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My life has been a little cray, cray since I got back from Colorado at the end of June. It has been nonstop travels, life changes, and full on craziness in my opinion! I’m waiting to get settled in Connecticut, so I can start to calm down and figure everything out. To help with this process, I bought a few books the other day. I’m currently reading The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Organizing Your Life by Georgene Lockwood. While some might look at this book and think it’s a joke, I actually find it very interesting and I’m only on Chapter 5.
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Since a lot of my readers said they are going through the same situation that I am at the moment in the comments section of my The Happiness Project Giveaway post, I thought I might do some posts on this topic. This book is the perfect place to start. While I won’t give the book away (Go buy it!), I will discuss some of its points and how I am using these to organize my own life.
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This is Organizing Your Life Post #1 and the first/most important step to organizing your life is to jot down your goals. The book gives you some categories. I added an extra one to fit my life, so feel free to do the same. I came up with 12 life goals that I want to accomplish under the 8 topics the book suggests.
Life Topics:
People
Work
Food
Clothing
Home
Money
Fun
Fitness (I added this one.)
My Goals:
Make new friends.
But, keep the old ones.
Find a job…with benefits.
Eat cleaner…with carbs for marathon training.
Donate unworn clothes.
Purchase timeless closet items.
Decide on a style and work toward it.
Find a dog-friendly apartment.
Save my money, honey!
Get enough sleep but have a social life as well.
Stay on track with marathon training.
Gain muscle.
Once you make your list of goals, post them somewhere you will see them daily. Next, the book suggests to make a weekly contract with yourself on how you will move toward achieving these goals. I haven’t done this step yet, but it is a great idea. Anything that keeps you focused on goals with a clear path of how to achieve them plus a reward at the end is a fabulous idea in my book. One tip I thought of – Don’t give yourself a reward that goes against your goals. For example, one of my main goals is to save money, so I shouldn’t have a reward be to buy myself an expensive purse, you know?
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I might start posting my weekly goals as part of my Weekly Recaps posts that I write on Sundays. What do you think? Posting things on a blog is always a great way to be held accountable. Speaking of accountability – my friend Donna is holding herself accountable by doing more training recap videos. She asked if I wanted to join and I think I will. Races are a way for us to stay in touch after I move many states away, so I think this is a great idea. runDisney WDW Marathon and Princess Half, here we come! In addition, it will help me work toward one of my goals – “Stay on track with marathon training.”
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Check back on Sunday for my list of weekly goals. Also, let me know in the comments what your main goals are and what you are going to do weekly to achieve these things. I love hearing people’s resolutions! Also, don’t forget to enter my giveaway for a copy of The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. This is another amazing book to help you refocus and organize your life. Good luck!
Stay fit and fabulous,
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HOW did I miss this post? As this is the most relevant to us right now… It still looks like we’re moving in (I know I have a 1 yr old, but it still drives me crazy!) He suggested Adult ADHD… It really makes me wonder… I just made a post about my goals, and this week they all went out the window. We both got sick and that was the end of that. New week, I guess!