Organize Your Life For Success!

October 17, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Helpful Tips, Personal Development

successOrganizing the content of your life based on your needs is a best practice for managing your time, resources and money and is an essential first step if you are to fully achieve your potential in life. The reasons for this are simple. An organized clear mind leads to clear and objective goals, which in turn leads to you being able to achieve what you set out to do.

A critical first step then in staying organized is to set up a system of resource planning and clerical needs that allows you to plan out your time effectively, and allocate where you are going to spend it. In short this means such steps as getting a day planner so that you can plan ahead. Getting appropriate stationary systems and office space in place, and also getting yourself a filing cabinet, or at the very least some kind of filing system!

It would certainly be true to say that staying organized then is not something that lots of people do naturally! At first it can even seem slightly stifling, especially if you are used to totally going with the flow of what each day brings. In truth this is ok. It IS good to be spontaneous on occasions, but in general it is vital to plan out what you need to do in a particular time frame, because otherwise it is all to easy to simply become distracted!

All of us know this to be true if we think about it from the viewpoint of our own lives. For example, when we surf the web we find ourselves flitting between sites, and before you know it a couple of hours have past! Now, don’t get me wrong. That is one of the joys of the internet, and of life in General. But it is nevertheless a time stealer that staying focused and staying organised could have helped to negate.

So then am I saying that Staying Organized should mean robbing you of the juice of life? Robbing you of the spontaneity? NO! NO! NO! For me the exact opposite is true. Staying organized is about finishing the day’s tasks and having crammed far more good stuff in! In short it is the exact opposite of a spoil sport! ;)

You should know your own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to this area (clue… Staying organized means doing more of the things you like!) and communicate them to yourself regularly to analyze that your wants and needs are being met effectively. Then organize your time based on that feedback.

Keep with the program. Stay Organized, and Organize YOUR Life For Success!

Organize your Goals

September 26, 2008 by admin  
Filed under Personal Development

So you set your goals and now you need to implement
them. To do this we need to organize a way of cross checking those
goals to make sure you are on track.

Firstly have an outline. In
other words allow room for maneuver. I like to set goals just as a
plane prepares for take off. You know when you are sitting in your seat
and you hear the pilot say prepare for take off, then he tells the Air
Stewarts to cross check.

The pilot inputs the destination
co-ordinates into the computer. Once this plane is in the air, it is
constantly been pushed of course but the computers are continually
correcting the planes course so as to get to the final destination.

Have
an outline. Allow for deviations. Do not be too ridged. Keep your
destination in mind. Do this by writing it down, allow for events
pushing you of course, then correct it based on the information you
have been given.

So what I do, is set daily goals, weekly goals,
monthly goals, quarterly goals, yearly goals then three and five year
goals. Each set of goals cross check the others.

The daily goals
work towards the weekly goals, the weekly goals work towards the
monthly goals, the monthly goals work towards the quarterly goals; I
think you see what I mean.

So I just focus on the daily goals, on
Monday’s I review the previous week and then adjust for next week’s
goals and adjust accordingly for the daily goals and this goes on and
on. The final destination is always in mind. This is written down.

Life
is not fixed; things will happen from week to week knocking you off
course, however because you are re-adjusting you will get to your final
destination. Each time you are knocked of course you are given
information which helps you to re-evaluate your situation. This
information supplies you with the ingredients for success.

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