Organization and Efficiency
What is Physical Organization?
Ideas for Organization during Spring Break
What is Physical Organization?
Physical organization means having the things around you placed in strategic ways so you can easily retrieve them.
Having organized spaces allows you to save time and money. You become more efficient. For example:
1) If your pantry is cluttered, you might think you need to purchase flour when, in reality, you have 2 containers full of flour sitting in the back somewhere. It takes you 5 minutes to look through the clutter - wasted time - and it makes you spend money purchasing more when you don't need it.
2) You go to file your taxes with a tax preparer and you have lost important paperwork that you absolutely need because of clutters of papers sitting around everywhere. Now you have to make calls, get a second copy, get frustrated by having to wait on the phone, get upset when it does not arrive on time...etc. There are plenty of organizers of space and materials who do an amazing job both on television and on the web to help people become more physically organized.
You will get more done in a short period of time - efficiency - just by having strong physical and mental organization skills. You will also have more balance to give all aspects of your life the proper amount of attention they need.
What is Mental Organization?
Ideas for Organization during Spring Break
What is Physical Organization?
Mental Organization is being able to organize and prioritize effectively to get a lot done during the day. For example, if I have 15 things I need to do today and the thoughts about each are just kind of floating in my mind, without a real concrete step-by-step process on which I'm going to do first, which second, and how, I am probably only going to accomplish 2 or 3 of the 15. Having mental organization allows you to not only save time, and money that you can use for other things, but can also help you get more accomplished. Here are two examples:
1) A student needs to write an essay. She procrastinates and keeps putting it off because in her mind, she does not know what to write first, what to write second, and how to conclude. She has a couple of ideas floating around in her mind but can't bring them all together in a systematic, organized way. This causes her high levels of stress and anxiety.
You will get more done in a short period of time - which is the definition of efficiency - just by having strong physical and mental organization skills. You will also have more balance to give all aspects of your life the proper amount of attention they need.
Ideas for Organization during Spring Break
Ideas for Organization during Spring Break
How to Organize Your Life by Organizing Your Mind: 5 Strategies
Spring Break is about fun. It will help, though, to take a day or two to organize and plan for the rest of the year to achieve as many goals as possible. Here are some ideas:
1) Organize and throw away items from drawers in the kitchen.
2) Purchase a planner, if you are not actively using one already.
3) Write down in your planner 4 books you want to read between now and end of December.
4) Write down in planner how much you want to have saved between now and December.
Also write down how much debt you want to have paid off each month.
5) Come up with exercise plan for the rest of the year - one thing you are willing to do each day to stay healthy and fit.
6) Clean and organize pantry and refrigerator.
7) Go through emails and clean out your inbox!
How to Organize Your Life by Organizing Your Mind: 5 Strategies
How to Organize Your Life by Organizing Your Mind: 5 Strategies
How to Organize Your Life by Organizing Your Mind: 5 Strategies
What is mental organization?
Mental organization is systematizing and prioritizing in your mind in an effective way to get a lot done during the day. It is the opposite of mental clutter. This is when there is a lot in a person’s mind but little direction as to what to do first, what to do second, and so on.
Most people are not well-versed or aware of mental organization. They do, however, know what physical organization is and often refer to that as just organization. Mental organization comes before physical organization. You must have ideas and thoughts organized in your mind before you can make your physical spaces organized.
What are the benefits of mental organization?
There are numerous benefits for learning organization skills to improve your life. These benefits include:
· Reduced stress
· Improved sleep
· More focus
Effective Strategies to Break Major Projects into Smaller Parts
How to Organize Your Life by Organizing Your Mind: 5 Strategies
Effective Strategies to Break Major Projects into Smaller Parts
Questions
- Do you ever find yourself wanting to tackle a project or a task but not knowing how to get it started?
- Do you get overwhelmed and stressed out by large projects?
- Are there tasks too daunting for you to either start or finish because of their enormity and complexity?
If you answered YES to any of these questions, this article could help guide you through effective strategies using an organized, systematic, efficient approach.
Projects and Tasks in Everyday Life
The thought of having to do tasks that are large and time-consuming can be daunting. Everyday tasks and chores often get delayed or procrastinated because they seem so grandiose and time-consuming. These tasks include:
- Washing the cars
- Cleaning our homes
- Organizing cabinets and drawers
- Preparing a monthly budget
- Getting taxes done
11 Ways to Stay Organized in Life by Using Microsoft Excel
How to Organize Your Life by Organizing Your Mind: 5 Strategies
Effective Strategies to Break Major Projects into Smaller Parts
Introduction
We know there are many uses of Microsoft Excel in our professional lives and schools. Almost all businesses use or could use Microsoft Excel for organizing important data. In many professions, Excel is relied on heavily for:
Storing and managing data
Data analysis
Preparing reports and visualizing data Financial information tracking and monitoring And more
Microsoft Excel is not taught as widely as other Microsoft Office products in schools and colleges. Other MS Office products that are used most commonly include:
Outlook
PowerPoint
Word
Teams
Other apps are associated with the product, but these four are the most commonly used, including Excel.