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Success Secrets of Personal Organization

What are your success secrets of personal organization?

Maybe at this point of time you don’t feel very successful when it comes down to being organized but even starting to clear clutter and look at easy organizational keys can improve how you manage your day. So what happens when you start to use some organizing ideas?

Benefits of being organized

Feelings of achievement

What was overwelming can become an adventure to solve

Tall mountains become small hills

Journey becomes fun

Save time

What is your success?

Your success may be a well run home, more “you” time, a better balance of family and work or balance of work, study and family with greater ease. Your organizing success may include sailing through a life transition, coping well with a steep learning curve and dealing with a new business, study or a move without difficulty. What ever your challenges are, starting to organize yourself will allow you to face the ups and downs of life with greater optimism, creativity, happiness and self satisfaction.

Create a comforting structure

Creating a personal organizing system can be a comforting structure that carries you through rough or bumpy waters such as a big deadline at work, unexpected errands or must do’s that crop up, a sick child or anything that is not on your daily plan. This means what was a huge hurdle becomes a small bump on the road, because you have a structure that keeps you positive and focused matter what extra tasks are put on your plate.

What is your organizational fingerprint?

Do you tackle the hardest tasks first or leave them for last. Do you like to write things down or go with the flow. How much do you procrastinate and where. What do you love doing and what do you not?

Personal Organization begins with little rituals you do every day which over time become habits you no longer have to think about. These rituals are the beginning of increasing your productivity and efficiency and form a foundation of success that powerful organizational habits can be built upon.

It is a pattern of thinking, feeling and doing that coordinates your daily activities with clear priorities with the big picture in mind. This means that we all have to discover what systems, habits and routines work in our lives so we can experience a level of personal success to enjoy family, work and create fullfillment in our lives and have more fun.

The challenge with becoming personally organized is making a commitment to the daily, weekly or monthly rituals that have the potential to become effortless habits.

Here are ten little rituals which can be your success secrets to living organized. Experts say it takes twenty one days to make a habit so choose what you can do and add the ritual into your daily plan until it becomes a habit you can’t live without.

Start your hour of power. The truth is it can be as little as fifteen minutes for you in the morning. This time can be used to get clear on what you want to achieve for the day and get into a positive can do zone. You can practice affirmations, visualize how you want your day to flow, focus in on your goals or refresh with some exercise . Integrating even a few minutes to get centered and feeling good adds amazing energy and momentum to your day.

Start to write things down. This is a habit that takes seconds. This can range from your grocery list, a calendar, to do or to buy list, to  taking the time todetail your vision and  goal setting. There is magic to writing what you want down and it really gets things happening. Getting into the habit of writing is a foundation of  getting clear on what you want and creating flexible plans, another great organizing yourself skill.

Set some boundaries. This is simply valuing your time and yourself to create a balance between your time and tasks for the day. One of the Clutter Free Decision Making Keys is to set limits and this is a valuable key to successful personal organization. You can’t be everything to everyone all the time and setting limits lets you minimize that non productive busy time and maximize the time you spend on getting results. Start to say no to the things you feel obligated to do that don’t have any purpose in your life. Say yes to the things that connect you to where you want to go and be.

Flexible Planning is another ritual to adopt. Writing down plans on how to meet that deadline, start that course, organize the children or declutter that space and organize the room are great as long as you look at them as a way to get your thoughts in order and tap into your creative subconscious. Too many times a rigid plan is make only to be thrown away because the steps were too hard.

Plans need to be flexible. Sometimes you may have missed a step, leaped over several of them or what you want has changed. Sometimes getting to that next step releases a fantastic idea which lets you short cut your way to your goals. Make a plan but add, rewrite and restructure to give you a clear step to the end result.

Focus on your outcomes. This brings me to another important point that the process of becoming organized is to focus on your clear outcomes more than the steps you need to take you there. This leaves room for inspired thinking, synchronicity and positive opportunites. Somethimes just knowing the next step is all you need.

Start to set small goals. Set five small goals a day even if these are on your to do list. Cross out what you achieve and rewrite the unrealized goals on tomorrows to do list or let them go. Create a sense of purpose, power and achievement by creating a ritual of following through and learning to choose your goals carefully.

Focus on your well being every day. What can you do that makes you feel centered, calm and happy?  What can you do to support your health, enhance your creativity and just make you feel good.  Add this to every day and make it a priority.

Let go of clutter. Clutter can get you off track. What are you holding onto that makes life a little harder and more complicated? Too much clutter can create distractions and be a roadblock to organizing yourself. Organize an hour decluttering session as one of your goals every week.

Get organized. Organizing what you own creates a sense of order and purpose in your home which influences your sense of order and purpose in your life. Start to organize your home to organize your life. It’s hard to find the energy for your goals when you don’t know what to make for dinner or finding clean clothes is impossible. Include organizing into your decluttering hour and watch your home and life transform.

Start an inspiring night time ritual that lets you get up feeling positive the next day and start this by turning off the T.V. and computer a little earlier each evening. Take some time to read inspiring literature, review your goals and see them accomplished, update your personal calendar, do some journaling, listen to relaxing music or write in a gratitude journal. What you see and read or reaffirm will sift through your subconscious during the night often creating instant solutions and exciting ideas the next morning.

Success secrets of personal organization are:

  1. Hour of Power
  2. Write things down
  3. Set boundaries
  4. Flexible Planning
  5. Focus on Outcomes
  6. Set small goals
  7. Increase your wellbeing
  8. Let go of clutter
  9. Get organize
  10. Create an inspiring night time ritual

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