Are you doing the activities needed to reach your goals? You may be thinking it’s because you don’t have time. Well, that is not the reason. It’s how you organize your life…

Some people believe that to change your life, you have to make a 360° turn. In some cases, yes. But a lot of people, just need to be more organize. We tend to think of organize people, as the character of friends, Monica Geller. In the show, she even had 11 categories for her towels! That is overreacting, not to be organized. My point is, to organize your life, you don’t need to get to that extreme.

Before start to organize everything your house, you need to organize your life, and my that, I mean your mind. Problems are a permanent element in life. If you expect to start doing the things you want to do, when you are out of problems, wait till you die, because that is not the issue. The meaning of change your life, is to change what is inside first. So here are a few ideas to get you started:

Organize Your Life Lesson 1. Define what you want in six months

This is as easy as I can put it. I won’t be talking about goals, or purpose, or the meaning of life. Just set this straight to yourself: what do I want to achieve or where do I want to be in six months? Write three things down in a piece of paper, and put it everywhere. You can put it on your mirror, your car, your fridge, your own, your PC.

Let me tell you that classic Christmas story: it’s December 31, and you are thinking you didn’t do this and that; you’re feeling sorry for yourself, and you set your mind to start the year doing all this thanks. By January 15, you’re back in the same business… Am i wrong? This is why defining what you want in six months, and speaking it everywhere, will motivate you to achieve specific goals in a determine period of time.

Organize Your Life Lesson 2. Get yourself a calendar, right now!

Hopefully, you thought about the three things you want to do in 6 months. I think it’s better to be by the year in two, because you may get frustrated of not achieving what you want. Now, if you don’t have a calendar, get it right now! Phil and I worked on a video to help you use a lot of tools (one of them is a calendar) to organize your life. You can watch the video, download the tools, print them out and use them in the same day. Click here to do it today.

Organize Your Life Lesson 3. Reverse engineer your goals

Reverse engineering is management term, to overhaul a process. It means, start from the desired outcome, to know what are the steps to get to that outcome. We are going to do the same. When a piece of paper, put your goal on the bottom of the page. Now, make a vertical line across the page, and start thinking about what steps are necessary to get to your goal.

For example, you simply want to learn a new language, then, you will first have to find out what language do do you like. Therefore, you can check the web, ask a friend, watch videos. Next, you will have to find a school. Next, get the dates and costs, and so on. You see how from a simple idea, I started developing a plan? By reverse engineering, you can plan difficult or simple goals, thinking along the outcome.

Organize Your Life Lesson 4. Mark the date

Once you have the activities, you need to write them down and not to the least, and in your calendar. You need to work with a specific dates. Even if you don’t achieve what you intended on that date, you will pressure yourself to do it. This is better, than just saying “this week I will bla bla”. Instead, you will change your life and say “By July 2nd, I will bla bla”.

Organize Your Life Lesson 5. Motivate yourself

Just because you planned, doesn’t mean you will act. To organize your life, you need to plan first (the previous four steps) and then act. The best way to describe acting, is to think about Nike´s slogan “just do it”. You are “just doing it”, because you have a plan, that we’ll help you get to your goals. You will need to develop a self-help motivation, to achieve them. There will be many times when you think you failed, the journey to keep on going.

With this simple five steps, you will find a way to organize your life effectively. Remember, you don’t have to do this all by yourself. We already created a video to teach you the concept of “life management”, which will be the guideline to organize your life. Also, we included tools you can print and start to change your life. They have no cost on for you, because it is the way that we want to introduce you to the Change Your Life Phenomenon. If you don’t know what is it, click here to read why are we doing this.

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About the Author

Anton Cela is a self development author and consultant. Phillip Cela is a recognized university teacher and speaker on motivation, leadership and self help. Find more about their work on “The Change Your Life Phenomenon”, a world-wide-movement to help people change their lifes at Change Your Life Phenomenon.com You can send us an email or follow “The CHYL Phenomenon” on Twitter.