Hey guys,
It's the start of the
new financial year plus it's back to school season...
So why not start fresh
with an organized life, new beginning new start, I'll give you my top 5 skills
you need to develop in order to organize your life and stay organized throughout the year.
5 Skills you need to learn
to organize your life:
1. Time Management
Skills:
So Time management is
key to an organized life, you only have 24 hours per day, we spend 8 hours
sleeping, 8 hours working and we end up with 8 hours to work around to get our
life together, so time management is key.
Tips to help you manage
your time:
1. Make a schedule, Planners are
amazing. Use a journal to track what you do everyday, and how much time you spend on each task.
Schedule more time than you think you need for meetings to build in a natural buffer.
2. Make weekly goals to keep yourself
accountable.
3.Prioritize. Write down 3 - 5 must - do priorities
each morning and knock them out early in the day. The task
Priority Sheet is the way to go. Spend more time on your
priorities, time is highly elastic and will stretch to accommodate what we choose to
put into it.
4. Don't be a time waster.
5. Take breaks when you start to lose steam.
2. Filling Skills:
Keep all your bills,
documents, receipts and other important paper in folders for each month out of
the year for easy access just more organization. For expenses you can always
divide them into IN and OUT folders.
Free printable are your
friend.
3. Decluttering:
Having a clean space is
the number one inspiring method to get things done. When you have less stuff to
stumble on when working will make focus more on the job and less on the clutter
around you.
4. DIY Skills:
The most affordable way
to organize your space is by recycling items you already have to serve a
different purpose that what they're meant to.
1. Use a cloths
hanger to organize scarfs.
2. Use a food stand to
display your most worn jewelry.
3. Use a mug holder to
display your necklaces.
5. Labeling Skills:
Labels are used so we
can find stuff more easily, so use plenty of them .
1. Use washi tape to
label electric cords.
Roll out washi tape on a
hard surface and write the name of each item.
Wrap washi tape around
the cords and stick washi tape to washi tape.
Trim out triangle to
create a flag shape and place in your power strip.
2. Use nail polish to
label your keys.
you can write on them
and once the ink is dried seal it with a clear top coat.
3. Label your pantry
jars and spices to make it easier to find everything.
I hope you found these
tips useful to have a more organized life free of clutter.
Please comment and share
with your friends cause I worked extra hard on this post.
Yes, I completely agree with you. Sadly I occupie myself with so many choirs that I forget on most of it to do...because there is always something else to do :-)
ReplyDeletePlease make to do list and check them out once done, just to keep track.
DeleteThis is a great article! I really need to to do the weekly meal planning, not only does it organize your life & your wallet, but it helps with your eating habits!
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