3 Steps To Organize Your Life

By Nathan O Shaw | February 6, 2010

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.

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.

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.

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 Minutes Get-On-Track Exercise. During emotional or mental confusion you can sit for 10 minutes or so and write down what’s on your mind. It’s so surprising that an exercise as simple as that can significantly help you get organized. In fact, it’s one of the very best techniques for organized living and controlling the 3 realms.

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.

Quite frankly, it’s tough work to maintain this discipline, until you are emotionally attached to the results it produces. So try your best to make it happen weekly. Don’t let your brain ‘forget’ about doing it too often.

Just like the 10 minute review, the weekly review can be done with pen and paper sitting quietly for just a short while to consider the past and new week’s activities and schedule.

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.

Nathan O Shaw gives more organize tips and writes about personal productivity software.

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