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Organize Life - An Impossible Dream?

By: Nathan O Shaw

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.



Life when disorganized is filled with pressure, dissatisfaction and frustration in all 3 major 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 Emotional Realm organizes your 'spiritual' (whatever that means to you) and emotional experience of life. Your pursuit of happiness and romance, peace, and 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 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. A weekend review is the time to consider the entire past week and upcoming new week and come to some conclusions and reflections.



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.



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. 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.



See how much you can write down about what's genuinely important to you. Some people go through life never really knowing. Writing these things down will probably produce some aha moments. And will also motivate you strongly to organize your life for what's important to you.



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.

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