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Simplicity One Day at a Time offers 365 suggestions, tips, and creative ideas to help simplify, organize, and balance ones life. Ideas for the Everyday sets goals of becoming more organized and in control. Your Home and Your Family chapters affirm these important and high priority areas of life. Time for You includes ideas to help stay balanced and recognize ones passions. Your Workplace at Home or Away recognizes how the workplace has changed in the past decades and suggests ways to keep pace. Community and the Environment reminds us that to simplify is to be a good steward of all we possess or care for. Holidays, Hospitality, and Gift-Giving reinforces the ultimate reasons we give. The authors thoughts and memories relevant to each area and a collection of inspirational quotes, gathered over decades, are included with each chapter.
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I would like to travel light on this journey of life,
to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day
Madeleine LEngle
It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty and rest and living close to nature.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
| 1. | Enjoy these benefits of effective time management: |
- Satisfaction of being in control
- Sense of achievement
- Self-growth
- Higher self-esteem
- Greater concentration
- Increased results
- Time for personal goals
| 2. | Fifteen minutes each morning + fifteen minutes each afternoon or evening over the course of a year = twenty-two eight-hour days. What will you do with those extra days? |
| 3. | One new time-effective idea per week = fifty-two new techniques in one year. |
| 4. | Recognize your reasons for procrastinating: |
- Lack of focus I cant concentrate with everything thats going on.
- Over-commitment Ive signed my life away anyway. Ill never catch up.
- Indecision What if I make the wrong decision?
- Fear Im afraid Ill blow it. Then what will everyone think?
- Guilt I shouldnt spend time doing that for myself when the family needs me.
- Perfectionism I know Ill be unhappy with the result, so why bother?
| 5. | Use these tips to move from Procrastination to Accomplishment: |
- Share your goal with someone who will support and encourage you.
- Put in words exactly what your goal is.
- Write down the components of your goal and the steps to reach it.
- Plan ahead. Knowing what you will do the next day will save time and move you toward your goal.
- Reward yourself with each accomplishment, however small.
| 6. | Learn the difference between these two adjectives: |
- Urgent Short-term
- Important Long-term
| 7. | Adopt the Fire Prevention instead of the Fire Fighting philosophy. Its better to prevent a crisis with proper planning than fight the crisis when full-blown. |
| 8. | Understand the relationship between a goal and an objective. You may have a goal of becoming a gourmet French cook. Each objective moves you closer to the goal. Specific objectives might include taking a French cooking class, collecting recipes on French cuisine, and visiting French restaurants. |
| 9. | Ask yourself, What do I want to be doing one, three, five years from today? Take one step toward that goal today. Take another step tomorrow. Continue until you reach the goal. |
| 10. | Before you say YES, consider saying NO. And dont feel guilty. |
| 11. | One of these days means nothing in terms of setting a goal. A goal is a dream with a date attached to it. |
| 12. | Consider this: If you dont have time to do it right the first time, chances are you wont have time to fix it later. |
| 13. | Ask yourself, Can someone else do this? Am I doing it out of habit or out of necessity? Stop and evaluate a task. Is this the best way to do it? Can you minimize it? Can you divide it into parts? Can you delegate it? |
| 14. | Make a list periodically of all your commitments. Evaluate each one. Is your involvement still necessary and meaningful? Eliminate or modify where you can. |
| 15. | Ask yourself, What is the best use of my time right now? |
| 16. | Adopt a Lets Simplify lifestyle. If something isnt used, doesnt beautify, or cannot help someone, you may not need to hang on to it. |
| 17. | If the item has sentimental value, define sentimental. Perhaps it was a gift and although you no longer want it, you hesitate to toss it for fear of hurting the givers feelings. |
| 18. | Memorize Parkinsons Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. |
| 19. | Be bird-wise. Take advantage of your prime times. Larks function better in the morning. Owls are most effective during evening hours. Which are you? |
| 20. | Keep a Master List. Write down anything, small or large, that warrants your attention. Write the date beside each task or project as you enter it on the Master List. If too much time elapses without completing a project, you may wish to evaluate its importance. If you own any variety of planner and are not using it, this may be the perfect time to get started. |
| 21. | One part of your Master List could be repairs and replacements that need to be made at home. Start at the front door and work clockwise through your home. Then move out to include the car, garage, yard, and other property. |
| 22. | Work from a daily To Do list that includes tasks, appointments, projects, and items from your Master List. Writing down a specific task to be done at a certain time gives you freedom because you stay in control. Build in some extra time in case you are interrupted. |
| 23. | Mark the tasks on your To Do list as A, B, or C, giving the As the highest priority. Plan one day now and then to catch up on all the Cs. |
| 24. | Keep Reference Lists for things like favorite restaurant phone numbers, web sites you would like to explore, and books you would like to read. |
| 25. | Give yourself credit for what is working rather than lament what is not. |
| 26. | Designate a place to put something you use often during the day, such as your reading glasses and keys, then make sure you return the item to that place. |
| 27. | Set appointments with yourself on the calendar. |
| 28. | Maintain that calendar with large squares for writing appointments, tasks, and special events. Keep it in a central location for all to see. Various persons using the calendar might enter their own activities in separate colors. |
| 29. | Get the family to join in on projects. Make it a game with both responsibilities and rewards. Time the projects with an alarm clock or kitchen timer. Enjoy a pizza party when finished. |
| 30. | Use the Swiss Cheese Approach when tackling a major project, making little holes in it until the project is completed. |
| 31. | Use the Breakdown Approach and accomplish a major project in sections, breaking it into smaller tasks that lead to a series of successes and end in completion. |
| 32. | Eat lightly before or during a time of heavy mental activity. The digestion process drains energy from the mental process. When you are sedentary, your digestion is slower, extending the energy throughout your activity. |
| 33. | Use labor- and time-saving appliances and services if they help you achieve balance in your days. |
| 34. | Cluster similar tasks, such as phone calls and errands. |
| 35. | Barter when you can. Are you a computer guru who dislikes house cleaning? Would you prefer to bake someones birthday cake than do your own mending? Exchange services with friends and neighbors who have different preferences. The possibilities are endless. |
| 36. | Carry a street map of your city and county in the car. It can come in handy if you are having trouble finding what you are looking for. |
| 37. | Keep the top half of your gas tank full. A family member could suddenly become ill and need medical attention, or you might be called to the side of a loved one. |
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