Reduce stress and anxiety when you organize your life.
By Ann Springer
In today’s uncertain times, having a disorganized personal space or frazzled personal life can only cause further anxiety and stress. Maybe your personal disorganization manifests itself by losing your keys (again) or maybe you have misplaced your reading glasses by putting them on top of your head. Maybe it’s more costly – you forget to pay a bill and your power is turned off or you miss an important appointment with a client and lose an account.
Regardless, all of these scatterbrained activities add up to time and money that is wasted—time that could have been allocated to something more fun or productive than frantically searching underneath all the couch cushions to find your lost item.
From organizing your calendar and streamlining your morning routine, to organizing your purse and remembering to give your pet its flea treatment, you can transform your life from chaotic to calm. Before you know it, you’ll be the first one on time to a meeting or function and shock all of your co-workers and friends.
When you begin to spend less time focusing on the day-to-day task then you’re more available to get to work on your long term goals.
Begin by setting priorities on your time in the same way you’d approach a monetary budget. Time is your resource instead of cash and you must dole out time to the area appropriately. Put them in writing so it’s easier to see where you want to be.
Trouble setting priorities? Consider how you’d spend your life if you only one year to live. What would you do? Who would do it with? Consider making a Bucket List of all the things you’d like to do before you turn 30? Turn 50? Turn 80? Write down what your goals are for the next 30 years of your life then look in reverse to figure out how’d you like to get to your goals.
From there you should be able to figure out a handful of items you can do this week to get you started on your life goals. Of course, life comes with twists and turns that can derail your plans or you may change your mind and go another direction, but when you have a roadmap it’s easier to change course if you know where you are and where you’ve already been.
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