“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
― Benjamin Franklin
Since 2019 has entered, I know some of you out there are planning to make a resolution out of it.
New Year, New Me.
Cliche' right?
But if you are serious in being productive, please take note that you need to plan and plan ahead.
Here are some quick and useful tips in making that plan, remember what Benjamin Franklin said,
"By Failing to Prepare, you are preparing to fail."
or I believe you have heard of something like, When you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Now let's proceed..
In planning, you have to remember 3 things, well this works for me, IDEA, EVENTS and TASKS.
and with that 3 things it is very useful if you use these 3 apps from your phone lying around.
NOTES, CALENDAR and REMINDERS.
You can back it up with a PLANNER notebook if you want or if you are not a fan of using those Phone Applications.
1. IDEA - This is where you put any ideas that pops up in your mind, or what you have thought, or even that you plan to execute. This is also where creative thoughts happen, list of things that you want to do and review it later. In your phone, you can put this all in your NOTES Application.
In planning, you have to remember 3 things, well this works for me, IDEA, EVENTS and TASKS.
and with that 3 things it is very useful if you use these 3 apps from your phone lying around.
NOTES, CALENDAR and REMINDERS.
You can back it up with a PLANNER notebook if you want or if you are not a fan of using those Phone Applications.
1. IDEA - This is where you put any ideas that pops up in your mind, or what you have thought, or even that you plan to execute. This is also where creative thoughts happen, list of things that you want to do and review it later. In your phone, you can put this all in your NOTES Application.
2. EVENT - Since you have thought of something already, and you plan to execute it, do not fire away, do not just execute those, you need to plan it, set a schedule for it and you can have it done in a timely manner. What you can do with events also are your personal things that you plan to do, let's say you need to go to a seminar, you need to go to a wedding, put it there, the Date, the Time and the Place. Plan your days ahead with this, put it in your calendar, write it down so you wont miss it. You may use your CALENDAR Application, personally I use the GOOGLE CALENDAR App because it syncs in all my devices.
3. TASK - This is actually tricky, if you have an activity or piece of work to be done or things you need you need to buy, things you need to accomplish, just put it here. It can be related to the IDEA because it might be an IDEA but it is actually a TASK, but all in all if it is a chore, house chore, an office task, put it here. You can put those tasks at your REMINDER app.
so to sum it up,
if you have an Idea, a creative thought, a thing that bugs you but you want to look back at it from time to time, you can tag it as an IDEA and put it in your NOTES.
if you have a gig, an event, outing, date, seminar, planned physical activity, planned meal with someone, or anything that is scheduled and needs to be scheduled, tag it as an EVENT. Put those events in your CALENDAR.
if you have a task, a chore, you need you need to clean something, do something, go to something or you wish to not forget a thing or list and you need to accomplish those things, then tag it as a TASK.
It will never hurt if you plan ahead, you will be surprised on how not busy you are despite your busy schedule you can still squeeze in some stuff that you need or want to do.
Living an organized life will not make you a little less of a man or a woman, it will make you more mature, and have a lot of peace of mind.
Avoiding clutters in life reduces stress, and reducing stress means a healthy life ahead.
so to sum it up,
if you have an Idea, a creative thought, a thing that bugs you but you want to look back at it from time to time, you can tag it as an IDEA and put it in your NOTES.
if you have a gig, an event, outing, date, seminar, planned physical activity, planned meal with someone, or anything that is scheduled and needs to be scheduled, tag it as an EVENT. Put those events in your CALENDAR.
if you have a task, a chore, you need you need to clean something, do something, go to something or you wish to not forget a thing or list and you need to accomplish those things, then tag it as a TASK.
It will never hurt if you plan ahead, you will be surprised on how not busy you are despite your busy schedule you can still squeeze in some stuff that you need or want to do.
Living an organized life will not make you a little less of a man or a woman, it will make you more mature, and have a lot of peace of mind.
Avoiding clutters in life reduces stress, and reducing stress means a healthy life ahead.
