1.
Take a break. Think about your life. What is really important to you?
How would you like to live your
life?
Would you like to be healthy and
vital? Write it down.
Would you like to have more fun with
your family and feel the love? Write it down.
Write down the things that are truly
important to you, the things that ten years from now will make you proud.
Now is not the time to worry whether
what you are writing down is feasible or not. Just write down the things that
are important.
And keep in mind that if you write
down ten things or more, then you are probably mixing the urgent with the
important. The important cannot be more than three to five things.
2.
Think about the things you are doing every day. Write them down.
For example, wake up, eat breakfast,
go to work…
Highlight the tasks that you do
daily that are in line with your priorities.
For example, if you walk to the bus
stop, then this step helps your health (which you mentioned in step one as
important). Highlight it.
Did that?
The highlighted stuff is the
important stuff that you do every day. Everything else is urgent.
3.
Cut down on the urgent stuff. Or, else, clear out the clutter.
Some “urgent” activities will just
need to go. Maybe you can wait until later after all to check your picture on Face
book.
Some “urgent” activities will need
to be delegated. Your assistant, if you have one, could actually pay that bill.
Or, you could set up auto-pay with your bank, so that the system does it for
you.
Some others will be better
organized. You could actually make a batch of lunches every Sunday and
Wednesday. This way you only have to go through this process twice, instead of
five times a week.
Wonderful! Now there is some space
opening up in your life!
4.
Run a test week.
Now that your schedule is more open,
it’s time to experience the freedom of it. Try your new life for one week. See
how it works out.
Maybe you will notice that you
should not have delegated some stuff, but some other stuff could actually be
deleted from your life.
Try this for a week to see in
practice what works for you, and then make appropriate changes.
It might take you a couple of weeks
to clear the clutter from your life, testing what activities should go, stay,
be delegated, or better organized, but it’s worth it!
5.
Put in your life more of the important stuff.
Now that you are firmer in what goes
and what stays, it’s time to start putting the important stuff in.
Go back to step one. What is it that
you want? Health? Love?
Put in your schedule activities that
match your priorities.
You don’t have to go over-the-top with this. For example, if you feel you
still don’t have enough time to go to the gym for an hour, then don’t put that
in your schedule.Put in what you think is absolutely feasible, no matter how small or imperfect it seems.
The fact that you think you should be working out for five hours a week does not mean that you have to start doing this on Monday.
A more feasible, sustainable way is to start by doing something that is in the vicinity of where you are but in the direction of where you want to go.
For example, if twenty to thirty minutes of daily exercise is your plan to better health, but you are currently at point zero, then start with five minutes.
Five minutes is close to where you are (zero minutes) and in the direction of your dream (twenty to thirty minutes a day).
…….Done by Faith Gabriella.
