It's obvious. An organized life gives you much greater change of having a successful life. Whatever success is to you, you need to know how to get organized in enough areas so that you can achieve it.
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.
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.
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 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. 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.
And don't let your brain trick you into missing this important technique. Yes it can be extremely hard work to think of all the messy details of how things are going and attempting to put it all in order. But don't let your brain get away with chickening out.
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.
You could compare the previous weeks notes with what you write down at each Weekly Review to see your progress. If you keep this up, you'll be amazed at how things begin to change for you.
C. Long-Range: Your Life's Big Picture. Here's a fact established by Brian Tracy. 3% of the population 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.
How easily would you agree that the three techniques I've outlined are significant aspects to organize life? Again they are: 1. Regular 10 Minute Get-On-Track Reviews. 2. Weekly Self-Assessment Reviews. 3. Your Life's Big Picture Reviews
Don't worry about getting the 3 exercises right or wrong. The only mistake is to not do them. Simply by writing your ideas down I guarantee they will start to flow. Ask yourself question. What do I want. What have I done. etc.
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