I am highly disorganised this time of year. Thoughts start to spin in my head but over the years I have found a few simple ways to deal with those thought so that I feel productive and not panicked.
Short and simple they do work.
- Brain Dump everything you have to do onto a large sheet of paper. This can be done for the week or the day.
- Now be utterly ruthless and ask which tasks are an absolute must and which are really not urgent, not important and if they never get done it really won’t matter or can be crossed off for some other time. E.g. cleaning under the beds because your mother WILL look.
- Then set your goals for the week or the day. Your absolute musts that will make a significant difference to your stress levels. E.g. Writing Christmas cards so that you can catch the second class mail and your overseas ones will arrive before January 15th. Placing the delivery order with Waitrose etc so that you won’t have to join the last minute scrum and also buy ‘stuff’ you don’t really want.
- Ideally spend about 10 minutes planning the most important things you need to get done tomorrow before you finish your day. This might be at work or perhaps 10 minutes before you start to prepare supper. It is amazing what a difference this can make to your evening and day knowing that you have already got tomorrow worked out.
A couple more soon. Have great day.
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