Life Improvement Tips For The Wise Few

At some point in your life you will have to realize how important it is to stay organized, and if your not, then you should pay keen attention to what I write here today. Many times people mistake clutter for how busy they are, and then they call that; “Management”. I see that as plain old fashioned mess, no organizational skills what so ever.

To manage effectively means to be on top of everything, and to be on the top, you have to organized. You have to know the end point, before you can implement the plan. I have seen many workers and managers running their departments like it was a one day job. No structure and no plans. How will you be able to manage your money, if you don’t have a clue how much you have to spend and how much you have to start with.

Life isn’t always going to go the way you have planned, but one thing you can be assured of, and that is that life will return what plans you have for yourself.

To fully understand how to plan and organize yourself, you will have to start planning your steps, as you go along you adjust, but you have to keep your mind focused on the end goal. It’s the end goal that drives what you have planned, and without that your destined to fail.

A famous quote: “Failure to plan is a plan for failure”

So whatever you wish to accomplish, you first have to start with a plan, and I can’t stress that enough. I will hit on my St. Maarteners now, because we (I said we, that means me too) are famous for taking everything in a slow paced fashion. We actually never have a rush to get anything done. Time isn’t important, and we are always in a relaxed mode. Maybe it’s due to the size of the Island, or who knows what.

The biggest benefit we as St. Maarteners gets is when we go away to study, it is then that we see how differently other people live and that is when we honestly see how organized other societies function. And that alone should say why so many of our attitudes remain the same, because we didn’t learn anything while abroad, or we have never been over seas to learn from other cultures.

The true meaning stems from adjusting and learning as you go, your biggest problems occurs when you come back home. You have to re-adjust, otherwise many people will dislike your attitude, but I don’t believe you should adjust to anyone style.

The work around here is to always be at your best, and to start organizing your life from a very young age, and actually adapting new ways to get things done faster. For me, there is only one way to get things done faster and that is to not put off what you can do today for tomorrow.

Keeping track of your life is so important and a part of life I wished that I had known when I was much younger, because it creates a much better organized you, and one with a more functional mind.

The way I go about my day, is to use the web for all my planning and ideas, as an idea hit me and I can’t write it down, I send myself an email reminding me of that idea.

My kids always ask me; Daddy why do you send yourself so many emails?

The idea behind that is to not forget my little brain-farts I get while working. It really makes things simple, for me that is. Even on the job I am very much organized, I never have a cluttered desk, and I always keep track of everything I do on paper. These skills are so important. I write everything down, and that makes it easy for me to retrieve what I am looking for.

Please don’t write on a loose pieces of paper, get a hard cover copy book. I have sections in this book, I write in it, like a Chinese person… I write in the back, then in the front, because I create divisions in the book based on the different subjects or problems that I deal with daily.

To most, that may seem confusing, but like I said, that is my system, you have to find one for yourself, and use it to keep yourself more organized. Once you start organizing yourself, you will see a big change, you won’t be searching through piles of stuff looking for nothing. To be organized is so important, it is the beginning of a new way to getting anything you want in your life.

An organized person is superb at time management, so it doesn’t matter where your at, you should be organized at work and if your going to school, you should be getting organized for school. Learn to organize yourself while your still in school, it will show in your character once you get your own little office space and keep it organized. Skills learned in school will only get better and be more developed once you get older.

I hate walking into a unorganized office, and most of all hate seeing cluttered desk, with loads of papers, some dating back a couple of years. But, those are the managers we see daily. My guess is if your reading this post, then tomorrow your desk will be cleaned… I have seen one office, where they have dust built up on the papers… I know you will be looking at your desk and clearing off your work space tomorrow…

Can you ever be too organized?

I leave you with that one, because many issues will arise once I start on that topic… I leave that for another time.