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Workbook Planner

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Contents

Introduction ................................................................ 7

1 | Organize your Personal Development .........................9

Personal Growth ..................................................................... 10

Personal Habits ....................................................................... 11

Mindfulness ............................................................................ 11

My Personal Development Plan ................................................ 13

2 | Organize your Health & Fitness ................................ 14

Improving Nutrition ................................................................. 15

Exercising Regularly ................................................................ 15

Self-care ................................................................................. 16

My Health & Fitness Plan ......................................................... 18

3 | Organize your Career & Work ................................... 19

Current job .............................................................................. 20

Getting promoted .................................................................... 21

Finding a new job .................................................................... 22

Changing career/Starting a business ......................................... 23

My Career & Work Plan ............................................................ 24

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4 | Organize your Fun & Recreation ............................... 25

Exploring Interests................................................................... 26

Self Expression ........................................................................ 26

Planning ................................................................................. 27

Entertainment......................................................................... 28

My Fun & Recreation Plan ........................................................ 29

5 | Organize your Technology ....................................... 30

Computers, Software and Backing Up ....................................... 31

Gadgets.................................................................................. 32

My Technology Plan ................................................................ 33

6 | Organize Your Home .............................................. 34

Creating a Home you Love ....................................................... 35

Clearing Clutter ....................................................................... 36

Household Systems & Paperwork ............................................. 37

Simplifying your Home and Your Life ........................................ 37

My Home Plan ........................................................................ 38

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7 | Organize your Personal Presentation ........................ 39

Expressing your Best Self ......................................................... 39

Grooming, Poise & Confidence ................................................. 41

Accoutrements ........................................................................ 42

My Personal Presentation Plan ................................................ 43

8 | Organize your Strategies for Happiness .................... 44

Happiness Mindset .................................................................. 45

Strategies for Happiness .......................................................... 46

Releasing Barriers to Happiness................................................ 47

My Happiness Plan .................................................................. 49

9 | Organize your Money & Finance ............................... 50

Debt ....................................................................................... 51

Day-to-day financial management ........................................... 51

Protecting your Family, Assets and Self (insurance) ................... 52

Advisers & Knowledge ............................................................. 53

My Money & Finance Plan ........................................................ 54

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10 | Organize your Relationships .................................. 55

Nurturing Special Relationships ................................................ 56

Dealing with Energy-Draining Relationships .............................. 56

Enhancing Relationship Skills ................................................... 57

My Relationships Plan ............................................................. 59

11 | Organize your Time............................................... 60

Analyzing Your Schedule ......................................................... 61

Streamlining Your Schedule ..................................................... 62

Stopping Time Wasters ............................................................ 64

My Time Management Plan ..................................................... 65

12| Organize Your Family ............................................ 66

Supporting Your Spouse/Partner .............................................. 67

Helping and Coaching Your Kids ............................................... 67

Difficult Conversations ............................................................ 68

My Family Plan ....................................................................... 69

Achieve Goals, Get Organized, Be Your Best .................. 70

Life & Goal Organizer Deluxe ....................................... 71

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Introduction

Welcome to Organize Your Life & Goals: Workbook Planner for

Organizing Goals in 12 Life Areas.

Better Personal Organization in 12 Life Areas

This workbook is divided into 12 life areas. These are the areas

people generally want to improve - where they tend to set

personal goals and objectives.

The 12 life areas are:

1. Personal Development

2. Health & Fitness

3. Career & Work

4. Fun & Recreation

5. Managing Technology

6. Home

7. Personal Presentation

8. Strategies for Happiness

9. Money & Finance

10. Relationships

11. Time Management

12. Family

On the following pages you’ll find motivation for organizing each

of these areas, suggested goals and targets specific to the area,

and a planner for creating your personal organizing plan in each

life area.

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Diversify or intensify

You might like to set a goal from each life area – giving you 12

items of personal organization, nicely diversified across your life,

to improve over the next few months. As you get them

completed, you can return here and choose 12 more.

Or you might want to up the intensity and set a bunch of goals

from one particular life area at a time.

Progress, not perfection

No-one is always perfectly organized. And even if they could be,

the time, effort and stress of maintaining perfect, perpetual order

would crowd out too many other things that make life good.

Whatever you choose, take it easy. You’re unlikely to persist if a

goal is too big or requires too much time and effort from your

already busy life. Go for progress, not perfection, and let the

momentum from small successes carry you along.

Ready? Then let’s get organized!

Please note:

This e-book is composed of edited extracts from the 12 module

introductions in Life & Goal Organizer. Each of the modules in Life

& Goal Organizer contains detailed checklist worksheets, guided

prompts, tips and suggestions for various goals and organizing

projects, including those suggested in this e-book.

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1 | Organize your Personal Development

Is this an area of your life that gets

neglected? In the face of daily

pressures, family challenges and the

holy grail of life-work balance, many

people never stop and think about

their personal development.

Yet it’s personal growth that keeps

us fresh and alive. Without

nurturing our own development we can run out of fuel and start to

feel like we’re running on empty in our commitments to others.

Without stopping to foster our own growth we become stagnant.

