Take a good look around your life. Can you simplify the processes you use to complete your tasks and projects in anyway? How cluttered is your home? Your desk? Your calendar? Your bills, etc.
Simplification is about easing the burden that normal everyday life places on you. When you simplify you are cleaning up and taking away pressures and or things that get in your way. You cannot think clearly and focus on your goals if you are stumbling over children's toys, laundry or a stack of "stuff" that you do not actually use.
To have a clear mind and the ability to use your time wisely to you need to simplify all areas of your life. You need to get rid of all the "mess" in your home that you have to move around for no reason. Right away you should clear yourself a work area in your office. This space needs to be completely yours and spotless at all times. Your office should be quiet and preferably be somewhere that you can shut a door and work by yourself. If you do not have an office find another spot in your home.
In addition to cleaning up and simplifying your home you should take a good look at the activities that you have committed your time to. Often in the soccer mom culture we over-extend ourselves time wise. We say "yes" to dinner with a friend when we really just want to have a night off. We over schedule our children's schedules and by default our own time since we are responsible for driving them around and preparing them for events.
What have you said yes too lately that you don't really want to do? Make a list of all your activities and cross off ones that are not important to you. This includes doing things like the grocery shopping. In many cities you can pay a small fee and have all your groceries ordered online and delivered to you. The hour and a half to two hours you used to spend at the grocery store can now be spent working on your purpose. Continue with this activity until you free up over 15 hours a week to spend working on your goals.
If you are living with a significant other see if the chores are evenly spread between you and your partner. If they are not - redistribute them evenly or hire someone to do the things that you hate doing. Or trade time with a friend for something they do well and you do poorly. Both you and your partner deserve to have free time to work on your goals. Working as a team allows each of you to have time to work on projects that are important to each of you. Your spouse will be much happier and so will you.
An area that always needs serious attention is your personal finances. Are there things in your budget that you do not need or really don't have the money for? Are you paying for t.v. channels that you do not watch? What about your home and cell phone? Do you actually use both? Can you switch car insurance to save money? How much food are you buying that just ends up being tossed out? If the family won't eat a certain food, then don't buy it.
Simplifying is purely to take stress off your systems: mental and financial. The extra money that you "discover" once you have reduced your commitments, you will use to work towards your goals. While before you might have believed that you could not afford to allocate anything towards your goals . . . simplification will give you wiggle room in your budget to afford to start putting money towards the projects you care about. Even if it you can only find $50 a month to spend on your goals that is a wonderful start. Over time you will make choices and decide whether a going out for dinner or putting that money towards your purpose is the right decision. - 16752
Simplification is about easing the burden that normal everyday life places on you. When you simplify you are cleaning up and taking away pressures and or things that get in your way. You cannot think clearly and focus on your goals if you are stumbling over children's toys, laundry or a stack of "stuff" that you do not actually use.
To have a clear mind and the ability to use your time wisely to you need to simplify all areas of your life. You need to get rid of all the "mess" in your home that you have to move around for no reason. Right away you should clear yourself a work area in your office. This space needs to be completely yours and spotless at all times. Your office should be quiet and preferably be somewhere that you can shut a door and work by yourself. If you do not have an office find another spot in your home.
In addition to cleaning up and simplifying your home you should take a good look at the activities that you have committed your time to. Often in the soccer mom culture we over-extend ourselves time wise. We say "yes" to dinner with a friend when we really just want to have a night off. We over schedule our children's schedules and by default our own time since we are responsible for driving them around and preparing them for events.
What have you said yes too lately that you don't really want to do? Make a list of all your activities and cross off ones that are not important to you. This includes doing things like the grocery shopping. In many cities you can pay a small fee and have all your groceries ordered online and delivered to you. The hour and a half to two hours you used to spend at the grocery store can now be spent working on your purpose. Continue with this activity until you free up over 15 hours a week to spend working on your goals.
If you are living with a significant other see if the chores are evenly spread between you and your partner. If they are not - redistribute them evenly or hire someone to do the things that you hate doing. Or trade time with a friend for something they do well and you do poorly. Both you and your partner deserve to have free time to work on your goals. Working as a team allows each of you to have time to work on projects that are important to each of you. Your spouse will be much happier and so will you.
An area that always needs serious attention is your personal finances. Are there things in your budget that you do not need or really don't have the money for? Are you paying for t.v. channels that you do not watch? What about your home and cell phone? Do you actually use both? Can you switch car insurance to save money? How much food are you buying that just ends up being tossed out? If the family won't eat a certain food, then don't buy it.
Simplifying is purely to take stress off your systems: mental and financial. The extra money that you "discover" once you have reduced your commitments, you will use to work towards your goals. While before you might have believed that you could not afford to allocate anything towards your goals . . . simplification will give you wiggle room in your budget to afford to start putting money towards the projects you care about. Even if it you can only find $50 a month to spend on your goals that is a wonderful start. Over time you will make choices and decide whether a going out for dinner or putting that money towards your purpose is the right decision. - 16752
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When you change your habits, actions and attitude, your whole life will change. Set aside a few minutes each day to work on your goals. Click here to learn about how to increase your income and create wealth in your life. This website covers topics from leadership, to tax strategies to growing your business and many more. Christina Helwig is an attorney and VP of Wealth Expressions, Inc.
