What’s the number 1 reason that most people can’t find the time to get organised?
Because they’re too busy being disorganised!
Many people can’t get organised, simply because they’re too busy being disorganised.
As author Patrick Lencioni says in his book The Advantage, sometimes we “have to go slow to go fast”.
If we keep pressing on in a state of overwhelm, we will perpetuate the overwhelm.
Because, in the modern world, the hump is never going away.
Especially if you’re someone with a conscientious eye for improvement: you’ll always have more that you want to do.
Instead, bite the bullet and stop. Carve out some time to:
- Write down every single task you can think of: review your goals, e-mails and calendar, existing to do lists, notebooks – everything – for anything you could do
- Draw a two by two Eisenhower matrix and label the axes “More urgent > Less urgent” and “More important > Less Important”
- Plot all of your tasks across the four quadrants
- Finally, plan your week:
- Prioritise the urgent and important (this is what you should do)
- Schedule the important and less urgent for later
- Delegate the urgent and less important
- Eliminate the less urgent and less important
It doesn’t take long, usually only an hour or two. And it’s best repeated every week.
Feeling organised doesn’t just make you more impactful, it makes you feel good: stress levels drop as our sense of control increases.
