I've been slacking. And realised what my problem is.
I didn't have super efficient access to my 'consistency containers'.
Once you understand this concept, you'll be able to use everything else I've given you via this site and reach yet another higher level of [tag]efficiency[/tag], [tag]personal organization[/tag], [tag]productivity[/tag], [tag]self-clarity[/tag], yada yada you get the picture, let's dig right into this now:
Consistency Containers
Consistency - the disciplined practice of persistent action
Containers - places to keep stuff
Consistency Containers as such as places that you keep stuff to help you remain persistent and disciplined.
Obviously we're talking about stuff that help you accomplish what you want to accomplish. [tag]Organized Living[/tag], productivity, yada yada yada.
And what about Web 3.0 Efficiency?
Well, you can visit [tag]web 3.0[/tag] to find out more on that. Essentially web 3.0 is the evolution beginning to happen on the Internet where you get to choose the exact contact that shows up on your screen when you're at your computer, and browsing the internet.
Of course, efficiency suggests the combined best of all worlds. Organization, [tag]time management[/tag], productivity, clarity, etc.
So I've been slacking whilst my time and attention has been on a few set large projects that I've been cranking out. So I've lost a little discipline on the bigger picture of my life, projects, etc.
That's ok, life goes in cycles. We're not robots. I'm happy with what I'm spending my time on. It's just that it's time again to revamp, rejig, and generally bring together my overall life management and personal organization systems again.
So here's what I'm playing with right now.
My main consistency containers for web 3.0 efficiency
- Mind-maps
- Folderarchy
- Bookmarking
- Bookcase
Mind-Mapping
(still grateful to my dad for introducing me to this concept before there was computer software for it when I was 11 years old)
I use mind-mapping software and have several hundred mind-maps all stored on my computer, which I use daily to organize my projects and tasks that I do on computer, and where I store my big visions for my lifestyle and future dreams.
It works well for me. You can check out a free service online that I like called http://mindomo.com/ which allows you to make 7 priate mind-maps in your free account. You can upgrade if you like it, or contact me if you're interested in buying software and I'll tell you what I'm using at that time.
Mind-Mapping is not just about 'brain storming', it's about organizing your ideas.
Folderarchy
I assume that you use Folderarchy given that you're reading this article at my site. If not, find out right now how to organize your life using a simple system I discovered years ago that does away with complicated personal productivity software and allows a life-long growing way to store, find, organize, etc all your data, information, interests, responsibilities, etc, needing no new software whatsoever.
Bookmarking
Visit my page on personal productivity with bookmarking to find out about how I use this fantastic tool that does away with normal 'favorites' in your internet browser to allow you awesome control and management of websites that you like to use.
I recommend Gmail. I really really recommend Gmail. It allows tagging, great search function, etc.
Bookcase
This one is not on the computer. It's my bookcase in my room that holds the books I want at hand at present. It's another important consistency container for my efficiency as I read a lot and want these books at easy reach.
Now comes practicing the art of Efficiency
I have the list of these 5 consistency containers on the main mind-map I open up to plan my day. My central mind-map is called 'My Matrix'.
It's important enough to me that it's easy to open it up at one click of a button on my computer. Basic habit.
And that one activity puts infront of my face a list of my consistency containers, along with other project management parts on my mind-map.
So as soon as I see that list of consistency containers I am immediately aware and mindful of them. I can then use that mindfulness to help decide what to do.
Does that make sense? It's both so simple and so powerful, just as things should be.
So using that list of 5 main places I store ideas or things at that I want to act on regularly, I can visit my bookmarking page, check my emails, browse my Folderarchy, use my mind-maps, and pull a book of my bookcase.
Use the idea of having 'consistency containers' in your own personal productivity time management system and I guarantee it will pay off in spades.
If you feel overwhelmed by how much you have got to do, or do not feel in control, then a major cause will be because you do not have well established consistency containers.
Perhaps you'll add an 'in basket' to your list of consistency containers. Just make sure you have a functional few places that you actively store stuff you want to access on a regular basis, make the list, put the list somewhere prominant so that you refer to it regularly, and you'll easily lower overwhelm and increase efficiency.
