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How To Get Organized In 3 Steps

It's obvious. An organized life gives you much greater change of having a successful life. Whatever success is to you, you need to know how to get organized in enough areas so that you can achieve it.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

Even if you don't do it weekly, you can still do it regularly. Just don't let this slip you by. It's hard doing it every week. So be flexible but consistent as your lifestyle and ambitions permit.

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. Here's a fact established by Brian Tracy. 3% of the population write down their goals.

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

Don't worry about getting the 3 exercises right or wrong. The only mistake is to not do them. Simply by writing your ideas down I guarantee they will start to flow. Ask yourself question. What do I want. What have I done. etc.

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Read more at Nathan F. Shaw's blog on time management or see his latest work in the personal success matrix.

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