Spooky Time Thief No. 4 – Disorganization

Where does the time go? Is it spooky time thieves or is it a lack of something else? Over the next few days, we’re going to focus on who our time thieves are and how we can get rid of them once and for all.

Are you constantly losing your keys? Or is it your phone or glasses? Are you spending more time looking for your lead list than you are actually calling leads?

These are all symptoms of a spooky time thief known as disorganization. This thief is elusive and hard to catch, but when you do – it’s a huge plus for your life and your business.

The biggest obstacle for disorganization is where to start. Some of you probably have a shelf of books on how to organize your life and business. You’ve tried the “systems” or even enlisted some help. And it probably works for a while. Until you get sick or take a break. Or get tired of being organized.

Being organized doesn’t have to be that hard. You also don’t have to organize everything in one day.

In a recent post, I gave you my system for organization. You can use it for everything from organizing your cleaning list to your business project list. In this article, I give you a map for how to break projects into manageable tasks in four steps. Here are the overall steps (read the post for details):

1. Start with seeing or visualizing the desired outcome before it occurs.
2. Predict or estimate what needs to be done in order for the outcome to occur.
3. See that each item that needs to get done does get done and in proper sequence.
4. Write lessons learned so that you improve.

When you structure your projects like this, you’ll find more organization because you know the outcomes and you’re tracking it every step of the way. And you’re training yourself to be even more organized when you review the lessons learned.

But what do you do about the lost items? The searching for this or that?  I recommend that your first project be – get personally organized and use these four steps to do it. Take it room by room or start in your workspace.

Action Item: Capture this spooky time thief with the Performance Tracker and you’ll really start to see results in your business.