Don’t you think unorganized people look dull and out of date? Well, I think so. Yesterday I visited a place that was total mess, all because it was unorganized. My thoughts lowered me to a level were I was forced to think about simple ways to organize our lives.
So, I asked myself a simple question ‘Jaky, what is the easiest way to organize your life?’ I searched the internet and a lot of ideas bumped organizing life but most of them were about using tools and software to get organized. No wonder they are useful, but they take away the charm of taking control over your life on your own.
Organizing your life means organizing everything you think that is unorganized. Now that may be about relationships, career issues, money, time, studies or whatever.
1. Have a flexible schedule – Organizing your life starts with creating a schedule. Create a schedule that fits you and the one that’s flexible. Stick to it as much as you can. I remember there was a time I created a schedule everyday, just because it was so tough to follow and I was under the mountain of procrastination. Make a schedule that fits you.
Don’t be rigid with anything; just make it because you want things to happen time to time. And it’s okay to not follow schedule sometimes. We’re humans after all. Life should be free, but it should also be organized and that’s why we’re creating it.
2. Make sure you’ve a list of priorities – Defining your priorities is essential for organizing your life. We need to know what we want, what needs to be done now to get what we want and also what obstacles are bumping our way that aren’t letting our lives get on track. Priorities are not just for completing. They tell you what’s important to you that you may not be attending to. Create a priority list.
3. How to remember everything – I am just another guy who keeps searching for keys, glasses, cellphone, books etc almost all the time. So, how do you turn around and just find things instantly? Quite simple; Have a specific place for everything, that’s it. A predetermined place where you’ll put that stuff every time and be amazed you actually don’t have to search for it anymore.
4. The big calendar – I keep a wall calendar to constantly aid me remember dates, events and things for the month. It has all sorts of marks all around dates with lots of notes written on all around it. Behind it, I’ve my payable bills and everything attached. This organized my home priorities of groceries, telephone bills, and electricity bills, some handy receipts and necessary documents of recent transactions. I also do a monthly clean up of things.
5. Procrastination hurts organization – If your life is not organized, that probably means you may be procrastination on things you should do now. Tiny procrastinations at work and home sometimes sum up with deadly workloads and unorganized work. Do today’s work today. That’s about organizing your days, years and life.
These tips should organize a big part of your life, just like they’ve organized mine. And you’ve to keep searching for bigger ideas.
You’ve to experiment with yourself, your lifestyle and the way you think organizing your life is all about. { Illustration by smlions }