Our ability to get things done is highly determined by how organized we are in our lives. If everything is in chaos, how will you ever get results?
They say organized surroundings are direct reflections of how orderly one's life is. If you have too much baggage (or unimportant things) lying around, you won't have space to accommodate the better and more beneficial things you should be keeping.
A disorderly home or work space is conducive to anger, irritation, loss of precious things and a dizzy and confused mind.
So how can you establish organization in your life? Here are 3 tips.
Establish a daily routine. Get more things done by finding a routine for doing things, and employ this routine all the time. First try out a variety of ways to do things, and determine which strategy works best. When you arrive at the office, do you check your answering machine, go through your incoming mail, make a list of things to do by order of urgency, and then tackle each task one by one?
If this system works for you, then don't interchange each step for the other. If you tackle one task before checking on your phone calls and emails, there is a chance that something sent via email or a voice message may have an effect on the task you did - but missed it completely, since you decided not to follow the normal routine. Having a routine ensures the smoother running of things - and we all know how established procedures and rules have a great impact on everybody's life. If there were no routines, we would all look like headless chickens running around aimlessly.
We don't have a clear view of where to start, how to do things, and if we have already achieved the end of a task.
Tackle big projects on a regular basis. We all know that people are subject to procrastination whenever issues involving tackling the ugly, difficult but essential things are concerned. Like or not - life is like that. Not everything will be to our liking, and not everything will be easy. Resolve to take on the big things regularly (timed, if possible).
Even if you set them aside, the work will not solve itself. No matter how daunting it is to clean out that filing cabinet, it still needs to be done. No matter how boring and scary regular auditing and balancing of books are - these still need to be made.
Imagine if you refuse to balance your books at the end of the month, and this lingers on for 6 months - then you'll have an even more difficult, more tiring, time-consuming and extremely difficult job that you still will eventually have to do!
Can you even remember where you spent that $600 on? Do you still have the receipt? The longer you postpone things, the harder they will be to accomplish. The journey to success starts with the very first step.
Get rid of stuff you don't need. Declutter, declutter, declutter! Is your work table hidden underneath a mountain of papers, news clippings, used up batteries, dust, cobwebs and empty soda bottles? Do you still plan to use any of these things? Sure, the cobwebs may be useful for that annual Halloween party, but you know why there are cobwebs, right? Spiders and all sorts of bugs may be eating right into your precious office papers and computer peripherals.
I can't even imagine how much sneezing and allergies people around your office space may be suffering. The surest way to get rid of all these useless clutter and garbage is to devote one full day into going through them, throw away or donate whatever is unnecessary, sanitize your table and keep things neat from that day on. Immediately throw into the trash bin everything after they are used up (hey, those ink-less and dried up pens will never resurrect on their own), and make a conscious effort to keep your desk as clean and as orderly as possible.
This way, working is easier, and you save yourself from the tedious effort of sifting through mounds of paperwork to get one document you need. The less clutter, the clearer you will be able to think, and the easier it is to get things accomplished.
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Michael Griffiths is the CEO and Founder of Secrets Of A Super Life, providing individuals with personal development strategies to increase their purpose, passion, happiness and life fulfilment. For your free life success pack please visit http://www.mysuperlifetoday.com
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