We get fed up with ourselves and maybe even resentful toward

the people we see as standing in the way of the things we ‘always

wanted’ to do.

This is the time to stop all that unhealthy stuff, to recover the

childlike part of you that wants to explore, to re-kindle the fire in

your belly.

Behold the turtle. He only makes progress

when he sticks his neck out.

James Bryant Conant, former president of Harvard

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Personal Growth

Books

One of the easiest ways to freshen up your thinking is to read.

Why not start compiling your list of stimulating books – fiction

and non-fiction - to read. It’ll feel wonderful to tick off those titles!

Comfort zone

Expanding your comfort zone is one of those things you can’t help

doing once you make the decision. Choose a growth area and

you’ll start to notice opportunities. But be gentle with yourself!

Trying new things

Don’t be someone who harbors regrets about the things you

‘always wanted to try’. Start getting those desires out of your

head and into your life. You’ll find a new you.

Overcoming fears

If a fear doesn’t interfere with your life then it may not be a

concern for you. But if you feel a fear is holding you back, think

about how you might start to tackle it.

Training

Is the lack of a particular skill holding you back in your job or

career? Plan your sales, speaking, management, media or other

training so you have the edge you need to move to the next level.

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Personal Habits

Bad habits

Vague plans to give up habits that hurt you ‘one day’ usually aren’t

effective. Start identifying the habits you want to change and

planning how you’ll make these changes.

Good habits

If you envy others for their punctuality, optimism, assertiveness or

exercise habits why not set yourself up to develop these habits

yourself? Or choose and work on your own good habits.

Without nurturing our own development we can run

out of fuel and start to feel like we’re running on empty

in our commitments to others.

Mindfulness

Spirituality & mindfulness

Consider whether you want to make room in your life for regular

spiritual practice, meditation, religion, prayer, reflection, spiritual

reading, or mindfulness.

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Uplifting work

Does your office or desk evoke a sense of disorder? Or downright

chaos? Work toward a more inspiring, less distracting

environment so you can enjoy producing good work.

This is the time to stop all that unhealthy stuff, to

recover the childlike part of you that wants to

explore, to re-kindle the fire in your belly.

This is an edited extract from Life & Goal Organizer’s Personal Development Module introduction. The

module contains detailed worksheets for various organizing projects, including those suggested above.

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My Personal Development Plan

Areas I want to organize

Organized!

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2 | Organize your Health & Fitness

It’s a rare person who has the health

and fitness aspects of life all sorted

out. For most of us, there’s always

something we’d like to improve –

poor eating habits, lack of exercise,

niggling health concerns, aches and

pains, low energy, high stress, no

time for self-care – the list goes on!

We know how neglecting health and fitness undermines us

elsewhere. Without energy we can’t achieve the things we want.

Too much stress distracts us from our work and relationships.

Persistent aliments hold us back. And looking or feeling less than

our best casts a cloud over life.

This one body has to last us right through life. So let’s organize

ourselves to make living in our bodies as comfortable and

pleasurable as we can. With a little planning and a little self-love

we can make big, positive changes to nutrition, movement,

health, body awareness and self-care.

Make 2009 the year you get your health and fitness ‘into shape’!

It’s time to look, feel and be your best.

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Improving Nutrition

Food habits

Take stock of your food habits and note changes you want to

make. Get organized to cut down on fatty food, sugary food,

alcohol, sugary drinks, portion sizes or night-time snacking.

Emotional eating

Think about emotional triggers, such as an unhelpful environment

or stress. Consider strategies like keeping a food diary to learn

what triggers you, or alternative ways to meet emotional needs.

Exercising Regularly

Exercise program

Many people fail at their exercise plans because they fail to plan

them properly. Write out your plan and follow the steps to

maximize your chance of creating a program you’ll stick to.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or

brains or even courage but simply because they have

never organized their energies around a goal.

Elbert Hubbard

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Excuses & obstacles

Another key to making exercise part of your life is being prepared

for the inevitable resistance (it happens to everyone). Plan your

strategies and head off excuses before they take hold.

Motivation

People don’t get what they want by waiting for motivation to

appear. Build your own desire with milestones and rewards that

matter to you. For instance, ‘When I [do 3 workouts a week] I’ll

reward myself with [a manicure]’.

This one body has to last us right through life. So let’s

organize ourselves to make living in our bodies as

comfortable and pleasurable as we can.

Self-care

Looking good

Stop! What expression is your face making right now? How’s your

posture? Are you poised? Focus on having a pleasant face and

body as you move through your day. You’ll feel better too!

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Energizers

You probably have activities or situations in your life that give you

energy. These are treasures! Identify these times and plan how

you can get more of them into your life.

Stress management

We can’t avoid all stress, but most of us have certain triggers that

raise our blood pressure fast, and these are worth managing.

Make it a priority to find and try techniques for doing just that.

With a little planning and a little self-love we can make

big, positive changes to nutrition, movement, health,

body awareness and self-care.

This is an edited extract from Life & Goal Organizer’s Health & Fitness Module introduction. The

module contains detailed worksheets for various organizing projects, including those suggested above.

