How to get organized

Getting organized is essential to be able to take advantage of time... if you always live with the feeling that you are in a hurry and that you don't have time for anything, something is wrong, you have to organize your mind so that your life is orderly! Normally when many things are started and nothing is finished, when one feels that the mind is scattered and that you don't know where to start never to improve things... so you have to start by structuring your days to cover everything you need.

Because covering everything does not mean that in 24 hours you have to carry out an endless list of tasks and until you do all of them, do not go to bed. No. It's not about that. What it is about is prioritizing the activities and tasks that really matter and doing tomorrow or at another time those that perhaps can wait. We all have 24 hours and making the most of them depends on you. So we'll tell you how to get organized.

You can have better results in less time and with less fatigue, but for this, you have to get down to work. What we are going to explain to you next will be useful for your personal, professional or academic life. Thus, over time you will begin to have better physical and psychological well-being... yes, make sure order doesn't become an obsession.

Do not miss all the tips that we are going to give you below so that your valuable time is better used and also discover all the advantages that planning has in your day to day. Learning to organize is a skill you can learn and you can get it, you just have to want to do it!

Eliminate the distractors

The best way to eliminate distractors is to avoid them. Forget multitasking and start organizing tasks. Do not do one without having finished another one previously. If you interrupt one or jump from one thing to another in a short time, your mind will not have had time to focus on any of them. To do this, focus all your attention on what you are doing now and eliminate distractions and interruptions.

Do things continuously and one thing at a time. For example, if you are doing an activity, do not read emails or answer text messages... Finish what is in front of you first and eliminate anything that can break your concentration at that moment, since if it breaks, it will take longer to refocus.

Urgent is not the same as important

When we think that everything is urgent, we forget what really matters in life. What is urgent can almost always wait and what is important must be prioritized. For example, calling your mother, taking care of your health by exercising, go for a walk in nature to recharge batteries or going to see your son at his play, is what is really important.

What is urgent, like a report that cannot wait, actually can... But if you organize yourself well, you will surely do it without stress within the estimated time and you will also have time for what really matters.

Have your life planned with an agenda

An agenda cannot be missing in your life, it is essential not only to organize it, but also to organize your mind. The best thing is that it always goes with you and that it is on paper, avoid electronic agendas that, although it is true that they seem more comfortable, it connects less with the mental organization.

Write down any task that comes up, plan the days of the week and try to make it a week-by-week agenda to be able to see the weekly tasks that you have to carry out in one go.

If you are one of the people who prefers technology, although it is not the best option, it is better than nothing and you can always activate notifications so that nothing happens to you. Although the convenience of the electronic agenda plays tricks on your memory, so if you work trying to remember things by looking at your agenda, much better.

Looking at it three times a day is ideal: one in the morning to organize your day, another at noon to modify what is necessary and another at night to organize the next day and make the necessary modifications.

When you have to write down a big task, do it in small steps so that you know what you have to do at each moment. Do not want to cover more than you can really do.

Keep in mind that there will be days when you can perform more than others. That is, there will be days when you can perform more tasks than others and nothing happens. Prioritize what is really important and the rest, look for another gap in your agenda to carry it out and thus organize it without it getting stuck in your head.

Check and solve the problems that have arisen

In life it is normal for problems to arise and when a day or a week is over, you can review your day and detect the setbacks you have had to deal with. If you still have problems, spend some time in your day to find a solution.

Think about the goals, if you should reformulate them, if you lacked energy, if you prioritized things that you shouldn't, if you took more time than necessary to do a task you thought would take less, etc. Once you detect these problems, think about how to solve them so that, if they appear again, you can solve them better and more effectively.

And remember, when you have to do a task, don't think "I have to do", change your internal dialogue to "I would like to have dinner ready before 8" or "I would love for my bedroom to be cleaned this afternoon". They are subtle changes in the internal dialogue that will allow you to stop procrastinating your time and take advantage of it with greater energy and confidence in yourself and in your organizational capacity and to do things right.