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Today, we are going to focus on how to Organize your Life. And I say life because there are many of you who like Crystal and I, live in constant motion, moving from one set of activities to another requiring different tools in each subset in order to remain efficient and as productive as possible. This could include being organized as a single or dual income parent, while being organized at work, while being organized in health and fitness, while being organized in your business or side hustle. Each group of activities require varying degrees of organization to ensure the best possible outcome. This ensures that you are capable of getting the most done with the time that you have available.
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Back again!!! With another episode of the Undeniable Level Up Podcast. Last week we covered the importance of not confusing motion for action. We shared 11 rules to help you avoid getting caught up and lost in motion, so that you are able to take deliberate action. This is important to ensure that you are able to accomplish your goals and objectives and get after winning.
If you're just joining us for the first time today, I invite you to go back and listen to some of our earlier podcast where we cover some important topics having to do with leadership, entrepreneurship and business. Topics that include Finding Your WHY, Living your values, Defining Success and our favorite, Extreme Ownership.
Today, we are going to focus on how to Organize your Life. And I say life because there are many of you who like Crystal and I, live in constant motion, moving from one set of activities to another requiring different tools in each subset in order to remain efficient and as productive as possible. This could include being organized as a single or dual income parent, while being organized at work, while being organized in health and fitness, while being organized in your business or side hustle. Each group of activities require varying degrees of organization to ensure the best possible outcome. This ensures that you are capable of getting the most done with the time that you have available.
Read Quote: Christina Scalise says "Organization isn't about perfection, it's about efficiency, reducing stress and clutter, saving time and money and improving your overall quality of life."
Q: Do you agree with Christina, that organization isn't about perfection? What are your thoughts on organization?
It is possible to have organization in one aspect of your life and not in others. For example, you might be very organized at work but struggle to find that same organization at home.
There are many reasons why someone might find themselves disorganized and overwhelmed in one or multiple aspects of their lives. The first could be lack of focus. According to NBC News, there is evidence suggesting that having too much visual stimulus can cause your attention to falter. If your home is cluttered and there is too much stimulus you may find productivity at home to be poor as your attention bounces between stimuli. Some happens if your work desk is cluttered and there's papers all over the desk top.
Q: How have you found working from home? What have you done to combat an inability to focus? How does clutter affect your ability to be productive?
Another reason for disorganization in your life is that you are constantly procrastinating . Telling yourself that you will do it later instead of just getting it done now. You continue to put if off and eventually it gets done late, or worse, it never gets done at all. This could be as simple as throwing that full laundry basket of laundry into the washer or meal prepping for the week. Delaying certain tasks eventually result in a build up of competing requirements against your very limited resources of time.
Q: What things do you typically procrastinate on? How do you avoid procrastinating?
A third reason for disorganization in your life comes from having unrealistic expectations. Having unrealistic expectations can cause you to get stuck, causing work to backlog creating poor efficiency and causing disorganization. At home, this might present as, "I can't go the gym unless the house is completely clean". Or at work as, "I must read every single email and respond by the end of the day".
Q: Have unrealistic expectations ever impacted your ability to get or remain organized?
A fourth cause of disorganization is having too many distractions. At home, this could be the kids, the television, the spouse. Too many distractions pulling you away from what you have planned to do, intend to do or need to do. This includes competing priorities and difficulty with prioritizing.
Q: How do you prioritize so that you get the right things done at the right time? How do you handle distractions?
Finally, an inability to make a decision can result in disorganization. Getting stuck in analysis paralysis and data diving, when you should be making a decision.
Q: How do you make decisions at home versus work? What about Business?
Read Quote: Someone way more intelligent than I once said "For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned.
In today's environment, the world moves at lightening speed. To keep up with the demand on your time, you have to be organized, and have good organizational skills. I have seen smart and talented individuals fail due to the simple fact that they were disorganized.
Being disorganized can cause difficulties in your personal life, wreaking havoc on you finances due to late or missed payments on bills, living outside of your financial means, due to not tracking expenses, missing important dates for family members such as birthdays, anniversaries and graduations. The list could go on.
Q: How have you organized your life? How do you do it as a single parent in the military? As a business owner?