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My Health & Fitness Plan

Areas I want to organize

Organized!

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3 | Organize your Career & Work

Many people want to be more successful in

their work life. But instead of proactively

looking for ways to express their talents,

impress their boss, seek a better position,

or head out on their own, they simply wait

for that golden opportunity to come along

and find them. It rarely does.

When you put a little thought into your

work and career you can be a lot smarter about finding work you

enjoy and being rewarded well for it. Once you know what you

want and how you’ll go about it, your attention and effort have

focus.

So ironically, stopping and spending time organizing your goals

and taking inventory of your situation now can speed up the

process of developing your career over time.

Whether you want to excel in your current job, get promoted, find

a new role, change careers entirely or put up your own shingle,

think of how you can take stock, be proactive and develop the

focus you need.

The past is not your potential. In any hour you

can choose to liberate the future.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Current job

Current work

Is it time to take inventory of your present work situation?

Consider whether you:

 enjoy your job

 get to express a talent

 like the work environment

 feel challenged

 have the resources you need to succeed in your role

 are making progress on your career plan.

Performance

You might also like to take stock of your performance. How are

you doing on relevant indicators and how can you improve?

Indicators might include:

 productivity

 initiative

 being a team player

 work quality

 written and verbal communication.

Once you know what you want and how you’ll go

about it, your attention and effort have focus.

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Relationships

People can be the biggest pain or greatest joy in a job. What can

you do to improve your relationships with:

 superiors

 colleagues

 juniors

 clients

 suppliers?

Getting promoted

Requirements

Optimize your chances of success by knowing the exact

requirements for promotion and ensuring you meet each one.

Skills

Need to upgrade your skills? Organize the steps, such as:

 discussing what you need to do with your boss

 getting training

 proactively taking on more responsibility.

Performance

Get your performance promotion-ready by organizing how to

upgrade relevant factors, like:

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 productivity

 initiative

 being a team player

 work quality

 written and verbal communication.

Finding a new job

Cover off important CV elements and show their relevance to the

role - including:

 work history

 skills

 achievements

 compelling cover letter

 portfolio (if relevant).

Take extra care with proofreading, presentation and brevity.

Interview skills

Prepare yourself for:

 common interview questions

 a firm, pleasant handshake

 confident presentation

 knowing why you’re right for the job

 salary negotiation.

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Changing career/Starting a business

Finding your passion

Do you have a ‘calling’? Consider what you:

 enjoy or find interesting

 excel at

 find meaning in

 see as an opportunity.

Is there something compelling at the intersection?

Exploration

How can you explore a potential career or business field? Consider:

 books and courses

 talking to people in your field(s) of interest

 discussing ideas with family and friends

 consulting a career or business coach.

Planning & research

Do your homework! Get clear on:

 who to speak to in order to learn more

 what skills and knowledge you need to develop

 financial preparation or safety net (don’t skip this one!)

 next action steps.

This is an edited extract from Life & Goal Organizer’s Career & Work Module introduction. The module

contains detailed worksheets for various organizing projects, including those suggested above.

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My Career & Work Plan

Areas I want to organize

Organized!

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4 | Organize your Fun & Recreation

If you’ve read Steven Covey’s 7 Habits

of Highly Effective People you’re

probably familiar with ‘sharpening

the saw’. If not, the idea is a simple

and powerful one: you need time out

for refreshment and rejuvenation

(sharpening your ‘saw’ – yourself!) or

you become stale and ineffective.

There are two aspects to this idea.

The first is making time and space in your life for saw-

sharpening.

But the second, often overlooked, aspect of recharging your

batteries can be the more important one. It’s finding activities

that refresh you.

Why? Because once you decide to start an activity, hobby or

project, it finds a way into your life. There’s a softball match on

Saturday afternoon, a writing group on Friday nights, a project

that takes on a life of its own, a holiday booked. It becomes part

of life and you just turn up for it.

This is the time to organize some saw-sharpening for yourself.

Think about what you like, what you always wanted to try, what

makes you excited or envious when you see someone else doing

it. And enjoy!

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Exploring Interests

Activities

Most of us have things we’ve always wanted to do or try. Why not

list them and start tackling them. Ikebana? Art galleries? Sushi

making? Kickboxing? Ballroom dancing? Scuba diving? Choose

anything that sounds like fun to you.

Hobbies & Interests

Most of us explore so few of the things that intrigue us - what a

loss! Start developing those forgotten desires. Psychology? Film?

Art history? Religion? Politics? Quantum physics? Aircraft

modeling? Bonsai? Puzzles? Knitting?

You need time out for refreshment and rejuvenation or

you become stale and ineffective.

Self Expression

Expressing yourself

Creative expression can be a way to recharge and escape daily

stresses. You might even uncover hidden talents or bring joy to

others. Consider journal-writing, song-writing, musical

instruments, pottery, watercolors, calligraphy, dance or novel–

writing.

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Planning

Projects

Interested in long-term or self-directed activities like creating a

family tree, organizing photos, or writing a book? Don’t limit

yourself! Be sure to note down your individual project ideas,

resources, contacts, supplies, tasks and steps to help you stay

organized.

