Organize Life - An Impossible Dream?

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 a big part of fully organizing your life is to capture all important thoughts and things into a practical system.

There are 3 major areas of life in which you will experience the pressures and frustrations of being disorganized, or the freedom and flexibility of being well organized.

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.

We can also break our lifestyle into 3 ranges. The following 3 exercises help you control those 3 ranges whilst improving awareness of the 3 realms.

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.

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.

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.

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. Fancy being among the elite of men and women? Fact established by Brian Tracy: The top 3% of the population keep goals written down. The other 97% don't.

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 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.

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