How To Organize Your Life In A Single Day
[0:00:00] So, in the Lord of the Rings, we hear Bilbo
Baggins say, “I feel thin.
Sort of stretched like butter scrapped over too much bread.”
Does this describe you in the busyness of your life?
Guys, if you’re overwhelmed, you’re gonna love today's video ‘cause I’m talking
about how to organize your life in less than a single day.
Step #1: You've got to commit.
You've got a resolve to get this done.
Now, to make that easier, 3 things I would advise: Number 1: Go ahead and schedule this
into your calendar.
Then you wanna put yourself in a different environment.
Whenever you're scheduling this, maybe go to your favorite coffee shop.
Maybe actually look at that hotel you’ve been wanting to check out, rent a room.
Not that you're gonna spend the night there, but you're gonna use it as an office.
You’re gonna get things done.
Put yourself in an environment where you can avoid distraction and then find a way to hold
yourself accountable.
For some of you guys, it's gonna be as easy as telling your partner what you’re gonna
do, maybe your wife.
Maybe you’re gonna hire someone who will call you at multiple points and they are just
a good friend that would do this for you to make sure that you're doing what you're doing
and check in on you at the end and actually ask to see everything you've put together.
All right.
So, you’re committed.
You've got skin in the game.
Now, let’s go to step #2.
Identify what is the priority, what is important.
We’re gonna spend 30 minutes here and we're gonna go into the deep Pareto Principle.
Remember that things that are most important, they're gonna yield you that big return on
your investment.
Now, to identify what’s important, let’s go to our trustee priority matrix.
Right here at the top, we've got what's important.
Now, you're gonna have some things that are urgent, some things that are not urgent but
still need to be addressed because they’re important.
What you wanna be careful of is everything down here at the bottom.
These are things maybe that are screaming for your attention.
They’re urgent, but they're not important.
Or these things that are not important or not urgent that you do when you're procrastinating
and you feel like maybe you're getting something done, you gotta be careful of these things
at the lower part of the priority matrix.
Now, let's go to step #3 and you're gonna spend 45 minutes here.
Let's focus on being productive.
Gents, to organize your life effectively, you need to be productive.
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Step 4 and this one’s really important, gentlemen, what is your north star?
What is your azimuth?
What are you using to have direction in your life?
Guys, you've got to identify this and lay it out for yourself.
Nobody can do this for you.
And this is incredibly important because there are gonna be things that are gonna hit you
throughout life and you need to have a direction.
You need to have a purpose.
You need to have an aim for where you're going because otherwise you're gonna get lost in
life.
And guys, the best way I know to do this is to actually imagine what do you want people
to think and to say about you at your own funeral.
For me, I wanna be a faithful loving husband.
I wanna be a good friend who stood by others.
I wanna be a father who provided and not only thought about my kids, but I thought about
other people's kids.
I wanna be someone who is remembered as being kind, as being honest.
And when you've got this laid out, when you know what you stand for, what your north star
is, guys, you're gonna be able to accomplish mission.
Next up, gents, let's build better routines.
And we're gonna focus in on your morning routine, your afternoon routine, and your evening routine.
Now, oh, wait a minute.
You don't have a routine?
Yes, you do.
You've got default habits that you're falling to.
And these default habits may be bad habits.
Well, guess what?
You're gonna map them out, then you're gonna have a routine.
Even if this is something you've never called a routine, you do have something that you're
doing consistently again and again.
We wanna map out this routine even if it’s bad.
The point here, gentlemen, is you're gonna break out your routine so that you can adjust
it, so you can start to optimize it.
The next step, gentlemen, is all about measurement.
The measurement of progress.
Nothing encourages you to do something more than actually seeing that what you're doing
is having an effect, a positive or even negative affect, but being able to see that correlation.
So, going to the gym or taking my kids to the pool, spending time exercising with them.
Guess what?
I’ve got a streak going.
I am not gonna want to break the streak.
Very simple right here.
I just use a simple calendar and I know what this X stance for.
Every day that I do it.
