5 simple steps to organizing & simplifying your life. This guide shows you how to discover your bottle-necked problem areas in your daily schedule and helps you create an effective schedule to get more done in your day to move on to your important long-term tasks.

1. 5 STEPS TO AN ORGANIZED YOU
GETTING ORGANIZED GUIDEBOOK

2. I wanted to maximize my time,
fulfill my business goals, and spend
time with my family.

3. All while not STRESSING out of my
mind!

4. STEP ONE
CORRECTING YOUR MIND

5. “If you correct your mind,
the rest of your life will fall into
place.”
-Lao Tzu

6. No matter how
organized we
are, eventually
we run out of
time to get
things done.

7. I slept less and
STRESSED more.

8. I wanted to get
things DONE so I
could MOVE ON to
more important
things.

9. “We have to correct our
minds to unlearn old
nonproductive patterns to
relearn new, more effective
behaviors. ”

11. Jot down what patterns you know
aren’t working.

12. STEP TWO
Managing the Easy

13. “Anticipate the difficult by
managing the easy. -Lao Tzu”

14. Now that we have a list of our
problem areas, it should be
obvious what your problem is.

15. My problem was that I was trying
to get a task done to completion
then move on to the next.

16. Breaking up tasks into smaller
pieces actually allowed me to
finish quicker.

17. As we’re all different, I’d like you
to take the time to jot down what
you’ve found your problem to be.

18. This will help you discover which
routines are the quickest and
easiest to perform.
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19. These are the areas you can
bunch up and perform a little of a
lot.

20. STEP THREE

21. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I
don’t have time’ is like saying ‘I
don’t want to. -Lao Tzu”

22. Although it didn’t feel as if I was
accomplishing much the last
several weeks, I’m finally
finished!

23. To help you get started, my
priorities are:

24. Our goal isn’t to get all this
done at once.

25. We want to use some time every
week to work a little bit on these
things.

26. You can’t really have an effective
schedule unless you know what
your priorities are.

27. STEP FOUR

28. “Your mind is everything. What
you think, you become. -Buddha”

29. Can you free up time in the
morning by changing your
schedule?

30. What priorities are you prepared
and willing to work on?

31. What routine tasks have you been
doing that you can lump together
and do almost at once?

33. STEP FIVE

34. “Progress is impossible without
change and those who cannot
change their minds cannot
change anything.–George
Bernard Shaw”

35. What will you do to simplify
your day and organize your life?

36. What will you do to simplify
your day and organize your life?

37. What will you do to simplify
your day and organize your life?

38. What will you do to simplify
your day and organize your life?