The First Step is to Organize Our Lives

When we set out to begin work, the first step we ideally take is to clear our desk and organize our tools. Or else to maintain a state optimized for whatever our work may entail. Likewise, in order to live in a way that is powerful and focused we must also Organize Our Lives.

Our habits and actions over time must gradually be refined. A stable network of small habits keep us and our environments clean and organized. Our home is clean and our work environment is optimized for productive work, appearing in whatever fashion concepts like “clean” and “organized” are interpreted by the individual.

When we begin to organize our life we must ponder deeply our vision of what we desire to be like., what we want to accomplish, while constantly seeking a better understanding of who we are.

Being driven by curiosity and passion we choose a path that we find ourselves in, at every stage of the way. Even if our decisions sometimes seem radical, passion and curiosity are the true guides. In time this leads to a conscious refinement to our actions and habits towards an expression of who we are. This is the deepest layer of what it means to organize our lives.

Organize Your Environment

Firstly, Organize your life means to provide a stable foundation for your life. Tasks as seemingly mundane as clearing your desk, making your bed, keeping your space clean and organize, and attending to personal hygiene as a fundamental habit all enable us to master ourselves.

We make our beds every morning not so that the room looks nice, but because it is more effective to do so. It is more masterful. Each might we may equal attention when we roll out or sleeping mat, and to the routines we have both upon waking and in preparation for sleep.

These have proven to be powerful times to both learn, do, make progress, and impress the subconscious mind. Though even more important is the intent to live our lives in such a way that every action we take comes from a place of attention. We do not act carelessly. We put attention to detail in every one of our creations, assignments, and tasks both great and small. Though with our diligence we take care of all small things before they become large issues because it is more effective do so.

Organize Our Lives with Carefully Chosen Actions

To be efficient, effective, and highly skilled individuals we ultimately need to emphasize both our strengths and our passions. Only what is truly important to us. Over time a strict training regimen in whatever discipline we have chosen to dedicate our lives to will become inevitable, incorporating all aspects of learning process from study (new learning), practice and training (intermediate skill and mastery), and performance (publication, final expression) within it. Each of these areas are necessary in the diligent practice of any discipline.

To organize our lives is to begin to consider why do we do what we do in our lives? Ultimate purpose. What do we accomplish? But more importantly, who are we? Who do we want to become. For all of the big questions we first have to look within ourselves to figure out how we think and feel about everything. Start with what is within our lives, the struggles we face, how to deal with them, while also not being afraid to explore deeper and greater questions for ourselves.

Knowledge from all places can give us wisdom, including many unlikely places, if we look carefully enough. Constantly test yourself by exploring as many arts, disciplines, and knowledge that appeals to us. Until we find something that strikes a chord of passion and curiosity. Then, follow that. In the end the main question we must answer for ourselves is who are we embodied to some degree in the actual experience of what we do each day guided by our vision of what do we want to do and accomplish with our lives.

Focus on what we have control over. We make the decision to find what we passionate about and develop expertise in it. We also have the capacity to figure out how to give that to the world in a way that benefits both others and ourselves.

The work we do each day, while founded on ultimate self-expression, will shape us and our lives. It will guide us to the people who will influence us, to people whom we resonate with (and many we don’t). When we seek to organize our lives we first consider who we are and want to become, so that we can see the actions we can take to develop ourselves in that direction, before eventually disciplining ourselves in a daily training related to our discipline.

A Foundation For Growth And Progress

When we organize our lives, we tighten up our lives. We resolve the issues that we face in our lives and chosen to resolve all loose ends. We see every creation through to the end. We finish each small project, and achieve each small goal, with diligence. Completing every small piece consistently with relaxed but enduring attention as we work incrementally towards much greater aims.

This organization of our behavior, habits, minds, and mastery of our learning and creative processes is a later stage on our path to organize our lives. Achieved in a dynamic state of consistently making progress. Getting high quality work done on a consistent basis.

All of this stems from the attempt to organize our lives. We clean our environment, our home, workspace, our training space. Everything. We make our beds. We build daily rituals that enable us to completely take care of ourselves on a human level, addressing mind, body, and spirit.

We remove all extraneous pieces that distract our attention from what is truly important. We seek the full realization of who we are and potential of a life. We seek spiritual connection. The challenge of family, friends, work, professional life, passions, and time to explore the cultures, environments, peoples, and pleasures of the world at leisure.

We organize our lives so that we use our time and energy well, so that we don’t forget to include everything as often as possible to the fullest degree, in the time we have.