Table of contents:
- 1. Summarize the past year
- 2. Put things in order in your schedule and eliminate unnecessary things
- 3. Take stock of old projects and fulfill your obligations
- 4. Forget about your old fitness and nutrition plans
- 5. Organize your mail
- 6. Understand social media
- 7. Place your files in order on your computer
- 8. Conduct an audit in papers
- 9. Arrange a general cleaning
- 10. Put your personal finances in order
- 11. Clean up your pantry and refrigerator
2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
The famous blogger Leo Babauta tells how to streamline life, exclude everything unnecessary from it and make room for new thoughts and actions.
1. Summarize the past year
Understand what you did, what you missed, and why. What mistakes have you made and what can you learn from past failures? What has been achieved and what has simply become irrelevant?
2. Put things in order in your schedule and eliminate unnecessary things
This often means saying no to many people. You've learned how to do this, haven't you?
3. Take stock of old projects and fulfill your obligations
And your new work plans will be much clearer than usual.
4. Forget about your old fitness and nutrition plans
Better make room for new interesting experiments.
5. Organize your mail
This means watching all the drivers. If letters remain unanswered for a long time, they are most likely not so important, but they are an eyesore. So send them to the archive. Write replies to important emails and get rid of spam - all this needs to be done, no matter how much you want to postpone it for later.
6. Understand social media
Social media sometimes accumulates even more messages than email. This also applies to lists of things or books that you once wanted to buy or read. All this takes up mental space and is distracting.
7. Place your files in order on your computer
If you've got a mountain of files on your desktop, it's time to get busy sorting or deleting them. You have no idea what you can find there if you haven't performed such a procedure for a long time!
As a result, free up space on your hard drive and in your head.
8. Conduct an audit in papers
It would be very convenient if all our documents were stored and sent electronically. But until now, many are forced to deal with a huge amount of papers. Putting order in these deposits takes the most time and effort. Those who are unwittingly associated with accounting, tax and other government services will definitely understand.
9. Arrange a general cleaning
This applies to your desk, bag, apartment or home. All corners must be cleaned, and unnecessary things are either thrown away or handed over to those who need them.
10. Put your personal finances in order
Receipts, bills, loans, deposits - all of this should be checked and with a calm heart put on hold until needed. To start something new, you need to be confident in your capabilities. It will be very annoying if you start your own business and an unpaid loan or a large bill suddenly pops up.
11. Clean up your pantry and refrigerator
Junk food, spoiled food, or canned items that are in their second year should be thrown away. Firstly, stale food in the refrigerator starts all kinds of abomination, and secondly, it's time to finally pull yourself together and start eating healthy food.
Everything old and unnecessary should remain in the old year, all useful experience and new skills should be transferred to the new one so that you can do even more interesting things and move forward along the intended path.
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