you. Efficiency will help you not lose precious moments of time due to a lack of organization and preparation.
Life when disorganized is filled with pressure, dissatisfaction and frustration in all 3 major realms of life.
The Physical Realm organizes your lifestyle: including people in your life, environment, your health, security, wealth, etc.
The 2nd realm is the emotional part of your life, involving your happiness or moments of depression. Being organized gives you the emotional freedom to be at peace as much as humanly possible.
Third is the mental realm. To mentally organize your thinking. This area involves your mental abilities of learning, questioning, reasoning, etc. All vital to be able to really organize things properly.
I have got 3 great exercises for you that will help you be more mindful of those 3 realms whilst aiding you in organizing your life.
A. Short Range: 10 Minutes Get-On-Track Exercise. All you need do whenever you feel overwhelmed is sit down with pen and paper and write out what's on your mind. It's one of those things that are so simple that we think surely it can't be that easy to get past the present frustration. But it works. So use it regularly.
B. Medium Range: Weekend Review to Organize Life. Take an hour or so at the weekend to review the past week and plan for the coming week.
Weekly reviews are one of the things that when you make a habit of it, can have a dramatic lasting effect on how organized your entire life becomes.
Even if you don't do it weekly, you can still do it regularly. Just don't let this slip you by. It's hard doing it every week. So be flexible but consistent as your lifestyle and ambitions permit.
Call yourself all sorts of bad names to motivate yourself if you're being too lazy. And it doesn't have to be hard. Just grab pen and paper and jot down the thoughts on your mind about what happened the week before and what's on the agenda for the coming week.
A neat trick to help you see the progress you make is to keep each weeks notes and look them over when you do the present weeks review. You'll soon see the benefit of doing these weekly reviews by the aha moments and hmm moments you have during the reviews by looking at the last weeks review.
C. Long-Range: Your Life's Big Picture. Here's a fact established by Brian Tracy. 3% of the population write down their goals.
See how much you can write down about what's genuinely important to you. Some people go through life never really knowing. Writing these things down will probably produce some aha moments. And will also motivate you strongly to organize your life for what's important to you.
So with those three techniques you can greatly improve where your life is headed for all 3 realms of physical, mental and emotional. Again the 3 exercises are A. to review what's going on right now with a 10 minute review. B. The weekly review of last week and the coming week. And C. the long-range view with your important big goals.
Don't fret about getting it right. Just do it. Your life will easily become more organized if you spend less time worrying about it, and more time just scribbling down your thoughts so that you can later act on them at the right time.
Nathan O Shaw writes about different practical organizers and is author of the 7 steps of how to get organized. This and other unique content 'get organized' articles are available with free reprint rights.
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