What?
Within you resides a beast that has the potential to devour your energy, focus and productivity. For lack of a better term, let’s call it the Beast of Disorganization. The Beast feeds on bad habits! The Beast absolutely loves bad habits! It cannot survive without them. The Beast especially loves the fact that disorganized people don’t think of simply changing their habits, but seem to look everywhere else for solutions to their problems. If you are not currently organized, there is a good chance you will never get organized or stay organized until you change some of your counterproductive, chaos-generating habits.
So What?
It’s fairly simple. You have some habits that help you live an organized life and some that lead to chaos and disorganization. Identify and change the habits that are creating the disorganized part of your life if you want to get organized. Set up processes and systems to help support and encourage your good habits. Don’t make getting organized any more complicated than that.
Now What?
A good first step is assigning the responsibility for any disorganization you are experiencing in your life where it belongs…to your counterproductive habits. Very few people seem to seriously address their habits when they decide to get organized. People usually try to solve the problem by buying planners, calendars, personal digital assistants, software and all kinds of gadgets and devices that promise to quickly solve the problem…and then wonder why they don’t work. They may work for a short period of time, but when the newness wears off, the old habits are just sitting there waiting to nurture the Beast.
Some people do try to change the habits that are causing their problems, but they don’t stick with the program long enough. It usually takes 21 to 30 days to starve the Beast.
If you want to stay highly organized, think in terms of habit-based solutions (as opposed to gadget-based solutions). Find processes and systems that help you form and maintain productive habits. When you maintain these habits, you will significantly increase the chances that you will get organized and stay organized.
Habits are either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
Chris Crouch, president and founder of DME Training and Consulting, is the developer of the GO System. The GO System is a structured training course designed to improve focus, organization and productivity in the workplace and is taught by corporate trainers and professional organizers all over the country. Chris is also author of Getting Organized and other books that provide practical and easy-to-learn ideas on personal achievement, success and productivity. Visit http://www.thegosystem.com to learn more about the GO System and for additional ideas on improving focus, organization and productive.
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