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We all have that one person at work or school who is effortlessly organized. They never seem to miss any deadlines, always finish their work with time to spare, and always know where they can find what they are looking for.
And let’s face it: you are obviously jealous of them. But why? Why be jealous when you can actually learn from them and be the same as them? They do seem to be on the right track with life, don’t they?
Being organized isn’t just something you adapt to. Well, okay, initially it is. But slowly as you dwell in your organized lifestyle, you tend to start taking it more as a mindset rather than a way of living. For instance, you begin living your life in an organized manner, with each and every thing in your routine well thought out. And then comes a time where your systems and your rituals are actually morphed into your routine, and your mind adapts to them as habits. If you actually happen to get to this stage; congratulations, you’ve officially become an organized person.
Without further ado, let’s get you introduced to the 20 daily habits of highly organized people. Don’t worry, it’s nothing you can’t handle!
Here’s the deal: it doesn’t matter at what time of the day you check your inbox. What matters is that you have a dedicated timeslot each day, let’s say, half an hour, for reading and answering all your emails. Your cluttered up inbox won’t go anywhere unless you handle it appropriately.
If you have a pile of mail, then dedicating some of your time to sort these bad boys out on a daily basis, just like your emails, won’t hurt.
There should absolutely be no space at all for clutter on your desk. If there are piles of paper that need to be sorted out, get straight to it!
Staying organized isn’t all about being uptight. You should always spare some time out for things that make you who you are. You don’t want to be a prisoner of your routine now, do you?
Each and every thing is supposed to go in its rightful place. Don’t leave your socks in the fridge!
Following a to-do list is like your primary source of organization. Never miss out on it!
What’s more important? Get to it first! Don’t forget to prioritize. Postpone whatever that can be done sometime later and get to the dirty-bits first.
You’re doing just fine with your daily routine and are almost half-way through, when it out of nowhere, your best friend calls you up for an urgent meeting. Did you leave enough room for this sudden readjustment in your to-do list? You had better!
Again, it’s not about being a prisoner of your routine when you can always cut some time out for yourself. Read a book, watch a movie, hit the gym; whatever that floats your boat!
This is the holy grail of staying organized. Don’t leave any task half done. Leaving unfinished business is the hallmark of a disorganized person.
Your routine needs you in order to complete. You need food in order to complete your routine. What can you possibly do without enough energy? It’s a simple equation.
Once you’re done with your day, then would be a good time to plan for the coming day. Every day needs its own unique to-do list!
You can’t leave room for error. Have everything on your side to help you avoid them. Set alarms, reminders, and whatever else you need to deal with your tasks on time.
The best example in this regard is your notification list. The latest cat video on the Internet is irrelevant. The email you just received from your client is top priority. Make sure you know how to differentiate between these two.
Not everything can be just the way you want it. Sometimes, “good enough” really is enough to get you by. So know where the most feasible option would suffice, and forget about making things perfect.
As mentioned earlier, clutter is your worst enemy. Leave no room for it on your territory!
Pen? Paper? Smartphone? Spare underwear? Yes, you can need any of those at any point. Keep them around you so you don’t face any problems during emergencies.
Staying organized is mainly all about preparing yourself to face turmoil, whenever it shows up. Don’t be afraid of tackling mishaps head on, deal with the elephant in the room first.
You don’t need only the best pen in the whole world to do your paperwork. A mere pencil will be enough. Follow the same ideology regarding everything else. Pick the simplest problem-solver!
This doesn’t mean you need to be a top quality handyman. You don’t even need to be tech-savvy for this one. So long as you know how to keep everything up-to-date and maintained, there is no one that can disturb you in your organized glory!
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Most people love to take a relaxing holiday break when life gets stressful. Hotels offer a relaxing environment where you can relax, eat and swim to your heart’s content. But do you know about the best and most expensive hotel perks out there?
From a hangover service to a pet psychic, we check out 15 of the coolest hotel perks available.
If you take your sleep seriously, this hotel perk is perfect for you. The hotel provides guests with a pillow menu, including a pillow designed by NASA and a five foot body cushion.
Price: Available to all overnight guests, with room priced from $500 per night.
There are three different arrival options at The Six Senses Hideaway – you can take a drive there in a 4×4, or take a scenic boat route. However, nothing compares to the third choice; you can choose to paraglide your way to the hotel with a professional. The ultimate arrival experience!
Price: $183 per person.
The Four Seasons in Beverly Hills is a car lover’s dream; anyone who stays in the Hotel’s new suites gets free access to some amazing cars, including Roll Royces, Ferraris, Bentleys and Lamborghinis.
Price: Exclusively available to guests who book suites. Premier suites priced at over $19,000 per week.
