Organize Your Short Term And Long Range Of Life

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?

Clearly, having an organized life means to capture every worthwhile thought in a way that efficiently facilitates action on everything important to you, without losing out on precious moments of time, giving you the best possible chance of succeeding with whatever you desire.

Life when disorganized is filled with pressure, dissatisfaction and frustration in all 3 major realms of life.

The Physical Realm organizes your lifestyle: including people in your life, environment, your health, security, wealth, etc.

The 2nd realm is the emotional part of your life, involving your happiness or moments of depression. Being organized gives you the emotional freedom to be at peace as much as humanly possible.

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.

To organize life you will have to control and organize those 3 realms in full. Here are 3 very valuable techniques to help you organize your 3 realms. They will help you organize life from 3 different 'ranges'.

A. Short Range: 10 Minutes Get-On-Track Exercise. All you need do whenever you feel overwhelmed is sit down with pen and paper and write out what's on your mind. It's one of those things that are so simple that we think surely it can't be that easy to get past the present frustration. But it works. So use it regularly.

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.

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.

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. Did you know that only 3% of people write down their goals?

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.

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.

Don't fret about getting it right. Just do it. Your life will easily become more organized if you spend less time worrying about it, and more time just scribbling down your thoughts so that you can later act on them at the right time.

Nathan F Shaw teaches a new time management system and runs online workshops on life direction and career development.

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