Have a great day
Is an organized lifestyle something you can get carried away with?
Well I'd say yes in the sense that I revealed in my 2006 breakthrough at How To Get Organized Now. But Lana is talking about a different quality of understanding.
I'd like to share with you what I shared with Lana. So first, here's what she emailed:
NathanI simply have to respond to this email, even at this stage.I am amazed at the power projected forth from your words. They were a welcome relief to the regular conversation we have all come to expect in our routine lives.I just had to say that……………..it felt like it does when you come home after a long and tiresome adventure……I know I know I am getting carried away but had to say it…..Thanks for the delivery…………….EnjoyedLana S
Thank you for being here Lana!
The email Lana is referring to is part of the Free report that you can get at Life Direction Road Map web site.
Howdy, I've found this neat little web site that allows you to leave me voice or video messages that I can then download and put on my sites (or keep private if it's a private message).
In the spirit of Web 2.0 it's a great way for us to share, and I'll edit and add parts of the message you send me to the web site so others can here your comments or questions.
I'll have my Professional Organizer hat on so don't hold back with any questions you want answered about organized living, dealing with clutter, time management techniques, or any area of self-clarity you are after.
So click on over to leave me a voice or video message with questions or comments that you have on any of the stages of organized living.
And I'll reply to you by email.
Nathan Shaw
Organized Living World
You know full well you can never really get organized
As soon as you use the kitchen you've got a mess.
Getting organized is an old fashioned idea that only last year did I break free of, and I've been teaching 'how to get organized' for years.
The trick. The key. The secret. Is something else.? I've revealed all in my free report for how to get organized now using 7 simple steps.
How boring and pointless would a life be spent trying to get organized.
Live your life fully with something other than getting organized.? You can [tag-tec]organize[/tag-tec] as much as is worth doing, quickly, and then live your life to the max.? Getting things done can be far easier than struggling to be organized all the time.
My Free report reveals why Einstein had the secret:? How to get organized now with 7 simple steps, Free report. Enjoy!
Nathan Shaw
Organized Living World
3 Elements Of The Ideal Time Management Skill Set
- Time Managing for the Shorter-Term
- Time Balancing (balance short term with long-term)
- Time Planning for the Longer-Term
Time Managing is what you need to do to juggle the short term (immediate stress reduction). When things in the near future are comfortably controlled by time managing, then Time Planning becomes possible.
Time Balancing is what links managing with planning.
3 Steps For Time Balancing
Step 1: Managing Short-Term Time
(plugging in the holes)
It's no shame to be in the position of feeling like you're struggling to bucket out water (tasks) from your boat (schedule/to-do list) that's filling up fast from a dozen holes (uncontrolled areas of time management).
Until now there's been two approaches to time management.
- Trying outdated industrial revolution type techniques like the 3 above (its like using the sponge of the seat to plug up the holes, it doesn't hold long?)
- Trying to wing it (its like bucketing out water of a sinking boat hoping it will get you to the shore before it sinks).
We can very easily and quickly manage the short-term by writing down your current responsibilities in a clear-cut way to free you up enough for Time Balancing.
First, we will put a very rapid stop to the major leaks of lost time that you are experiencing right now.
The TIME-Lattice Time Management System begins by taking you through a few exercises and demonstrations about how much time you've got for your life. It even discusses the limited time frame of your life expectancy.
You'll also find out what the average life-span of a Japanese woman has got to do with your time management?
Step 2: Time Balancing
(building a better boat)
Time Balancing allows you to 'replace' your leaky time management boat for a brand spanking new one.
Many trainers will start you off by having to immediately deal with all the holes in your boat. Sure they might supply the putty, but it's messy and not necessary.
The new Time Management System gives you a new boat, a new vehicle, a new engine.
But we'll build it alongside the way you do things now, so you only need to actually change the way you manage your life once you see the new system is in place and ready for 'smooth sailing'.
Step 3: Time Planning
(sailing into the sunset)
Time Management is not just about techniques for dealing with what's going on in your life right now. Again that's like bucketing out water just so you can stay afloat.
When things are balanced clearly in your new time management skill is like a new vehicle that gets you to places faster so free's up enough 'free' time that you begin to do things now that you thought you'd get to later, if it all.