Holidays & travel

List all the places you’d like to visit – whether short sojourns or

longer adventures. Note website information, places to stay,

activities, locations of interest, local friends and contacts, and

medical, visa and insurance details.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys

the intensity and flow of a man’s animal spirits,

which find recreation and delight in mere

change of activity.

Karl Marx

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Entertainment

Reading for pleasure

Remember the delight of a good story, beautiful language or

sheer escapism? Keep a list of titles you want to read. See an

interesting review or hear a great recommendation? Add it to

your list.

Movies

Don’t let the wrong film spoil movie night. Start a list and keep

track of the good ones from recommendations and reviews.

The second, often overlooked, aspect of recharging

your batteries can be the more important one. It’s

finding activities that refresh you.

This is an edited extract from Life & Goal Organizer’s Fun & Recreation Module introduction. The

module contains detailed worksheets for various organizing projects, including those suggested above.

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My Fun & Recreation Plan

Areas I want to organize

Organized!

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5 | Organize your Technology

It’s getting more and more difficult to

think of having an organized life

without taking technology into

account.

But more importantly for people

wanting an organized life, technology

offers lots of smart, time-saving, and

downright cool ways to get better organized. There’s plenty to

gain from taking charge of your technology – including better

information, security, communication, work and play.

Now’s the time to think about organizing your computer, emails,

gadgets, internet use and social networking (stuff like Facebook,

photo-sharing, blogs). Here are some ideas…

The number one benefit of information

technology is that it empowers people to do

what they want to do. It lets people be

creative. It lets people be productive. It lets

people learn things they didn’t think they could

learn before, and so in a sense it is all about

potential.

Steve Ballmer

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Computers, Software and Backing Up

Computer files

Do you store documents, music and pictures on your computer?

How are they organized? It might be time to structure your file

storage, tidy your desktop and empty the re-cycle bin.

Computer documents

If you have many documents you’ll need an organizing system.

Give all your files names that help you find what you need faster.

It’s getting more difficult to think of having an

organized life without taking technology into account

Backing up

You back up, don’t you? Well it’s time to organize a system to

protect your all your important files. Include on- and off-site back

up, and check that all important file types are included.

Software

Spring clean your software – including unused software, updates

and upgrades, registrations, CDs, manuals and licenses. When

considering new software, do a cost-benefit check (if you’re very

time poor the cost of learning may be too high).

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Gadgets

Cell phone

Your cell can be an expensive nuisance rather than a cool tool if it

gets cluttered with outdated contacts, sent messages, texts and

photos, or you have the wrong plan. Spring clean!

Personal Digital Assistant

Organize your PDA for better performance – including sync, files,

operating system, software and quick-start buttons.

iPod

Freshen up your iPod. Organize your music, podcasts, audio-

books and software, and manage your playlists.

Facebook

Want to join Facebook? Then organize yourself to join, find and

invite friends, keep in touch, update your status, post photos and

more. (And come friend me!)

Other social networking

Interested in more social networking sites? Get set up on Twitter

(and follow me!), MySpace, Squidoo, Flickr (or other photo-

sharing), IMDB, and forums and communities.

This is an edited extract from Life & Goal Organizer’s Managing Technology Module introduction. The

module contains detailed worksheets for various organizing projects, including those suggested above.

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My Technology Plan

Areas I want to organize

Organized!

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6 | Organize Your Home

Are you always making excuses for

not inviting people in? Postponing

dinner parties? Dropping your kids’

friends home to avoid parents at

your door?

You don’t have to live that way

anymore. Your home may never

feature in decorator magazines, but there’s no reason it can’t be a

welcoming, comfortable place you’re happy to share with others.

Seeing your home as one big project that has to go from pit to

perfect overnight is a sure way to create overwhelm and send

yourself running for the ice cream. A better way is to take it

slowly, one room at a time.

It’s also important to focus on what you want your home to be,

not on some external notion that doesn’t resonate with you.

Whether you want your home to echo love, or sanctuary, or clean

lines, be guided by your own vision and values.

You’ll be much happier in the space you create.

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

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Creating a Home you Love

Your values and sense of style

Before creating a home you love, it helps to clarify your values.

Minimalism? Warmth? Comfort? As you enter the year, ponder

how your home will reflect your values.

Living room

Get organized to create a relaxing, inviting living room and to

remove the mood-spoilers. Um, dead plant alert!

Kitchen

Target surfaces, storage, appliances, drawers, shelves, pantry and

fridge to create a well organized, pleasure-to-cook-in kitchen.

Home office

Keep most-needed items close by, file away less-needed papers

and ditch everything un-needed. Clear those work surfaces!

Seeing your home as one big project that has to go

from pit to perfect overnight is a sure way to create

overwhelm and send yourself running for the ice

cream. Instead, take it slowly, one room at a time.

Kids’ rooms

Make this the year you organize - and help kids learn to organize -

toys, dirty clothes, playtime clean-up and storage.

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Your bedroom

Create a bedroom-sanctuary. Check bed, linen, furniture, window

dressings and mood killers. Uh - is that dog medicine on the bed?

