5 Simple Steps To Organize Your Day

As someone desirous of success, the way you spend your time is crucial.

While the choice is yours in how to spend your day, the best way to maximize your time is by organizing it. You must imbibe the discipline of starting each day in an organized way and you will achieve more results than you can imagine.

Here are 5 simple steps for achieving an organized and result-oriented day.

Make A To Do List: Make a list the evening before of things you have to do tomorrow. Don’t fall into the habit of waking up in the morning not knowing the direction of your day. It is possible to lose the direction for ones entire life if you keep loosing direction for each day because your life is the sum total of each day you spend on earth. Prioritize every item in the sequence it should be accomplished. When you wake up in the morning, you will have a clear-cut guide for everything that must be done.

Be Wary of Distraction: Very often a plan or schedule gets abandoned and you go off track because of distraction. Now, if you find that you constantly get off track by distraction, you can set a timer to help you monitor your time. For example you can set an alarm to go off every 30 minutes. Every time it sounds, be sure you are working on what you originally planned. If you are not, stop what you are doing and get back on schedule. Most distractions are unnecessary.


Always Re-confirm your Appointments: if you have an appointment during the day, always call to confirm before you leave your office. This will ensure that the person you are meeting did not forget about the appointment. In addition, if there is going to be a long waiting time you can occupy that with reading, listening to self development materials. Just make sure that the waiting time is occupied with a productive activity.


Strike off Completed Task: Every time you finish something, cross it off in your-to-do-list. This gives you a sense of accomplishment throughout the day.

Do a Final Check: At the end of the day, take one final look at your list. How many items were you able to accomplish? Are there only one or two things left undone or many? If there were just a few undone, simply move them to tomorrow’s list. If there were many undone, and you worked diligently on everything all day, then you probably had too many things on your list to begin with.

Do a re-think of how many things you can possibly do in a given day. Remember you only have 24 hours and you should be able to maximize them.

Enjoy your day.