get organised

1. Find an elephant (i.e. set a goal).
2. Break it down. Break the goal down into small manageable steps. This will help me to stay focused and not feel so overwhelmed.
3. Steps can be tasks or even entire projects.
4. In the event that a step is a project, break the project down into tasks.
5. Keep a task-list (todo-list) & have it with me at all times to add things as they spring to mind.
6. Prioritise each step (project and/or task) based on how significantly it moves me towards meeting my goal.
7. Schedule time every day to work on the goal. Do Priority A Work during my peak time of the day.
8. Schedule Priority B Work (i.e. daily, weekly, monthly tasks, projects & appointments that are part of the work that must be done in order to maintain the status quo) after or between Priority A Work (because this work does not require high levels of concentration, it can be done during non-peak periods as long as it is completed on schedule).
9. Identify what I need to get each step (project and/or task) done & get it.
10. What’s the (or a realistic) deadline?
11. Roughly divide all steps involved into an equal amount of work every day (allow myself more time than I think I need)
12. Schedule in breaks.
13. Reward myself with fun stuff AFTER I worked on my goal
14. Keep track of my accomplishments with a tada-list. Update it every evening.
15. Every evening re-prioritise & decide on 3-5 tasks to accomplish the next day. Focus ONLY on those tasks & complete them before moving on to new tasks.

Project A —-> GOAL <—- Project B
. Task (Project A) . Task (Project B)
. Task (Project A) . Task (Project B)
. Task (Project A) . Task (Project B)

1. Taking action is essential!
2. Visualise where I want to be in a month’s time, in six month’s time, in a year’s time & write it down!
3. Say NO to time robbers!

1. my little (now steaming hot) head & everything inside
2. http://www.ehow.com/how_5416009_eat-elephant-time-management.html
3. http://www.ehow.com/how_4763224_projects-according-time-management-prioritization.html
4. http://www.youtube.com/user/MakerofMillionaires#p/a/u/2/EuzlId8q2RA
5. http://www.reply-mc.com/2007/06/22/how-to-eat-elephant-of-organizational

Step #3: Identifying why I’ve not been organised so far

Today I’ve been reflecting, identifying, thinking and researching a bit on why I’m so lost in a forest of amazing opportunities and totally unable to grab them. I think it’s because…

1. I got overwhelmed.
2. I lost focus.
3. Having lost focus caused me not to take action.
4. Not taking action caused me to feel even more overwhelmed. Back to square one.
5. I got more lost and even confused.
6. I went round and round in this vicious mind numbing cicle until I realised today that…

Re-gaining focus and taking action are my new best friends! And I will stop running and just walk in a pace that allows me to retrace my steps. Shifting from hare into the hedgehog-mode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZwVgQ4Wq7E (The Cure ‘A Forest’)

1. reflect about things that happened or things I’ve done^{keep a daily diary}
2. identify what I like/what helps me and what I don’t like/what doesn’t help me^{make lists}
3. think about ideas how to improve^{take time out for myself}
4. research resources, find more ideas & tips how to put my ideas into practise^{read and youtube}
5. plan future steps, give them an order and a time-line^{prioritise and schedule}

How can I break this/any goal down into smaller more tangible steps (goal = project? task = step? job = action = task = step?)^{I’m a little confused how the hierarchy works with this}

1. get my database organised and up-to-date
• add all my social networking contacts that I’ve actually met to my database
• organise my “followers” and “fans” somehow

Now that i have started to work, life is much more organised with little time on spillage.

Morning rush, hectic day, homemaking in the evening, dose off in the tiredness! Weekends for shopping, outing and relaxing is just my perfect kinda life i have always wanted it to be

Iam liking it!!!

Just got convinced that acually good plan will solve all other problems like good diet(planning meals and shoppin make so much diffrence), and planning my study,my workouts,my sleeping, my parites, my nites out… So back to roots as I said last week…
Today is thursday, day off for me.. all day at home.. feel full of food in my belly and not acually that much done! So start from orgenisning this goals. here.

the one thing i love procrastinating and hate it get done… Ironing… I have to learn the art of keeping clothes ironed soon as they are washed especially hubby’s work dress!

Gotto get in to the habit of not piling ironing clothes!! One thing tat am really bad at :-(

Is 24 of October.. n Acally I am back to roots.. so starting from 0…back to weekly plan again.. and keep my diary … open every morning and eve to see what to do.. It all started again last thursday.. I just made a good plan on wed and got so much done on thursday as it was only my day off that week.Planning definetly works but I thinks so I need to plan leisure time as well and all those thinks which are not neccesery but I will do them anyways like fcbkc n,youtube music n boys.. so plan them too!
ok early new year revolution coming up..
so gonna look in the diary now and see how much should be done 2day and how much was!

after being sick i really put an effort in with the house.
ive started to slide a little though, stopped my diary planning and really need to get back to doing that because it was really helping.
feeling a bit meh at the moment…dont want to let it hold me back

One good thing that the new house has forced me to is get up at 6.00 everyday… am done with my morning duties by 8 then bath, pray and breakfast by 10.00… that means am set for my day’s start early…

• i have started applying for jobs and have had an interview too.. waiting for their call and hoping its a success…
• have not started much on self developing skills and haven’t been on my blog for a while now…
• House is pretty much set but am yet to set the balcony and kitchen with some plants also put some pics of ours in out bedroom…

am sure to geer up faster and find myself again :-)