Bathroom

Organize your towels, accessories, cabinets and surfaces. Clean

out medicines. Refresh your toiletries. Spa-ify your bathroom!

Garden

Sort out junk, watering, weeds, garden care, plantings and

furniture to help create a garden you love.

Whether you want your home to echo love, sanctuary

or clean lines, be guided by your own vision and values.

You’ll be much happier in the space you create.

Clearing Clutter

Visual clarity

What grabs the eye when you look around your home? Increase

calm with visual order. Target displayed items, books and

magazines, cleared surfaces and storage solutions.

Moving stuff out

Get rid of all those items you need to bid farewell - donate,

discard or sell.

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Household Systems & Paperwork

Household systems

Household management out of control? Restore some order with

shopping lists, birthday gift planning, auto-bill paying and a family

calendar for events, reminders and important information.

Paperwork

Organize yourself to minimize the paper you bring in, streamline

your paperwork processing and file papers you (really!) need for

reference.

Focus on what you want your home to be, not on some

external notion that doesn’t resonate with you.

Simplifying your Home and Your Life

Letting go of stuff

Want to clear the clutter but find you’re fighting your own

excuses? Explore and overcome sources of resistance, and remind

yourself of the benefits of moving past them.

Streamlining your home

Ready for some home streamlining? Clear out unused stuff and

cancel unread subscriptions. Then set yourself up for an ongoing

system of regular donation/discarding/recycling.

This is an edited extract from Life & Goal Organizer’s My Home Module introduction. The module

contains detailed worksheets for various organizing projects, including those suggested above.

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My Home Plan

Areas I want to organize

Organized!

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7 | Organize your Personal Presentation

We’ve all seen those make-over shows

where Ms Frumpy gets a new haircut

and wardrobe and - hey presto! Her

whole life is transformed!

Those shows might be a tad extreme but

let’s face it: the way we present

ourselves to the world affects how we

feel about ourselves, how people

respond to us, and how we internalize the way they treat us. It can

be a vicious or a virtuous circle, depending on what we see in the

mirror.

So it makes sense to get organized and give ourselves the best

starting point from which to face the world.

Let’s get our boots on!

Expressing your Best Self

Looking good

You’ll be amazed how good you feel without clothes that are out

of style, ill-fitting, don’t suit or look less than your best. Get rid of

them!

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Feeling good

Same goes for clothes with bad associations, that need constant

adjusting, don’t suit your lifestyle or just don’t feel nice on you.

Garment care

Get clothes, shoes and boots dry-cleaned, mended, laundered or

altered. Shape ‘em up or ship ‘em out!

Missing pieces

After a wardrobe cleanse you’ll see what you need. Fun tops,

fitted shapes, basics, neutrals, bold or bright – take inventory.

Outfits for your lifestyle

You wear so many hats – be sure you have the outfits to match!

Organize business, weekend, special occasion & whatever else

your life demands.

Knowing what suits you

Get organized to learn what suits you – colors, shapes, styles,

lengths, necklines, accessories. Plus what to avoid. Take a critical

look in the mirror, or ask a friend.

The way we present ourselves to the world affects how

we feel about ourselves, how people respond to us, and

how we internalize the way they treat us.

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Coats, bags & accessories

Do your shoes, coats, bags and accessories reflect your style?

Check these items for condition, lifestyle & look.

Organizing your closet

Upgrade your hangers. Hang your clothes by look, type and color.

Group tees and jumpers by warmth and color, and store them so

they’re visible.

Grooming, Poise & Confidence

Skincare & make-up

Organize your routine, streamline skincare and make-up

products, attend to sun protection and have a look that suits.

Grooming

Organize hair style, cut and color, brows, teeth and oral hygiene,

fingernail care and polish, and toenail care.

Poise & confidence

Organize yourself to address areas like posture, speaking up,

speaking clearly, public speaking/presenting, dealing with nervous

mannerisms and getting constructive feedback from trusted friends.

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

Publilius Syrus

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Accoutrements

Wallet & keys

Is your cluttered life reflected in a purse bulging with ancient

receipts and a set of keys better suited to a prison guard? Then

change all that - you’ll smile every time you use either one.

Diary/PDA, phone & iPod

Ditch random paper scraps, keep all appointments in one place,

update your contacts and organize your iPod playlists.

Handbag

While a messy purse turns every attempt to find keys, money or a

tissue into an ordeal, a well-organized handbag creates a lovely

sense of order. Spring-clean your bag and you’ll calm your life.

Make-up purse

Streamline the contents of your on-the-go cosmetics purse. Find

small sizes of essential items and feel lighter straight away.

It makes sense to get organized and give ourselves the

best starting point from which to face the world.

This is an edited extract from Life & Goal Organizer’s Personal Presentation Module introduction. The

module contains detailed worksheets for various organizing projects, including those suggested above.

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My Personal Presentation Plan

Areas I want to organize

Organized!

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8 | Organize your Strategies for Happiness

Do you want to be happy? Of course

– we all do! So what do you do to

create your own happiness? Is it

something you cultivate, or do just

hope it shows up in your life? Is that

proving an effective strategy?