The TIME-Lattice Time Management System comes in 4 easily manageable parts. I want to make it easy as pie for you to benefit from the system, so dividing it into 4 parts has had the best success amongst other TIME-Lattice users.
See a Free report on the new time management system paradigm.
Nathan Shaw
Organized Living World
My vision for the growth of organized living and how to balance your lifestyle
I want you to do this, and I promise to make it worth your while…
You want success. You want it in whatever form is personal to you. Everyone wants their own vision and version of success.
And I know the secret. The secret of how to have your own personal success.
And I am hell-bent on giving you every facet of that secret.
And it won't come cheap. It won't be $7. It won't be the $100 or so that would get you every publicly available product I have right now for organized living. No. It will cost more. It will cost both more money, and more time, and more commitment.
Remember. Everything about your own idea of success comes from what? From ACCOMPLISHING that success. And how do you do that? By being organized enough, EFFICIENT enough, strategic enough, to balance everything so as to make it all happen in good time.
And that's what I'm here to help you with. But we are all limited by time.
So trust me on this: My products are being sold for absolute monkey nuts compared to the decade + of crunching together thousands of bucks worth of information I've gone through along with hundreds of hours of my time.
Each product is incomplete on it's own. You don't bake a cake with only egg and water. You don't build a business with only a product and a web site. You don't have romance with only a date and a restaurant. You need the total picture. The spark, the flame, the marketing, the skills, the baking powder…
The 5 Stages of [tag]Organized Living[/tag] come to you via 5 ranges of products I have developed.
Which one do you need? They are different products. They focus on one of the 5 areas of organized living. So which do you think you need? Only one of them? You'll choose one to start with, and then progress with them all.
And don't dilly dally either. Get them. Print them. Use them. Write the answers. Your answers. And read every one of the testimonials that I've re-printed. Perhaps you feel hopeful but not optimistic about such great results for you personally.
Here's the thing: I guarantee that you will achieve those successes. How do I know? Because I know the secret that makes my work darned good. I also know the ongoing changes that happen for my customers that pursue with full-tilt boogy the application of my techniques.
All I need from you is communication. Everyone who buys my products gets ongoing email access to me FREE so that together we find the exact nuances to fit my 5 products to your exact style and life. If it doesn't work out, you get all your money back, and no hard feelings either.
Can you find my techniques elsewhere? No. Why? Because I made them up. How? Yes of course via the work that has gone before me. [tag]Neo-Tech[/tag]. [tag]David Allen[/tag]. Brian Tracy. Napoleon Hill. Etc.
Standing on the shoulders of giants, we move forwards. We progress.
Has it all been done before? No way, times change, technologies advance, human knowledge doubles something like every year!
And as my marketing grows so will my prices. They won't go down. They will go up. Get the stuff now and you'll have free updates. Besides the money, you will have greater personal success, clarity, emotional satisfaction, and much, much more.
Which product should you start with? Well, I'd take them in order.
- Get the 7 Power Steps of How to [tag]get organized[/tag] now.
- Then take the Life Direction and Career Development Road Map Workshops.
- Then Organize Your Life with Folderarchy.
- Then apply the powerful Time Management System Lattice.
- After all that get the 9 Secret Principles of mind power.
And then stay tuned for the 10 Mind Controllers that I will also make available this year which I'm working on now.
The products take you on a journey of self-discovery, clarity, and hard-nose, nitty gritty business-like thinking skills that will be with you forever.
It's not popular mainstream stuff either. Here's a top secret in the world of 'personal develpment gurus'. People buy if you make them feel good. I don't just want to make you feel good by getting my products. I want to seriously effect every area of your life. And that requires a different style of writing, of product development, etc. Do you know most people buy Tony Robbins tapes and never even remove the plastic cover on the box?
Here's why my stuff is different:
Most people who try to improve themselves focus on candy floss personal development gurus. However, there are TWO sides to the self-improvement coin.
- One of them is self-clarity.
- The other is personal organization.
People fail to balance these two areas, and therefore never really get very far with either area.
Typically you're into business stuff and go for personal productivity / time management / project management information.
