The world prefers you’re organized and organizing. The ordering of one’s life, putting your world in place is important but I would argue that it’s essential.
We talk about organization regarding productivity. Productivity and organization are critical to a successful business and a successful life. The price you pay for being disorganized is expensive, and here’s a couple of examples.
Banks Are Not Your Friend
Banks are counting on you not organizing well. Financial institutions like you to be late with your payment, to do an overdraft, to exceed the benefits that they provide.
I’ve seen some statistics that have said that banks make upwards of 40% of their income on fees for their services. Banks set a threshold for your failure and with that keep people continually financially violate.
Society prefers you to be organizing your life. Organizing and staying on top of your world is keeping you from getting fined. You get fined for not filing your business taxes on time. Even if you didn’t owe business taxes you still need to file. You can see the penalties that are built around these types of things cost money.
Cheat Yourself
You show up late to an event and you cheat yourself out of the moment, it’s expensive. Organization, even in its smallest forms changes your world it changes things instantly.
There’s a phrase today we are using, it goes, “Make your bed.” The first thing you do is make your bed. This is the first act of bringing order to your day and it scales up to the world.
Discipline is doing what needs doing even if it’s not enjoyable. Where and how to start? There are one billion different systems out there to choose from. Adopt a system and use it.
Creative Scheduling
It’s what a friend of mine did. I pointed to her appointment book, and I identified her system by name. She said, “Yes, but I changed a little to suit my needs.” Brilliant. You start and then you adapt and change the color, the pages. Do it however you need to do it to organize your world. You can do it on your phone or you can do it on paper. Know it’s about developing a successful method that suits your needs and also your brain type.
Eat The Elephant
You see you can’t eat the elephant in one bite. We know this and to simply start is an understanding. You will acknowledge your bites are going to be small but eventually you’re going to eat the elephant.
Being disorganized is expensive. It is expensive in money and it’s expensive in lost moments. We want to keep as much of those as we can and enjoy our lives. We want to enjoy our money and enjoy our time, our experiences.
The World Prefers You’re Organized, It’s Elemental
If you’re not organized you need to start getting organized. If you’re good at organizing go ahead and start reviewing your system. Review because you change, the world changes, and your system should probably reflect that as well.
Recommending something to do, yes get starting on it today. Even the smallest of steps toward organization count.
Here is my book on leadership and organization
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KRIS WILDER
Kris Wilder is a martial artist based in Seattle Washington. He has authored many martial art books, including the classic, The Way of Kata. Making no apologies for his obsession of Football he can be found telling any who will listen about the nuances of the Canadian Football League.
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