How To Achieve Organized Living
Posted: Friday, March 16, 2007
by Nathan Shaw
http://www.organizedr.com/
You are overwhelmed by the information
age. But your saving grace is almost here. A major revolution is
coming by 2010 that I’ve coined the Efficiency Age. Past
revolutions include the industrial, technological and current
information age.
The old dictum ‘knowledge is power’
seems to have become obsolete. Too much knowledge causes confusion.
Today’s information age is overwhelming. We want an organized
life. A new approach to life has to emerge through careful selection
and efficient application of world knowledge. This points us to an
Efficiency Revolution.
It’s not easy to be organized. But I
believe getting organized is in fact impossible in today’s fast
paced modern life. Getting organized defeats it’s own purpose by
being a waste of time. Get past the struggle for getting organized
with something different. Something new. The idea of being
efficient.
You don’t want to get organized, you
just want to get stuff done in the best and fastest way that gives
the greatest benefit for the least amount of effort. Efficiency goes
beyond getting organized to put us in the driving seat of modern
life.
I’ve identified 5 levels of organized
living.
First you need to understand how to
organize. From there you can look at what your life values are,
what’s important to you and your life direction. After that you
can then finally begin to successfully organize your life towards
those things. After getting to grips with that you’ll be ready for
time management systems that support your organized living. And the
final level for organized living is the control of your own mind and
emotions so that you put your energy and effort into succeeding.
Traditional how to get organized
information is becoming very obsolete very quickly. Napoleon Hill’s
classic book Think and Grow Rich seems very outdated, clunky,
disorganized.
David Allen’s Getting Things Done is
truly excellent when applied to career development. For your
personal life though, it still becomes overwhelming.
How can you achieve organized living?
The key to organized living is to successfully combine your career
development with your personal life.
One example of effective organized
living is with employing handymen to help you organize the home. If
something needs to be done in the home, and you earn a medium to high
level income, working full time. Then you can calculate the value of
your hour, and pay a handyman to do household tasks, giving you more
time to live your life, and/or work at your career.
Efficiency Services like this will
sprout up more and more as we all move towards an organized living
society. Why do the dishes for 30 minutes when you earn $30 per hour
at work and can employ home help for $10 per hour. Aren’t the few
hours of your evening more important than house hold chores?
The mind set of organized living
requires having the skill of organizing, prioritizing everything in
your life, and successfully organizing your affairs to spend your
time where it gives you the greatest benefit.
Organized Living is one of the most
important considerations of modern times. How well is your life
organized?
Nathan Shaw is a Professional Organizer
and Efficiency Trainer based between London UK, Dubai and Thailand
with a decade of experience helping people to organize life. His
latest offering is a revival of his original system for how to
organize everything in your life available at
http://organizeyourlife.folderarchy.com.
Nathan has just launched Organized Living World giving 100% free
access to all 5 categories and is available at
http://www.organizedlivingworld.com.
Excellent article.
Yes, it can be a far better use of your time to pay a cleaner at $10/hour when you make $30. But be careful of how much you end up outsourcing. If the total costs exceed what you earn, you're putting yourself into debt. Also, don't overlook the quality time that can be shared when couples or parents and children do the dishes and other household chores together.