How to Clean Up Your Personal And Business Messes

One of the things you want to do as a real estate investor is you want to clean up your personal and business messes. 

By that I mean you want to clear out anything that is distracting to you. 

A mess can be anything from not paid bills, not organized finances, things not done properly. I even had a set of tax returns not done. 

Anything that is accumulating over time, you want to organize those, and you want to put a plan together to clean up those messes. 

Other things, not, maybe not so urgent, but things like cleaning up the garage. Every time you go out into your car, you see these messes and it's distracting, and you go into different rooms of the house and see messes those. 

Now, I know these messes may not seem like a priority, but if it's distracting you, meaning if it's in the back of your mind that, “Oh, I have to do that”, then you need to clean it up.

I look around the room here and there are a bunch of things that need attending to, that I know are messes. Maybe they're not as distracting to me but at least I'll identify them, and I'll put them down and I'll put together a plan on what needs to be done to clean up these messes. 

For example, maybe you've got some books, your accounting books that need to be cleaned up. Have you done all your tax returns for all previous years? Do they need to be done? Are your monthly invoices up to date? Are your monthly accounting records up to date? You know, your payables, your receipts? Do you need a bookkeeper to help you out with all this stuff?

So you want to go through things and every time you see something that's consuming your mind, that's consuming your thought process and not allowing you to be focusing on what's more important or not allowing you to be creative. 

You want to put those things down and record them. And when you get a chance, you want to put together a plan, an itemized plan and you want to track that. I have a daily planner that I use. You want to put it in your planner, and you want to start executing your plan. Every little thing that you need to be done, you'll put it in there and you'll start tracking them and putting together your day to day plan to address those messes.