From Chaos to Calm: 4 Simple Tips for Organizing Your Day

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you." Jim Rohn

Time is strange.?

Some weeks pass leaving you feeling productive and accomplished. And then some weeks pass and you question where the time went, having nothing to show at the end. But time is always passing at the same rate.

How you manage your time has much to do with how you experience time. When you are organized and scheduled, you move through the day feeling prepared and confident. When you approach the day without a plan, it is easy to fall victim to time. The biggest imposter is distraction.

The world around us is filled with distractions, phones pinging, pop-up ads, emails, text messages, oh my! For every random thought you have, there is a new internet tab. I have yet to mention the crying child in the background, the plumber at the door, and the dryer beeping.

It is easy to get thrown off track, so your plan for the day needs to be foolproof.?

1. Cluster your to-do items that fit well together.?For instance, if you are expecting a repair person to your home, first confirm when they should arrive and ask for a 20-minute call ahead. Assuming the requests are honored, you can complete mindless household tasks while waiting for them to arrive and then again while they work.
2. Create a physical landing page to gather all your random thoughts and curiosities during your day.?Writing them down signals to your brain that it can release the thought rather than trying to retain it. At the same time, you aren't entertaining the thought in live time, distracting you from where your attention needs to be.
3. Redesign your daily to-do list by dividing it into Must-Dos and Hope-Tos. By having this list created, it's easier to make use of small pockets of time as they come up throughout the day. Perhaps a Zoom meeting is running late by ten minutes? In those ten minutes, you could wash the dishes, throw in a load of laundry, return one or maybe even two phone calls, or arrange the Fed Ex pick-up for packages.?When a to-do list is unavailable, you often float through the ten minutes, scrolling through social media or goofing around online. At the end of the day, you have a pile of things to get to, including the laundry, the dishes, the email, the phone calls, the mail pile, and the list goes on.?Give this a shot, and you will be STUNNED at how much you can accomplish in ten minutes.
4. Have a consistent sleep-wake cycle.?This tip is especially important for those who work from home. Even if you're not going to a physical office, set your alarm AS IF you are waking up to commute. Go to bed at the same time every night. Staying up later into the evening night after night naturally changes your motivation to get going early in the morning. Instead, you find yourself hitting snooze and chasing the day to make up for the lost time.

This isn't to say that every moment needs to be planned. There is value in spontaneity and enjoying the moment. But you'll be able to fully embrace those unstructured moments without feeling guilty or burdened by unfinished tasks.

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