Being disorganized can also damage your professional life as well. Being disorganized reduces your efficiency in the work place, driving down your productivity and costing you time and your employer money. No one appreciates a cluttered work space. Having to hunt for reports, filings and other critical documents can cause you to be viewed as unreliable and disorganized.
Q: How have you organized in your past job positions? What has worked best? What would you recommend to others seeking advice?
Being disorganized can negatively impact your aspirations in health and fitness. Many of us have competing obligations and are often squeezing in health and fitness on the backend of our schedules, conducting these critically important tasks only when time permits, but then it never really does, does it? So you end up skipping that work out, or not eating that healthy meal that you prepped, and now you are having to eat out.
The Mayo Clinic conducted a study that showed disorganized people have more anxiety and stress in their lives. This increases exhaustion levels and is displayed in physical ailments such as headaches and backaches.
Q: How have you organized your fitness objectives so that they were made a priority? How have you done that while serving?
Being disorganized as a business owner is a surefire way to end up with a failed business concept, or with large financial losses and in some extreme cases facing criminal charges with potential jail time.
Owning a business and even running a side hustle requires proper documentation and licensing, in some cases adherence to critical regulatory requirements leaving you subject to inspection and audit by regulatory bodies such as OSHA or even worse, the IRS.
If you have employees, proper tracking of personal information and if you have customers, proper tracking of billing and invoicing information to ensure you are being paid correctly and on time.
Q: How have you organized your businesses to ensure success? Has disorganization ever negatively impacted your operations?
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If you're ready to level up, then I encourage you to purchase the book "What to Do When There's Too Much To Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90-minutes a Day" by Laura Stack. This book will give you the tools needed to save both time and money while reducing your stress and anxiety levels.
(Jose)
Listen, it's time to level up when it comes to organizing your day, your week, your month, hell your life. Stop struggling to find organization in disorganization and begin organizing with intent. It is time to develop realistic expectations with your tasks and goals. Let's stop waiting for later to do something that we know we need to do right now. Let's get away from requiring a perfect scenario for a perfect outcome, and let's stop using perfection as an excuse as to why you can't get things done. Let's reduce the distractions that are keeping us from being undeniable and make quick and definite decisions when it is required of us so that we too can be undeniable in our level up.
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A personal and professional podcast focused on the development of leaders, entrepreneurs and business.
Back again!!! With another episode of the Undeniable Level Up Podcast. Last week we covered the importance of not confusing motion for action. We shared 11 rules to help you avoid getting caught up and lost in motion, so that you are able to take deliberate action. This is important to ensure that you are able to accomplish your goals and objectives and get after winning.
If you're just joining us for the first time today, I invite you to go back and listen to some of our earlier podcast where we cover some important topics having to do with leadership, entrepreneurship and business. Topics that include Finding Your WHY, Living your values, Defining Success and our favorite, Extreme Ownership.
Today, we are going to focus on how to Organize your Life. And I say life because there are many of you who like Crystal and I, live in constant motion, moving from one set of activities to another requiring different tools in each subset in order to remain efficient and as productive as possible. This could include being organized as a single or dual income parent, while being organized at work, while being organized in health and fitness, while being organized in your business or side hustle. Each group of activities require varying degrees of organization to ensure the best possible outcome. This ensures that you are capable of getting the most done with the time that you have available.
Read Quote: Christina Scalise says "Organization isn't about perfection, it's about efficiency, reducing stress and clutter, saving time and money and improving your overall quality of life."
Q: Do you agree with Christina, that organization isn't about perfection? What are your thoughts on organization?
It is possible to have organization in one aspect of your life and not in others. For example, you might be very organized at work but struggle to find that same organization at home.
There are many reasons why someone might find themselves disorganized and overwhelmed in one or multiple aspects of their lives. The first could be lack of focus. According to NBC News, there is evidence suggesting that having too much visual stimulus can cause your attention to falter. If your home is cluttered and there is too much stimulus you may find productivity at home to be poor as your attention bounces between stimuli. Some happens if your work desk is cluttered and there's papers all over the desk top.
Q: How have you found working from home? What have you done to combat an inability to focus? How does clutter affect your ability to be productive?
