To organize your life is important. Doesn't it just make plain sense that when everything is organized we can do more, achieve more, become more, and enjoy everything more too? Would you agree that most successes depend on us being at least reasonably organized? But what would it actually look like to have an organized life?
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.
Through organization you will eliminate many unnecessary pressures, dissatisfactions, and frustrations. You will easily relate to these 3 realms of life.
First there is the physical realm. It involves the people in your life, the location you live, the practical things like financial management and your health.
Your emotional realm can be thought of as your 'spiritual' part of life. This includes your happiness, peace, and sense of adventure.
The Mental Realm organizes your thought. The development of mind includes building your personal power via learning, self-questioning, character development, skill building, listening, exploring, and developing influence.
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 Minute Get-On-Track. At times we get off track, whether practically, or with our efficiency, or emotionally. At those times, it is wise to do a 10 Minute Get-on-track review which is simply sitting down for about 10 minutes and going through the 7 Steps Of Organizing writing out everything that is pressing or weighing on your mind about your life right at this time.
B. Medium Range: Weekend Review to Organize Life. On a regular basis, perhaps weekly or so, take some extra time to think through the past week and project ahead into the week coming. Use your calendar when you do this weekend review and you will easily find your life becoming more organized.
A Weekly Review is so so so important. It puts a 'sheen of success' over everything you do. Try it for a few weeks and see what difference it makes to how well you organize life.
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. Did you know that only 3% of people write down their goals?
Take the technique of 'writing down your goals' really far by thinking about all the big important things in your life.
Can you see that these 3 techniques fit will with the 3 ranges of short, medium and long perspectives of your life? A 10 minutes quick review. A weekly review of what's been going on and what's up and coming for the new week. And a long-range goal planning that identifies what's important to you.
Even if you are unclear of all the benefits or you're unsure exactly how to do those 3 techniques, just start. Start from now. Really. I mean don't just read this article, use it. They will genuinely help you organize life.