Focusing your Energies: Tip #22 Set up Systems that Support You
We’re on day 22 of a thirty day series on focusing your efforts towards success.
The author of Getting Things Done, David Allen, encourages us to use systems that work *for* us.
Put it this way: we are the sum of all of our existing habits and ways of thinking: our system is getting us our current results.
If we want to change where we are, we must support that change by changing our systems.
This may mean the following:
In finance: Using the “envelope” system to keep track of financial freedom money, rent/mortgage, groceries, utilities, gas, fun money, education money, and emergency money.
In relationships: Keeping track of who we spend time with and dropping the 10% of people in our circle who are not supportive to our goals.
In health: Integrating new and better lifestyle choices into our daily routine. Walk the stairs instead of taking the elevator. Pack a lunch instead of choosing fried food. Exercise 45 minutes a day instead of watching television.
In the home: Using jars, folders, containers, and caddies to organize our stuff. Decluttering by giving away nonessential items. Having a monthly House Day where we maintain our house and care for our home environment.
When the systems that we start to put into place become habits (it takes over 15 times of doing something consistently to make it a habit), we become the sum of those new habits.
These next three months, set up a system that will support you this year in an area of your choice, and stick with it! You will be pleased with the results.
Next, every three months, add an additional system that supports a different area of your behavior. You’ll soon be thrilled with the productivity, prosperity, happiness and health in your daily experience.
Monica S. Flores is an author, educator, and speaker.
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