Organize Life - An Impossible Dream?

By: Nathan F Shaw

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"Brain, for the next hour, it's you and me bucko!" Like in the 10 minute review, sit quietly with pen and paper, or at your computer, and just work through the 7 Steps Of Organizing. Direct your thoughts to considering 'your life in general'.

Keep your notes from week to week and review the last weeks notes when you do this weeks review. You'll surprise yourself at how much better your life is organized and the direction you are going in within just a few months.

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.

So with those three techniques you can greatly improve where your life is headed for all 3 realms of physical, mental and emotional. Again the 3 exercises are A. to review what's going on right now with a 10 minute review. B. The weekly review of last week and the coming week. And C. the long-range view with your important big goals.

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.