Before you protest that pursuing your

own happiness is selfish, check out

the list of ways that happiness makes you less of a drain and more

of an asset to your family, friends, workplace, society, even world!

Happiness is linked to physical health, mental health, better

coping skills, long life, greater resilience, work satisfaction, good

relationships with colleagues, friends and loved ones, immune

system strength, self-liking, altruism, liking others and conflict

management.

That means you can feel really good about making happiness a

goal for yourself. Happiness isn’t just an end in itself; it’s also a

means to being, doing, and giving more. So let’s get organized to

be happier!

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of

life.

Burton Hills

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Happiness Mindset

Cognitive strategies

Is it time to upgrade negative thinking habits? Target black &

white thinking, perfectionism, assuming the worst,

catastrophizing, labeling, being a drama queen, taking things

personally, deflecting positives, assuming feelings are facts, etc.

Beliefs

What negative beliefs do you hold about yourself, your life and

your future? Come up with more empowering beliefs. Challenging

your negative beliefs can powerfully affect your happiness.

Optimism

Are you pessimistic about yourself, your life, your future? If you

want more optimism, make it a point to notice unhelpful mental

habits and choose better ones. Awareness starts you thinking

differently.

What do you do to create your own happiness? Is it

something you cultivate, or do just hope it shows up in

your life?

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Strategies for Happiness

According to psychology research, the following areas are linked

to happiness.

Gratitude

This may be one of the most effective happiness strategies there

is. Make it your thing in 2009 to have an ‘attitude of gratitude’.

Strengths

Think about your particular strengths (ask a friend if you’re not

sure what they are). Plan ways to use them more in your life.

Resilience

How can you do some DIY resilience boosting? Consider nurturing

self-esteem, having a supportive network of friends, thinking

positively, being more optimistic, expressing yourself and

avoiding too much stress.

Mood boosters

For times when things go wrong or you feel down, have a list of

little pleasures for cheering yourself up. Build an inventory of

mood boosters.

Kindness

Psychology research suggests that kindness and happiness are

related. Explore opportunities for greater kindness in your life.

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Releasing Barriers to Happiness

Following are attitudes and tendencies that can sour your

thoughts and make happiness almost impossible – so release

them!

Worry

If this is a problem you want to to address this year, how might

you approach tackling worry?

Grudges

It’s time to gain awareness of grudges you hold against yourself or

others, and to start to let go.

Happiness is linked to physical health, mental health,

better coping skills, long life, greater resilience, work

satisfaction, good relationships with colleagues,

friends and loved ones, immune system strength, self-

liking, altruism, liking others and conflict

management.

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Cynicism

Cynicism can destroy your capacity for joy. Turn your focus to

enjoyment, beauty, wonder, curiosity, and seeing the good in

others. Don’t be a slave to cynicism.

Negativity

Address the negative things you say to others about yourself, your

appearance, your abilities, the world, other people and life.

Acknowledge you’re ready to stop, and you’ll start to change.

Negative self-talk

Target the negative things you say to yourself about you, your

appearance, your abilities, the world, people and life. Becoming

aware of your negative self-talk helps you change it.

You can feel really good about making happiness a

goal for yourself. Happiness isn’t just an end in itself;

it’s also a means to being, doing, and giving more.

This is an edited extract from Life & Goal Organizer’s Strategies for Happiness Module introduction. The

module contains detailed worksheets for various organizing projects, including those suggested above.

Organize Your Life & Goals

My Happiness Plan

Areas I want to organize

Organized!

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9 | Organize your Money & Finance

Most of us know what we should do to take

charge of our financial lives. Depending on

the individual situation it could be some or

all of these: reduce debt, save more, invest

wisely, review investment strategy, keep

good records, create and stick to a budget,

get the insurance you need, firm up money

knowledge, or find decent financial

advisors.

The stumbling block for many of us isn’t knowing what to do, but

getting organized – preparing and taking the steps to manage our

finances.

That’s exactly what these suggestions are designed to do. They’re

not meant to give you advice, but to help you organize the steps

you believe are right for you in managing your financial goals and

future.

Before you speak, listen. Before you write,

think. Before you spend, earn. Before you

invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait.

Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.

Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

William A. Ward

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Debt

Outstanding debts

For many people reducing debt is the first phase of a financial

plan. Consider cancelling credit cards, ordering debt by interest

charge, and debt consolidation.

Paying bills on time

Do you need to organize strategies for reducing excessive interest

– like diarizing due dates, using online banking/auto-pay, paying

full credit card balances, and increasing loan repayments?

Reducing expenses

Start by listing expenses. Then you can choose which amounts

you want to reduce, and tick them off as you cut down.

Most of us know what we should do to take charge of

our financial lives.

Day-to-day financial management

Financial records

It’s difficult to feel on top of your finances if your financial

paperwork is a mess. Resolve to set up a personal system for your

financial records and to file your documents.

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Budget

Set up a simple monthly budget. Include categories like : Home,

Motor, Children, Insurance, Transport, Food, Personal, Health, &

Leisure. Fill in ‘Planned’ now, and ‘Actual’ at month-end.

