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If you’re interested in improving yourself, and improving your life, these articles aim to provide information, motivation, ideas and inspiration to help you get the most out of your life through organization.
Being organized makes life easier, and is a demonstration of control over your own life and your own decisions. To do anything in an orderly way involves decision making, and the ability to make good decisions and carry them out is affected by self esteem. Self esteem and motivation issues can be pretty tricky to deal with, but by applying some simple strategies to the practical details of everyday living, there can be a beneficial flow-on effect to how we feel, which is what these articles are going for.
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Getting Up On Time
Tuesday, 18 September 2007
Every day is a new opportunity to do things a bit better, to be more organized, to be more productive, to be more positive, to handle things better. And how do we start the day? By getting out of bed.
Ok, so you might start your day before you get out of bed, by thinking, meditating, stretching, or cuddling if you have someone to cuddle. That’s all good.
Looking for a way to avoid actually doing things? There are two great solutions: meetings and lists. In this article I’m just going to discuss lists though, specifically the To Do list. We’ve all got one, even if it’s just mentally and not written down.
Yes, lists can just be an avoidance tactic, but they can also be a very useful tool for being organized if you use them effectively.
Whether you should be storing something or not is another subject, but assuming the stuff is worth keeping, sometimes you might be wondering where the best place to put something is. How do you decide where and how to store your stuff around the home?
Feeling indecisive contributes to disorganization and vice versa. To be organized is going to involve making some decisions, and making decisions is not always an easy thing to do - especially if your state of mind is fuddled by disorder.
Here is a very basic framework for decision making:-
Putting things off to do ‘later’ is something we’re all familiar with, some of us a little too familiar with perhaps. It’s certainly one of my main struggles.
So why do we do it? It’s a complicated topic, because there are all sorts of reasons, such as:
