CTR Organizing Team

It’s important to organize your life. When everything is more organized you can do and achieve much more. In fact, success depends to a large degree on how well you can organize things. And what would your life look like if it was ideally organized?

Clearly, having an organized life means to capture every worthwhile thought in a way that efficiently facilitates action on all things 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, your environment, your activities, security, finances, etc.

Your emotional realm can be thought of as your ‘spiritual’ part of life. This includes your happiness, peace, and sense of adventure.

And the third realm is the mental. Expanding your minds ability to reason. To question. To listen attentively. Skills and character building. These things are of course necessary for how to organize your life.

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. A weekend review is the time to consider the entire past week and upcoming new week and come to some conclusions and reflections.

A Weekly Review is so so so valuable. It puts a ‘sheen of success’ over everything you do. Try it for a few weeks and see what difference it makes to how well you organize life.

Quite frankly, it’s tough work to maintain this discipline, until you are emotionally attached to the results it produces. So try your best to make it happen every week. Don’t let your brain ‘forget’ about doing it too often.

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.

You could compare the previous weeks notes with what you write down at each Weekly Review to see your progress. If you keep this up, you’ll be amazed at how things begin to change for you.

C. Long-Range: Your Life’s Big Picture. Fancy being among the elite of men and women? Fact established by Brian Tracy: The top 3% of the population keep goals written down. The other 97% don’t.

You should go to great lengths to nail down the big important things in your life. Your ultimate success and satisfaction depends on you being organized with your big ambitions and values.

Can you see that these 3 techniques fit will with the 3 ranges of short, medium and long perspectives of your life? A 10 minutes quick review. A weekly review of what’s been going on and what’s up and coming for the new week. And a long-range goal planning that identifies what’s important to you.

Even if you are unclear of all the benefits or you’re unsure exactly how to do those 3 techniques, just start. Start from now. Really. I mean don’t just read this article, use it. They will genuinely help you organize life.

Get 7 principles of personal productivity and take a look at the 7 Steps of Organizing at www.organizedr.com.

Getting organized is a bad goal. Why? Because it’s impossible. Face reality. You could spend your lifetime on trying to get organized, and still not be done. There are too many things to do in life. Getting organized will never be complete. Sure you can organize your sock draw, but who cares? Getting organized is actually the wrong goal.

You don’t really want to get organized anyway. That’s not the real goal is it? The goal is to get things done and enjoy the process. The key to getting things done is actually not to focus on getting organized at all.

So the big distinction to grasp is the difference between getting organized and being efficient. Organization means being orderly. Where everything has a place. But being efficient is different. Efficiency means getting rid of waste so that you can get things done the right way – and quickly. Despite things being orderly or not. With efficiency, you quickly see and do the one best way to get something done. Even if your desk is a mess.

It’s important to realise that getting organized just so that we can actually do something important is often far more time consuming than it needs to be. Here are 4 key points on being efficient to compare with the old goal of getting organized:

1. ONLY put in enough energy and effort to achieve what really matters to you – don’t waste your time or energy. 2. Arrange your life around things that are important to your success and satisfaction. 3. Don’t fret over the small stuff. And have a way to confidently know what is small stuff and what is big stuff. 4. Be organized ONLY enough that you can find everything you need or want – when you need or want it. (Don’t ‘over organize’)

You can be efficient. And you can’t ever get truly organized. You can achieve success in any area through being efficient. So stop trying to get organized.

Want to find out more about getting organized by being efficient? Then visit this special site on how to get organized in just 7 Steps by asking smart questions and using fill-in-the-blank templates.

Going to college could be exciting yet a challenge for everyone especially if the school you are going to study is far from home which usually is the situation.

For most, this is the initial step to independence. Before entering this stage, your parents would see to it that you had everything you need at home and in school. This time you have to do it on your own.

Compared to their large bedrooms at home, the dorms they will live in have limited space. New college students might have a hard time fitting in everything they bring from home.

Bring only essential things. The space is just enough that most of the things at home could not accommodate. In this case, it would be wise to bring only the ones that you use in a week or two. In addition, to create some space you might want to try out containers that can be used to store your things under the bed, or devices that can allow you to hang your things in a well kept manner.

Do not forget to include a study lamp. that you can use when everyone in the room are sleeping. This way you will not bother others.

The toilet and shower room usually in dorms/boarding houses is open for everybody. And because you cannot just stuck your things inside, so you have bring organizers with handle to put your toiletries every time you go to the bathroom.

At home, most of the things, we all depend and borrow that from our Mom. But Mom will not anymore be around, so be responsible for the things you will need. Medicines also are important, this must not be forgotten especially medicines for common illness like stomach pain, cold, fever.

Store some food. The cafeteria in the dormitory opens and closes at specific time of the day. If you get hungry when the cafeteria is closed, you would certainly be thankful if you have made some food available earlier. Make sure to keep food that are easy to store such as bread, sandwich spread, instant noodles and energy bars to fill you up when the time comes.

Refer to more pieces of work penned by this author dealing with subject matters including baby food and formula and wet dry bag.