I'm proud and I'm not gonna break that streak.
Now, when it comes to drinking water, I fill this up in the morning here in my office.
[0:05:01] I’ve got to drink all this before I leave
my office.
This is a great way to measure that I’m drinking water.
Not very high tech.
And if you want it high tech, guys, tons of apps out there.
I’m gonna link to some of my favorites down in the description.
But if you wanna reach financial goals, you wanna reach fitness goals, guys, apps can
help you out.
Next up, gents, let’s talk about automating and systemizing as much as you can in your
life.
Now, this is something I know a lot of you guys already do with bill pay, many of you
guys do when you see payments.
But guys, you can do this with so many other places in your life.
You're going out shopping at the store.
How many of those items can you actually have delivered to your house for actually the same
cost or even less if you sign for a subscription service?
So many different subscription services, guys, whether it's gonna be razors, whether it's
gonna be skin care.
Tons of options out there.
Look for places where you can automate where you’re doing things again and again and
you can save yourself time by recording or setting up a system that basically takes care
of it for you.
Now, I know this next step is gonna be difficult for some of you, guys, but you need to make
no your default answer.
You can't say yes, but it needs to be a hell yeah.
And the majority of the time, guys, you need to start saying no because these people ask
you to volunteer, these people are asking you to do a favor.
Guess what?
They are gonna take up all your time and then you're not gonna have the opportunity when
great things come along.
You’re just gonna be too packed.
You're not even gonna see ‘em.
You need to free up time.
You to free up margin in your life.
You don't wanna become so overwhelmed by saying yes to everything.
Instead, say “hell yeah” to the things that really matter and say no to almost everything
else.
All right, gentlemen, so we’re on a roll here.
We're gonna have fun.
Let's go through and ruthlessly declutter.
First up, gents, let’s clean off this phone.
Do you need 100 apps?
No.
Get rid of anything you haven’t opened for at least a month.
Then look at all those infinity pulls.
I’m talking Facebook.
I'm talking Instagram.
I'm talking YouTube.
Yes, YouTube.
Get rid of it, guys.
Be careful of having too many apps on your phone, things that distract you, things that
just basically unorganize your life.
All right, gentlemen, so let’s talk about e-mail.
Let's talk about your inbox.
How many messages do you have?
50, 100, 200, 1,000.
But maybe actually wanna create a new e-mail account.
And guess what?
Just simply forward the important things.
Go through maybe the first 1,000 or 2,000 messages and forward it and then close off
that other one.
Log out of it.
Yes, log out.
If you need to go into it, you can still recover that e-mail address.
Because guess what?
You've got a new e-mail that you don't have to actually unsubscribe from anything.
You could be much more careful with this one and you could only give this to people that
really need to have your e-mail.
All right.
So now, let's talk about physical surroundings.
You wanna declutter your office.
You wanna declutter your home.
How to get started?
Well, first, put on some great music and then grab a trash bag.
And you're going after 100 items that you can throw in there.
You wanna gamify this.
You wanna put on something that you enjoy listening to.
Maybe an audiobook.
You're not gonna get everything done probably the first run through.
But guess what?
You're gonna get started.
And again, being able to see and measure progress, this is gonna keep you going.
All right, gentlemen, so bringing this all together.
We’re well under 7 including breaks.
Now, it's time to recommit.
It's time to set up another time when we can organize because you wanna be doing this at
least monthly.
Preferably weekly.
I know people that do this every single day.
It's like taking a shower.
Again, go through this again and again ‘cause the more you do this, the easier it's going
to be.
And guys, this is your life.
You're the one that needs to take charge and organize it.
All right, gents, what do you think?
I know a lot of information.
And when I talked about morning routines, evening routines, I know a lot of you guys
have questions.
So, go check out this video right here.
I talk about how to put together an amazing morning routine.
I really break it out.
It's a great video.
Go check it out, guys.
I will link to this as well down in the description.
And gents, that Productivity Master Class: Create a Custom System that Works for You
by Thomas Frank, I’m gonna link to it down in the description directly so you can go
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