Embarking on a journey towards efficiency? Discover 21 habits that can transform your life. These practices, adopted by highly organized individuals, can help streamline your routines, enhance productivity, and foster a more organized approach to daily tasks.
Pending Place
Things that come up but you don’t have the time or ability to deal with on the spot, designate a specific place for these things
The 15 Minute Pick-Up
Establish a designated time for strictly picking things up and putting them in their designated places.
Multitask Mind
Double up and do several things in one trip
- For example, if you need to pay a bill, go pay it and stop at the store on the way back to pick up the gallon of milk you need.
- When you get up to use the restroom, check the room. Is there anything that needs to be put away? Take it with you
Incorporate Teams
It is nearly impossible to achieve any great success all alone. Know how to create cohesive teams that catapult you toward success
- Belief: There’s no ‘I’ in team. I can form teams that make me stronger
- Teams are one of the essential success habits
Work Hard/Don’t Slack
Take breaks to recharge, but never give up. Work harder.
- Never give up, and never give in. Work through obstacles, and don’t give up easily. Work until you make it, then take a step back and assess your progress.
Two Things
Pick 2 things daily to get rid of or eliminate
Avoid Negative Thoughts
Belief: I’m an amazing person. I can do anything I set my mind to. You have everything you need to become who you want to be. Say these beliefs in your head every day. Believe it…and back your belief up with actions that support your belief.
Your ‘True Colors’
Identity-based habits are more successful in the long term
- They originate from within
- You begin to establish success habits from the inside out
- In other words, your core beliefs that play like tapes in your head, are all based upon the person you actually want to be
- Back those affirmations up with small daily actions (habits) that help you to become that person
Financial Awareness
Develop a system for tracking profit and loss and returns on investment
- Knowing exactly where money goes allows you to identify where you can cut back in the case of an emergency or unexpected expense
- Here are some ways to start: better money habits, budgeting, savings, etc.
How do they do it?
Organized people are extremely attuned to their thoughts
- What you do and the habits you have are directly proportionate to whom you believe you are
- They have the mental strength to create solid, motivating core beliefs
- The major advantage to identity-based habits is that they’re based upon who you believe yourself to be
- It all begins and ends with inner core beliefs
Organize Healthy Food Lists
Have a list of foods that are common to the restaurants you frequent so you’re familiar with the nutritional value of them
Diversify & Multiply
Take all of your past regrets and failures and find the lessons you learned from them
Plans of Actions
Create systems, manuals, plans of action and step by step processes for as many aspects of your work as possible to enable you to easily repeat processes.
Compartmentalization
Prioritize tasks and box the rest
De-clutter Your Work & Living Space
The more your work and living space is de-cluttered, the clearer your mind is.
- A de -cluttered work/living space produces a de-luttered mind.
- Belief: A de-categorized space equals a more clear mind.
Write everything down
The act of writing down tasks clears your mind so that you can remain creative
- To help you get started, create SMART goals for your organizational skills
- Some of the best organization apps are: Scrivener, Organizer, Keep Track, Organize, KeepScrapbook
Face Your Goliaths
If you want to succeed, you need to first acknowledge and then face your fears
Know Who’s Who & What’s What
Don’t allow stress or overwhelmed emotions make you believe it’s easier to just do it yourself. Know when to delegate and whom to delegate what to.
- Successful people know when they need to do something themselves, but they also understand that success is not about doing everything on your own. It’s about empowering those who work for you to do more.
Understand Psychological Triggers
While their thoughts are their most powerful, there are also some external triggers that are lifesavers too.