De-clutter your life

Make room for goals in your life. That is often easier said than done isn’t it. But what if you want to learn a new skill, something that is outside your current comfort zone. Perhaps something that will help you further your career. Take a look at your life and see how much time you actually have available.

Will a new goal fit into your life? If you are already rushing every day to complete the tasks you have to do in terms of your commitments to work, family, parents, and keeping in touch with your friends where will the new goal fit in?

Somehow in our mind the time available to us has an elasticity that has no boundary. Of course this is not the case and we frequently set ourselves up for failure by not de-cluttering our life sufficiently to make time to achieve a goal we have set.

Examine your day and see where you spend your time. How much of your time is being wasted on non-productive activities? What are you willing to sacrifice to achieve your new goal? Get rid of the clutter that keeps you busy but gets you absolutely nowhere.

Most of us have mountains of clutter around. This could be physical clutter that means that every time we are looking for something it takes twice the time to find. It could be hours spent surfing the Internet, or little tasks that would be better served by delegating?

All it requires to de-clutter your life is a closer look at how you fill your day. Keep a journal for a few days and then you will see ways to free substantial time for all sorts of great achievements.

Check against everything you do in a regular day whether this needs doing or whether it can be relegated to the trash can of bad habits. You will be surprised how much time you spend on aimless tasks that add no value to your life.

Just canceling some of the time spent in front of the TV could help you find the time needed to attain a wonderful goal.

Tomorrow's topic “Goal Setting”