10 Principles to Organize Your Life (And Keep It That Way)
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How to Organize Your Life

10 principles for organizing your work, home, health, fitness, hobbies, finances, and more...

The Organize Your Life Framework

1. Develop habits and build a routine

2. Plan ahead

3. Embrace your natural inclinations

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Productivity Tip: Choose a productivity system that suits you – whether that’s Eat the Frog, Getting Things Done, or Pomodoro.

4. Consistency over perfection

5. Find balance

6. Prioritize appropriately

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Productivity Tip: Ensure you’re not confusing importance for urgency. Learn how to avoid the urgency trap with the Eisenhower Matrix productivity method.

7. Declutter and simplify

Organize your life by decluttering your physical, digital, and mental space

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Productivity Tip: Marie Kondo your to-do list! Clear out old items, organize your to-dos, and keep only the tasks that “spark joy”.

8. Measure your progress

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Productivity Tip: Try our Todoist GTD weekly review template to actively reflect on everything you did over the last 7 days.

9. Automate or outsource

Use a <a href="https://www.todoist.com/help/articles/use-zapier-with-todoist-rSW6tW">tool like Zapier to create automations</a> between your favourite apps

10. Experiment

Applying the Framework

Work

Organize Your Life at Work

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Additional Resources on How to Organize Your Life at Work - How to Make the Most of Your Workday (New York Times) - The Complete Guide to Deep Work (Todoist)

Home

Organize Your Life at Home

Set up a Todoist project with “Daily”, “Weekly” and “Monthly” chores

Share chores with your family or housemates

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Additional Resources on How to Organize Your Life at Home * How to Organize Your Family’s Tasks and Projects With Todoist (Todoist) * The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (Marie Kondo)

Health and Fitness

Organize Your Health and Fitness

Try <a href="https://www.todoist.com/templates/meal-planning">meal planning</a> so you'll always have healthy meals available

Try the <a href="https://www.todoist.com/templates/fitness">Todoist fitness template</a> to plan your physical activity

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Additional Resources on Organize Your Health and Fitness * The Last Conversation You’ll Ever Need to Have About Eating Right (Grub Street) * A Beginner's Guide to Meal Prep (Eating Well) * FoundMyFitness (Dr. Rhonda Patrick)

Finances

Organize Your Finances

Have a monthly <a href="https://www.todoist.com/templates/budgeting">review of your budget</a>

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Additional Resources on How to Organize Your Finances * I Will Teach You to Be Rich (Ramit Sethi) * Mr Money Mustache (Peter Adeney)

Relationships

Organize Your Social Life

Tips for making gathering easier

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Additional Resources on How to Organize Your Social Life * The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters (Priya Parker) * A “networking” case study: make friends, not connections (Sol Orwell)

Travel

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Download our Vacation Planning Todoist Template so you don’t forget a thing.

Organize Your Travel

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Additional Resources on How to Organize Your Travel * The 52 Places Traveler (New York Times)

Fadeke Adegbuyi

Fadeke is a writer and marketer. She's passionate about telling stories of better ways to live and work.

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