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. Here are some:
https://www.thesimplyorganizedhome.com/
https://www.thebalancesmb.com/organize-and-improve-office-design-2948510
https://zenhabits.net/27-great-tips-to-keep-your-life-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.
2) A patient is told by her doctor she needs to eat better and exercise more to improve her health. Because in her mind she does not know what she needs to buy, or do, or even how to build motivation to exercise and eat healthier, she doesn't follow through. The argument is being made here that she wants to be healthier - everyone wants to be healthier - but since there is no systematic process for what needs to be done in her mind, she does not follow the doctor's advice as well as she should. It's possible for a person to have mental organization but not physical organization. It's also possible to have strong physical organization but not enough mental organization.
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!
8) Clean and organize car or garage - throw away all trash laying around.
9) See which rooms in the home have clutter and organize only those rooms.
10) In your planner, write down how much you can save each month to plan a trip for next year.
11) Search for podcasts of your interest. Write in your planner 1 or 2 that you want to listen to each month.
12) Search for 10 TedTalks that you would want watch one each month between now and December.
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?
Having mental organization has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence. A person who is more systematic and organized is not more intelligent or less intelligent than a person who is not. There are numerous benefits for learning organization skills to improve your life. These benefits include:
· Reduced stress
· Improved sleep
· More focus
· Less accidental forgetfulness to do things
· More productivity
· More timeliness and punctuality
The idea is to have balance between the mental and physical organization to get optimal results, achieve more, accomplish goals, and increase happiness.
Here are 5 strategies and ideas to become more mentally organized to have a healthier lifestyle, be more productive, save time, and have more self-appreciation to be proud of yourself!
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
People often delay doing things for weeks, months, and even years because when they think about the end goal, it seems overwhelming. Stop and ask yourself:
- When was the last time I cleaned and organized my garage?
- I know that my car needs to be checked for maintenance work, but when will I get that done?
- When will I come up with a plan to start exercising each and every day?
- Am I going to devise a well-thought-out plan to finally move out on my own?
- When will I finish reading the book I started?
Even larger projects, tasks, and goals often procrastinate because we feel overwhelmed, swamped, and stressed.