Financial system

Perhaps you want to streamline your financial life. Consider

cancelling credit cards and consolidating accounts – including

bank, retirement, debt and investment accounts.

The stumbling block for many of us isn’t knowing what

to do, but getting organized – preparing and taking the

steps to manage our finances.

Protecting your Family, Assets and Self

(insurance)

Life, health, income

Time to take stock of your insurance? Do you have adequate life

insurance? Health/medical? Disability? Income protection? What

other insurance do you need?

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Assets

Are your assets adequately protected against loss/damage?

Consider insurance for your home, possessions, car, boat,

business, and other assets you want to insure.

Security

Think about general measures for increasing the security of your

home, business, assets, and health, as well as protecting yourself

against theft and fraud.

Contingencies

There are contingencies we avoid thinking about - but it’s wise to

be prepared. Consider wills, living wills, powers of attorney &

other matters to discuss with your solicitor.

Advisers & Knowledge

Financial advisers

Is it time to review your accountant, tax agent, bank manager,

insurer and stock broker?

Financial knowledge

What areas of financial knowledge do you want to improve –

general, tax, investment, debt-reduction, accounting, or financial

planning? Get organized and get smart!

This is an edited extract from Life & Goal Organizer’s Money & Finance Module introduction. The

module contains detailed worksheets for various organizing projects, including those suggested above.

Organize Your Life & Goals

My Money & Finance Plan

Areas I want to organize

Organized!

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10 | Organize your Relationships

Relationships are fundamental to

human beings. We can be nurtured,

fulfilled and supported by our

connections with our loved ones,

our friends, and even the

colleagues we work and spend so

much time with.

On the other hand, relationships that go sour can upset

everything, draining us of energy, depriving us of sleep, even

making us bitter.

When we stop and think about what’s most important to us, we

often say ‘relationships’. Yet when do we proactively take

inventory of our relationships, or consciously think about ways to

improve them?

Why not devote some thought and time to organizing these all-

important aspects of life. Let’s get organized…

Let us be grateful to people who make us

happy, they are the charming gardeners who

make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

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Nurturing Special Relationships

Most of us have relationships that hold a special place in our

hearts – perhaps a partner, children, special friends, or a close

sibling.

If there’s room for improvement in your special relationships,

consider:

 How to address the challenge or opportunity

 The other person’s perspective

 Their good qualities

 Ways you’ve dealt successfully with relationships in the

past

 Areas for discussion with the person.

Dealing with Energy-Draining Relationships

What about people who consistently leave you drained and

exhausted? Instead of suffering in silence or getting mad, for each

‘energy-drainer’ in your life, consider:

 What exactly drains you

 Whether it’s short or long-term (ie, whether it will sort

itself out in time)

 How you could act differently

 What you could say

 How you could reduce the time you spend with the person.

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Enhancing Relationship Skills

It’s wise to keep plenty of focus on yourself in relationship-

improvement thinking - since that’s the only person you have any

real control over!

Meeting new people

Target shyness, becoming more outgoing, initiating

conversations, inviting people out socially, going out more

yourself and being open with people you meet.

Unhelpful relationship beliefs

Become aware of beliefs that might interfere with your

relationships (eg that people always let you down, or that you

need someone to make you happy), and brainstorm more helpful

ones.

We can be nurtured, fulfilled and supported by our

connections with our loved ones, our friends, and even

the colleagues we work and spend so much time with.

Communicating better

Would it help your relationships if you were to be more open,

trusting or appreciative? Do you need to work on managing

anger, listening better or criticizing less?

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Handling conflict

Some conflict is inevitable, but you could focus on expressing

yourself clearly, staying rational, understanding the other person,

clarifying, asking for what you want, and apologizing.

Being more independent or assertive

If you want more independence you might like to work on taking

responsibility, relying more on yourself, learning to live without

others’ approval and saying ‘no’ nicely.

Getting help

If you feel you’d like more help, consider options like books,

courses, talking with a friend, seeking counseling/therapy alone or

with a partner, or a couples’ course.

When we stop and think about what’s most important

to us, we often say ‘relationships’. Yet when do we

proactively take inventory of our relationships, or

consciously think about ways to improve them?

This is an edited extract from Life & Goal Organizer’s Relationships Module introduction. The module

contains detailed worksheets for various organizing projects, including those suggested above.

Organize Your Life & Goals

My Relationships Plan

Areas I want to organize

Organized!

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11 | Organize your Time

Few of us are at peace with time.

Mostly, we struggle to get things

done; we lament that there aren’t

enough hours in the day; we feel

like we’re always running but

never catching up.

We search in vain for ‘the answer’

– some Holy Grail lying beyond or grasp, holding the secret to

getting everything done, perfectly.

But finding the right time-management system is a bit like

searching for the ideal handbag or the perfect diet. It can be a

long and expensive process, full of promising highs and

disappointing lows, but ultimately unsatisfying. There’s always

something shiny and new that catches your eye or gets you

excited – and then you’re off again.

