How To Better Organize Your Life

So you can begin doing more of the things that you want.

AM Costanzo

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If someone could bottle up time and sell it, we’d have our first trillionaire to date — unless we have one already and I missed it. If we do, do they sell time?

Imagine it, with bottled time, we’d have time for all the things. The good, the bad, and the utterly joyous things that we never make time for!

Until that glorious day happens though, we have to turn our attention to plausible solutions to the time conundrum, which lucky for us, there are plenty.

All it requires is an open mind, and an ability to organize — and who doesn’t love to organize?!

If you’re like me and your skillset when it comes to organizing is lacking, we can do this, it’s not as hard as it sounds.

Write stuff down.

The simple act of writing down the things I need to accomplish in a day has awakened a productivity gene in me that’s been dormant my entire life. It may seem completely ridiculous, far-fetched, and almost pathetic—as in what did my life look like before I adopted this practice, I must have never accomplished a thing, poor soul — to which I would respond, never this consistently.

But wait, there’s more. When I write down the things I need to get done, I keep it to three. Lots of things come in threes and that’s because three is easy. You can remember three things and they never seem totally overwhelming.

I also make sure that I include within the three the things that are on the fringes, the tasks that get treated like red-headed stepchildren (i.e. the ones that I see, but I never really pay attention to or are the first things to come off the list, which is usually anything having to do with me.)

For example, I’ve been wanting to learn Italian since that one semester I took it in college about a hundred years ago. Well, that’s on my list and now, every time I write it down on my top three to-do list, I end up finding those mysterious 20 minutes that I never had before and practice learning Italian.

It’s almost life-changing. Imagine what you could miraculously find time for if you write it down.

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AM Costanzo

Accountant turned Graphic Designer turned Personal Trainer turned Writer. I write about wellness, mindfulness, fitness and doing that thing that lights you up!