Organized - methodical and efficient in arrangement or function.
I was talking with a colleague at work this week about how I manage to keep a complex set of problems and responsibilities organized and from being overwhelmed. She herself was feeling totally overwhelmed and was looking for any help. This is the strategy that the Lord gave me back in the 80s when I ‘burned myself out’ trying to do too much for too long.
First - God blessed me in that I just think organized, I see a problem, I then see the steps necessary to get to the end. Not everyone does, but just as I have learned to be an exhorter, you can learn from others a few steps to help you be organized.
Second - I use the resources available and don’t expect or try and do everything myself. Thank God I can rely on Him when I just don’t know what to do next.
Third – layout a plan or a map of how to achieve your goal, with out a plan you can easily get off course.
Four – Once I have a plan I manage the exceptions. The plan should manage itself.
Forth - make a list of the things that need to be done, not so much so you can keep track of them, but more so that you can cross them off and see that you really are getting stuff done. When you are feeling overwhelmed it is usually because you are looking at the end and not seeing the steps that are already behind you or the fact that you accomplished something.
Fifth - pick one or at the most two things that you will get done each day and make sure that getting them done is realistic. The trick here is that at the end of the day you can say that you met your goal. Now if you get more than that done it is extra and you don’t feel condemned.
I have found this strategy useful in every area of my life, not just at work, but in my personal life also. As a working woman I sometimes get overwhelmed with the things I need to do at home as well as in the office. Think about it, I know for me I really don’t like spending all day on a Saturday cleaning house so I do it in steps in the evening during the week. Clean the bathrooms and vacuum upstairs one night and clean the kitchen and vacuum the downstairs the next, do the laundry on Friday nights when Kyle and I are sitting around watching TV. That leaves Saturday’s open for what ever else I may want to do.
So for today make a list and find one thing that you can get done. You will feel better knowing you accomplished something when you lay your head on the pillow tonight.
I was talking with a colleague at work this week about how I manage to keep a complex set of problems and responsibilities organized and from being overwhelmed. She herself was feeling totally overwhelmed and was looking for any help. This is the strategy that the Lord gave me back in the 80s when I ‘burned myself out’ trying to do too much for too long.
First - God blessed me in that I just think organized, I see a problem, I then see the steps necessary to get to the end. Not everyone does, but just as I have learned to be an exhorter, you can learn from others a few steps to help you be organized.
Second - I use the resources available and don’t expect or try and do everything myself. Thank God I can rely on Him when I just don’t know what to do next.
Third – layout a plan or a map of how to achieve your goal, with out a plan you can easily get off course.
Four – Once I have a plan I manage the exceptions. The plan should manage itself.
Forth - make a list of the things that need to be done, not so much so you can keep track of them, but more so that you can cross them off and see that you really are getting stuff done. When you are feeling overwhelmed it is usually because you are looking at the end and not seeing the steps that are already behind you or the fact that you accomplished something.
Fifth - pick one or at the most two things that you will get done each day and make sure that getting them done is realistic. The trick here is that at the end of the day you can say that you met your goal. Now if you get more than that done it is extra and you don’t feel condemned.
I have found this strategy useful in every area of my life, not just at work, but in my personal life also. As a working woman I sometimes get overwhelmed with the things I need to do at home as well as in the office. Think about it, I know for me I really don’t like spending all day on a Saturday cleaning house so I do it in steps in the evening during the week. Clean the bathrooms and vacuum upstairs one night and clean the kitchen and vacuum the downstairs the next, do the laundry on Friday nights when Kyle and I are sitting around watching TV. That leaves Saturday’s open for what ever else I may want to do.
So for today make a list and find one thing that you can get done. You will feel better knowing you accomplished something when you lay your head on the pillow tonight.
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