Another reason for disorganization in your life is that you are constantly procrastinating . Telling yourself that you will do it later instead of just getting it done now. You continue to put if off and eventually it gets done late, or worse, it never gets done at all. This could be as simple as throwing that full laundry basket of laundry into the washer or meal prepping for the week. Delaying certain tasks eventually result in a build up of competing requirements against your very limited resources of time.
Q: What things do you typically procrastinate on? How do you avoid procrastinating?
A third reason for disorganization in your life comes from having unrealistic expectations. Having unrealistic expectations can cause you to get stuck, causing work to backlog creating poor efficiency and causing disorganization. At home, this might present as, "I can't go the gym unless the house is completely clean". Or at work as, "I must read every single email and respond by the end of the day".
Q: Have unrealistic expectations ever impacted your ability to get or remain organized?
A fourth cause of disorganization is having too many distractions. At home, this could be the kids, the television, the spouse. Too many distractions pulling you away from what you have planned to do, intend to do or need to do. This includes competing priorities and difficulty with prioritizing.
Q: How do you prioritize so that you get the right things done at the right time? How do you handle distractions?
Finally, an inability to make a decision can result in disorganization. Getting stuck in analysis paralysis and data diving, when you should be making a decision.
Q: How do you make decisions at home versus work? What about Business?
Read Quote: Someone way more intelligent than I once said "For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned.
In today's environment, the world moves at lightening speed. To keep up with the demand on your time, you have to be organized, and have good organizational skills. I have seen smart and talented individuals fail due to the simple fact that they were disorganized.
Being disorganized can cause difficulties in your personal life, wreaking havoc on you finances due to late or missed payments on bills, living outside of your financial means, due to not tracking expenses, missing important dates for family members such as birthdays, anniversaries and graduations. The list could go on.
Q: How have you organized your life? How do you do it as a single parent in the military? As a business owner?
Being disorganized can also damage your professional life as well. Being disorganized reduces your efficiency in the work place, driving down your productivity and costing you time and your employer money. No one appreciates a cluttered work space. Having to hunt for reports, filings and other critical documents can cause you to be viewed as unreliable and disorganized.
Q: How have you organized in your past job positions? What has worked best? What would you recommend to others seeking advice?
Being disorganized can negatively impact your aspirations in health and fitness. Many of us have competing obligations and are often squeezing in health and fitness on the backend of our schedules, conducting these critically important tasks only when time permits, but then it never really does, does it? So you end up skipping that work out, or not eating that healthy meal that you prepped, and now you are having to eat out.
The Mayo Clinic conducted a study that showed disorganized people have more anxiety and stress in their lives. This increases exhaustion levels and is displayed in physical ailments such as headaches and backaches.
Q: How have you organized your fitness objectives so that they were made a priority? How have you done that while serving?
Being disorganized as a business owner is a surefire way to end up with a failed business concept, or with large financial losses and in some extreme cases facing criminal charges with potential jail time.
Owning a business and even running a side hustle requires proper documentation and licensing, in some cases adherence to critical regulatory requirements leaving you subject to inspection and audit by regulatory bodies such as OSHA or even worse, the IRS.
If you have employees, proper tracking of personal information and if you have customers, proper tracking of billing and invoicing information to ensure you are being paid correctly and on time.
Q: How have you organized your businesses to ensure success? Has disorganization ever negatively impacted your operations?
(CTA)
If you're ready to level up, then I encourage you to purchase the book "What to Do When There's Too Much To Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90-minutes a Day" by Laura Stack. This book will give you the tools needed to save both time and money while reducing your stress and anxiety levels.
(Jose)
Listen, it's time to level up when it comes to organizing your day, your week, your month, hell your life. Stop struggling to find organization in disorganization and begin organizing with intent. It is time to develop realistic expectations with your tasks and goals. Let's stop waiting for later to do something that we know we need to do right now. Let's get away from requiring a perfect scenario for a perfect outcome, and let's stop using perfection as an excuse as to why you can't get things done. Let's reduce the distractions that are keeping us from being undeniable and make quick and definite decisions when it is required of us so that we too can be undeniable in our level up.
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