The following suggestions aren’t about creating the perfect

planner or putting your life on an egg-timer. They’re about the

bigger picture of your priorities and how your use of time reflects -

or fails to reflect - the things that matter to you.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we

spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

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Analyzing Your Schedule

How you spend time

Can’t work out where your time goes? This can be an enlightening

exercise: For several typical days keep an hourly log of what you

do. Be honest – it’s all useful! Categorize activities if you like.

Priorities

Next, take time to list your priorities and order by importance.

The idea is to get clear about what matters to you – a crucial step

in using your time well.

Does your schedule reflect your priorities?

It’s a shock to discover your time expenditure contradicts your

priorities. But once you identify the mismatch you can target

specific areas for a more aligned life.

Mostly, we struggle to get things done; we lament that

there aren’t enough hours in the day; we feel like we’re

always running but never catching up.

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Streamlining Your Schedule

Work tasks

Instead of cramming everything into your day, why not take a

step back to consider your work tasks more strategically.

What can you:

 Simplify?

 Eliminate?

 Delegate?

 Outsource/sub-contract?

 Batch?

Commuting/travel time

How can you reduce travel time or make it more productive?

Try listening to audiobooks, preparing for the day, meditating or

blog reading.

Family time

Want more quality family time? List your family activities and then

consider:

 Which are unrewarding? How can you reduce them?

 Which are nurturing? How can you do these more?

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Home tasks

As with your work tasks, identify the home tasks you do and

consider them more strategically.

What can you:

 Simplify?

 Eliminate?

 Delegate?

 Outsource/sub-contract?

 Batch?

Self time

Is your ‘self’ time eaten up in unsatisfying ways? List activities and

explore ways to get more from your time. Batch seasonal clothes

shopping? Eliminate waxing with laser? Read during pedicures?

Finding the right time-management system is like

searching for the ideal handbag or the perfect diet.

It can be a long and expensive process, full of

promising highs and disappointing lows,

but ultimately unsatisfying.

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Stopping Time Wasters

We struggle with time, yet most of us fritter away great chunks of

it daily without realizing. This section targets some of those

sneaky time pacmans.

Busywork

Which of your activities feel virtuous but waste time? Paper

shuffling? Meetings? Over-planning/organizing? Excessive email

checking?

Low-value recreation

Many of us ‘relax’ with activities we don’t really enjoy, out of

habit. Audit your recreation for value.

Self-sabotaging behavior

We can be at the mercy of habits like over-committing ourselves,

indecision, procrastination, multi-tasking, rescuing others and

unassertiveness. Gain greater awareness of these tendencies and

organize your plan to reduce them.

Distractions

Losing time to distractions? Take inventory of visual, auditory,

physical, mental and other distractions and interruptions and

consider how to deal with them more effectively.

This is an edited extract from Life & Goal Organizer’s Time Management Module introduction. The

module contains detailed worksheets for various organizing projects, including those suggested above.

Organize Your Life & Goals

My Time Management Plan

Areas I want to organize

Organized!

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12| Organize Your Family

Family can be a source of intimacy,

companionship, happiness and

support. We can enjoy sharing good

times with loved ones, building a

bond with our partner, nurturing

our children and sharing closeness

and memories with our siblings.

But family can also be the bane of our lives. Tension, rivalries,

unresolved marital conflict, ancient feuds, troubled children,

aging parents, even lingering childhood pettiness in grown

siblings can all leave us in dread of ‘family time’.

These organizing suggestions aren’t designed to offer family

therapy, but they may help you improve some parts of your family

life.

Other things may change us, but we start and

end with the family.

Anthony Brandt

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Supporting Your Spouse/Partner

Work challenges

Explore ways you want to support your partner in various work

areas - including career development, work/family balance, work

relationships, skills development and other work issues.

Personal challenges

Consider personal areas in which you’d like to support your

partner. These might include your partner’s relationship with the

kids, family activities, health or medical issues, personal growth,

and spiritual growth.

Helping and Coaching Your Kids

It’s easy to be reactive to the daily challenges kids bring your way

– whether school concerns or personal issues. You can take a

more proactive approach by consciously planning and organizing

your support and coaching goals for each child.

School challenges

Consider how you want to help your child with school. Areas

might include school progress, teacher relationships, peer

relationships, sporting activities, and extra-curricular activities, as

well as any special care you think helpful.

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Personal challenges

Think about how you want to help your child outside of school.

Areas might include home relationships, family activities, health

or medical issues, developing hobbies and interests, nurturing

talents and abilities, as well as any special care you think helpful.

Difficult Conversations

Parents

Do you need to plan actions or conversations relating to

retirement, health or medical issues, living arrangements, powers

of attorney and other contingencies, or financial issues?

Siblings

Do you need to plan actions or conversations relating to family

issues, family gatherings, parent issues, resolving/forgiving past

conflicts, or spending more time together?

These organizing suggestions aren’t designed to offer

family therapy, but they may help you improve some

parts of your family life.

This is an edited extract from Life & Goal Organizer’s My Family Module introduction. The module

contains detailed worksheets for various organizing projects, including those suggested above.

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My Family Plan

Areas I want to organize

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