Hey welcome back to another video
It is francesco here today's video is going to be
10 ways to get
Organized now for recent feedback. I know a lot of you guys have been pressing me to make these sorts of videos and I will
Be making more of these so hopefully they provide you with a few tips and tricks do getting organized in your daily routine
now just to let you guys know I use all of these tips and tricks as I go about my day when I plan my
Day, and I do my freelancing work
They really do help me to just keep organized and stress-free
So feel free to use them where and how you see it useful so the first one on the list is
Setting clear goals and targets now when it comes to being productive the best way to keep organized is actually to set yourself
Clear goals now it sort of makes sense actually having those clear goals will help
Anything that you do
Whether it's the book
You read or the podcast you listen to or even like the things you do in the evening it will help matter that bigger goal
Now when I look at my sort of monthly targets and three monthly targets
They all help to provide me with a bit of clarity of what I should be focusing on and they really do set the stage
for my day
So actually viewing or looking at your clear goals every single morning or even just in the afternoon for two or three minutes
Will help you to keep focused and to keep?
Organized the second tip to keeping organized is to craft a bit of space for yourself
I think this is a really important tactic to have if you have a little area
Maybe it's against the wall in the side of your house
I have the desk area which is very helpful
But a place where you can call your own that you can control the area like you can control
What goes there really does gives you a bit of clarity? I remember in my
Previous house I actually had a desk that I had all my stuff on because it was a shared house
And it just provided me with a bit more control now
It's such a simple idea
But giving you this opportunity to store all of your items in one place whether it's an entire room
Or a small little area in your house it will provide you with a bit of control and a way to start keeping you organized
So the third tip is to master the structure of your to do this
Application I speak to so many people that have a really simple to do this application, but it works for them
and I really love that because once you've made a strong base with your to do this application or
Your to do this list on physical paper it provides you with so much more clarity
Sometimes when you have a busy day and schedule and things get in the way it can chop and change about and the great thing
About having a strong base when you to do this now or list provides you with more scalability so for example
Let's say you go from an accountant role to head of accounting in the space of a week
And you freak out because you've got so much more responsibilities so much more items then that
Scalability actually is there for you so being able to master. That is so very important to your organization
My fourth tip is to plan your week ahead
The week before now. This is a really small thing but can make so much value
I know many people who actually do Monday and Tuesday's as they're planning days which is absolutely fine
Whatever works for you
But actually having your week plan before you go into it
Really does give you more chances of success and gives you a better outline now
We speak to a lot of people who have days that change about and it's a bit manic it looks manic
but
Having a week plan before will give you a bit of an outline and then during the week and your day gets busy or shaken
Kjetil gets busy you can chop and change
But when it comes to the week ahead grabbing Friday or Saturday to do
1020 minutes of planning towards that week will really save you some valuable time even number five
Again a very simple one getting all of your clothes ready the night before now this is something
I started doing about maybe seven eight months ago, and I did it a little bit when I was a kid
But actually having your clothes ready the night before will really help your
Decision-making in the morning to be reduced if you're looking to get organized
This is a great tip and you can apply this to lots of different aspects of your life like for example
I started putting my tea out with the tea bag in it really for the morning
So I'd literally just have to put the kettle on and pour
Versus actually finding a cart finding the teabag and putting it in there in my early morning days
tip number six another really simple one is stick with fewer productivity applications
Remember less is more sometimes, and I only keep to about three or four main productivity applications
They don't use across my day, and that's a maximum that scales across all of the different aspects of my workload
And it's really simple to do that now of course you want to maybe try a few to be the sample trifling note-taking apps
but making sure you keep it minimal and
Resourceful will provide you so much more so making sure you have less than more is very beneficial
number seven is reviewing your day before it kicks off at the standard the morning what I tend to do is grab my
Calendar and that tends to be on my phone
and I'll just scroll through my day to make sure that I'm aware of all of the meetings that I have on and
What I tend to think my schedule or even the structure of the day will be now having this little pre like session with myself
provides me with the ability to
Get a feel for my day and understand where I need to put my energy into and where I need to pause
When I need to get there tip number eight to getting organized is planning words sub tasks or checklists
Will provide you with so much more value so for example if you have Evernote or even a to-do list application
Using checklists at the start of your day will give you a really nice
Kickstart what I tend to do in the mornings is if I want to have like a good start to my day
I'll do some really small less than five minute items
And I'll do about five or six even ten of them sometimes to get the ball rolling now. There's nothing worse
I guess in my day than having a really stressful big task on in the morning
I want to ease into my day and a lot of time
I'll do all these short items to get the ball rolling now that might be completely opposite to you
You might like doing a big most important item as you start your day
I tend to have it after I do those sorts of things first, but it depends on totally what you are
But having that first task or those multiple tasks will help you to get the ball rolling as you go about your day
Remember you want to feel like you're stuff in the morning so that you can achieve stuff later on in a day
And you can keep that momentum going number nine is to be fluid with your schedule despite changes now
We all know at work sometimes our meeting schedule changes
or even another item comes along the most important list and you're like ah
What do I do now I used to be like this a lot before maybe about a year ago
Or a year and a half ago. I would if we changed like schedule on the weekends
I would sort of freak out and maybe get a bit grumpy
But actually having the ability to be flexible
And sort of fluid with the changes in your routine will providing would so much more
And they really did help me
Do that and I found it so useful when I was a bit more fluid with the routine so be open to that
And obviously you don't spend all of your time in order to do this application changing your day
You just need to spend five minutes
And one of my final tips that I probably came across in the last three months
But despite having a phone for many many years is actually organizing your home pages now
I have two simple home pages a go on scroll one is up the main apps two is all of the additional apps and
Actually having this level of organization and structure really has saved me huge amounts of time
And we didn't think it would but you know actually having that set up has really provided me time
I used to download apps and just leave them everywhere and now that actually has
Saved me a lot of time so even 5-10 minutes fixing that in your evening might be very useful for the week ahead
So just before we go a little bonus one from me. I don't check emails in the first hour
I find it very distracting when emails pop up and especially when you want to jump on them and do them in the morning
Sometimes actually could be quite stressful, so I try to avoid them in the first hour
Maybe you should try and doing that as a way to take control of your mornings anyway guys
I hope that you enjoyed some of those
organization tips
Hopefully they were useful. Let me know in the comments below some of your habits and routines that you found beneficial
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