If you love to spend your holidays relaxing on a sun lounger, this holiday perk is perfect for you. The Sunshine Butler will tend to all of your needs, from polishing your sunglasses, misting your face and applying sun cream – luxurious!
Price: Exclusively available to guests who stay in the master suite, priced from $345 per night.
This hotel is more than just pet friendly – you can also rent goldfish by the day if you’re feeling particularly lonely.
Price: Available to all guests, rooms priced from $308 per night.
If you play the guitar, you will love the hotel perk offered at The Hard Rock. They offer 20 different types of Fender guitars that you can have brought to your room for you to use. On top of that, you can have all the extras for free, from amps to video lessons to headphones!
Price: Available to all guests, single room prices from $750 for 3 nights.
If you’re looking to suprise your partner with the perfect proposal, look no further than the Ashford Castle Hotel. You can arrange to have the Hotel’s resident owl Dingle to deliver an engagement ring to whereever you are – the most romantic holiday perk we could find!
Price: 3 day Proposal Package, priced from $2,356.
If you like to travel with your pets, Hotel Monaco has the best hotel perk for you. All pets can stay for free, regardless of size or weight. Even better – if you are worried about the emotional state of your pet, you can book them in for a session with pet psychic Bridget Pilloud.
Price: Available to guests as an add-on package. Rooms priced from $481 per night.
You can have the perfect wedding at the beautiful Ritz Carlton, which offers a beautiful venue and horse drawn carriage rides, as well as the option of a Rolls Royce!
Price: 30 minute horse-drawn carriage ride priced at $8,100.
Guests who stay at the Four Seasons in the Maldives have the option to sign up for the Manta call service, where the resort lets the guests know whenever Manta Rays have been spotted. They then get collected from wherever there are, and whisked away to snorkle with Manta Rays. A great holiday perk for anyone who is interested in the ocean!
Price: Available to all overnight guests, rooms priced from $2,900 per night.
This hotel has high standards of cleaniless; guests can order bespoke soaps from a menu dedicated entirely to soap. You can request almost any kind of handcrafted soap, from scented to exfoliating, to make sure you feel squeaky clean.
Price: Available to all guests, rooms priced from $605 per night.
This holiday perk is perfect for anyone who plans on getting drunk while they are vacationing. The Ritz Carlton offers a Recovery Concierge, which offers a selection of different hangover remedies to Club Level guests, including a hair of the dog cocktail!
Price: Available to guests who stay in the Ritz Carlton suite, available from $5,947 per night.
The MGM grand offers many interesting hotel perks, but one of the most unique is the vitamin C infused shower. It is believed the vitamin C neutralizes the chlorine in the water for a more natural experience.
Price: Available to guests as part of a $30 per night upgrade package.
If you can taste the difference when it comes to water, you may want to experience the Water Library at the Trump Hotel. Offering up different types of water, you can chose water from natural springs, or a sommelier-crafted Beverly Hills option.
Price: Bottles vary between $10-$25.
Mii Amo offers various aura readings to guests at their hotel. They can chose from an Aura-Soma Color Reading or a relaxing Psychic Massage.
Price: 60 minutes for $250.
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Being organized is not something that people inherit: it is more to do with how well you organize your daily routine and tasks to make sure that everything falls into place. All the successful people that you see around you did not achieve success overnight. Nor was success simply handed to them. They worked for the success, and the first step towards success is good organization.
Anyone can be organized and successful. All that is required is the mindset to do things in a proper manner. Here are the 10 mindsets of organized people that lead them towards the epitome of success:
We all know how tedious life can be, and sometimes we feel like we are in a rut! However, organized people do something about that and make sure that the rut that they are faced with is cleared. And they do this with helpful tools that are all around us only if we stop for a second and pay attention. Your tablet, smartphone, and smartwatch are all useful technological tools that you can use to plan, organize, and therefore make your lives a whole lot easier and productive.
Organized people know how to handle their priorities effectively, no matter how hectic their day is. Making a to-do list on a daily basis can be a highly productive effort in such cases. They know what tasks are urgent and thus need to be handled first and foremost.
We all know how our minds are occupied with so many things on a daily basis. However, most of the things that we think about are completely irrelevant, yet we seem to be so consumed by them. This is not the case with organized people. They will make sure to practice mindfulness and remove the clutter from their minds on a daily basis. After this, they will focus on everything that is relevant to them.
Things like TV shows, get-togethers, and gossip are not relevant to such people. For them, reaching their goals is their main priority, and they will make sure that things get done when they need to get done!
