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 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.
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. 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. 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.
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.
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. 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.
You should go to great lengths to nail down the big important things in your life. Your ultimate success and satisfaction depends on you being organized with your big ambitions and values.
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
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.