Organized people are not perfectionists and neither will they make their lives and work complicated. They prefer doing things in the simplest way possible, as long as they get the job done. Therefore, do not assume organized people to be control freaks. In fact, they love going with the flow, and if they know that circumstances will not let them change certain things, then they simply let them be instead of having a panic attack.
Life will never be perfect and it will entail many ups and downs. However, the important thing to know is that despite those ups and downs, you can take steps to make sure that every aspect of your life is well maintained and in balance. This is exactly what organized people do. They will give attention to the things that require their utmost attention and fix problems as they come up.
Organized people do things in a way that will provide them the most amounts of benefits in the future. For instance, they will never leave dirty dishes in the kitchen since they know that they will only pile up and become a hassle later on.
Clutter can be anyone’s worst nightmare, be it in the mind or the house. While most of the unorganized individuals will live most of their lives in the middle of clutter, the organized ones will eliminate as much of it as possible. Clutter is simply a hindrance to progress, and nothing can get done properly if everything inside of you and around you is a complete mess.
This point is similar to point 4. You will rarely see an organized person crying about something that they cannot control nor do anything about. Instead, they will just go with the flow and let go of things that they are not able to change instead of worrying about them constantly.
Organized people understand that their routine life has no authority over them. In fact, they know that their life can be as interesting and calm as they want it to be. For this reason, they will always make the relevant changes in their life to make sure that they remain the top most priority. They also do not let things get to their head.
Organized people know how important it is to plan things for the future. They will keep in mind any upcoming priorities that need to be taken care of and all the things that they wish to accomplish. This helps them remain vigilant and make sure that everything is in order so that they can live a smooth life without having to do things last minute.
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Do you go through life accepting things as they are? You try to get through one day at a time never really knowing what’s beyond that, you just don’t want to know.
If you feel like life has no purpose and you are frustrated about figuring it all out – start here, with yourself.
These 11 things you should know about yourself will open your mind to possibilities and give you purpose and a positive outlook so you can see beyond ‘just’ making it to the end of the day.
You are special, unique, one of a kind. So why are you always comparing yourself to others? The reality is you have your own personality, quirks and the way you do things accept it. It’s ok to be you.
The things that make you different are the things that make you, you!
Find out what you love – people, things and places. Make what you love a part of your life, if what you love are important to you, why wouldn’t you?
What you love should be what consumes your time. You should never feel guilty for not having the time to see, do and have the things you love. You should make the time.
For every aspect of your life. Make this a priority. Blaming other people for what happens in your life will keep you from being truly happy with whom you are. It’s not about what happens to you, but how you deal with it by taking responsibility.
By taking responsibility – you take control.
Find out and use this to find your passions so you can live fully. What drives you will get you out of bed in the morning and allow you to look forward to a better future.
Is it a dream you have never decided to take action on because life has taken over? Or you are scared to do something because of what others may think?
Get to know what drives you so you can be passionate about life again.
Everyone has strengths that make them good at something. Sometimes this can be difficult to identify because it comes naturally to you. Use these strengths to find your flow. This can be useful to find work or even start a business or career you will love!
Who are the kind of people you spend the most time with? Jim Rohn once said:
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
Try to spend time with people who motivate and inspire you, who are positive and will stand by you, 100%.
If you don’t have any goals in life other people will create them for you. It’s not enough to just set goals you must take the necessary steps to make them a reality.
What do you want to achieve? What are the steps for getting there?
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll
When you know how to rely on yourself you will grow in confidence and self-worth. You will make great decisions, believe in yourself and trust you’re your own judgments. Other people matter in your life but you must also be able to rely on you.
Start by getting to know your values. What you stand for and what you believe in.
Your passion will invigorate you and give you life. It’s what gets you up in the morning and allows you to do what you love. What are your passions? How can you start getting into doing what you love? Give up on what you don’t like doing and get passions into gear!
If you don’t know where you are going, you can end up anywhere!
Create a compelling vision and practice daily to see beyond your struggles. Use positive thinking to help you stay on track and take action so you can see your vision come to life. Day by day you create your future make one that you love, one where you can look back and be proud of your story.
Instead of expecting the worst, expect that good things will happen to you. Being mindful about your perspective in life is what gives you results. A positive mindset can be a huge turnaround for your life circumstances allowing you to see things from an optimist’s point of view. Begin to start your ‘positive’ journey by changing the way you think. Try to direct your thoughts towards the outcome you want.
There is real power in positivity!
Diana is a beach lover, philosopher & Entrepreneur. She is all about helping you find purpose, authenticity & happiness, sanity which Is why she created The Personal Freedom Project. Subscribe to her Happy Triggers Guide, designed to help you find purpose and a plan for your life even if you don’t know where to start!
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