Or you're into 'life' and go with the candy floss personal development gurus.
I've extracted lots of good points from both sides of the coin and deliver it together which creates an effect greater than the sum of the parts.
You and I have something special available.
Organized Living World feature reports and products for the 5 Stages of Organized Living.
So go to the About Us page and press on with all your might into the field of lifestyle management and new ways of efficient living and success.
So now you know what I want you to do and promise to make worth your while.
Get access to all my products. Let me help you cut through the personal development crap. Past the clutter problems both inside your home and inside your mind. And let me help you raise the bar on how to live an exhilarating lifestyle.
The 10 Mind Controllers are coming soon. And to be ready for them, go through the currently available Organized Living World products via the About Us page.
Let's journey together…
Nathan Shaw
Organized Living World
Take a breather and watch another stunning simple video message about the value of your time, helping you stay mindful of the preciusness of life, the opportunity for success, suggesting the wonder of organized living.
Enjoy it..
Nathan Shaw
Organized Living World
Anyone going through this wondering what on earth it has to do with organized living, well it has to do with the 6th Stage of organized living. More will be revealed soon… For now, enjoy the drama.
It has to do with the way Web 2.0 is about to revolutionize America and the world.
Compilation of YouTube videos regarding Organized Living, Politics and Ron Paul
Video 1:
The story begins with…
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Video 2:
Detective Speach
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Video 3
"words will always hold there power"
"something is terribly wrong with this country isn't it?"
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Video 4
Throughout History…
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Video 5
Here's how the story ends up until 2007
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My eternal hero, the late Dr Frank R Wallace – Discoverer of Neo-Tech.
And it doesn't have to go on this way…
Video 6
Like warrior poets, to win out Freedom.
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Video 7
What Can Ron Paul Become?
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Video 8
The Collapse of Government
If you are inspired to watch the film V for Vendetta by watching the videos above, then do not watch this next one as it is a spoiler and will show you too much. So skip this video, carry on with the others, and go and watch V for Vendetta.
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Video 9
And then there's 'Hillary'
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Video 10
"We are not afraid"
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Video 11
Ladies and gentlemen, we have some work to do…
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But it is not with guns and fists. It is with our words.
Video 12
Restore the Republic
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Video 13
That we speak to others. That we write on the net. That we say to our very selves…
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Is there any question about the message and meaning of me putting this post together?
In what way do you see it as pointing us to 'Stage 6' of Organized Living?
Please add your comments to this post.
Nathan Shaw
The computer is on, an article is open about time management rocks and buckets…
… I need to look after my health (an important rock), so I want to eat (a pebble/project) so I'll rush to the kitchen to chop some salad, steam some potato's, and whatever else (sand/task).
Whilst doing that I might be thinking of my article, or I may listen to an audio file whilst in the kitchen (and therefore fit more tasks into the same time period). Sometimes I'll even get into some pushups on the kitchen floor.
Or indeed I may use the time for personal quiet time and let my brain space out and enjoy the chopping, bubbling, and sizzling.
Then once that's all cooking away smoothly, back to my office I rush and re-focus at the computer. (A fast pace obviously adds tremendous intensity to the day, making you more emotionally compelled towards success, as well as more efficient.)
You could say that eating is more important than writing an article. So you see I do not prioritize or schedule to level of so called 'importance'. I do it all, and I do it by breaking down the hierarchy of 'size', and selecting tasks by convenience. Anything 'urgent' will naturally show itself when your project and task lists are organized properly.
When you have life prioritized and organized this way, you can very easily decide what to do next simply by looking at your project list and task list depending on where you are.
If you scheduled these tasks to time, you'd do dinner at '6pm', write the article at '7pm', and listen to an audio at what, '9pm'? It's obviously not efficient even if it worked out that way (which it rarely does right?). Of course we shouldn't schedule tasks to time. It's a ridiculous technique. It's much more natural to do a small selection of things in one pocket of time chosen by convenience as I demonstrated above. Well now through the new Time management System Lattice that's exactly what you'll have. A natural time management skill.
So the bottom line?
Don't prioritize by level of importance. It's all important. Instead, schedule according 1st to size, then to convenience.
Then you'll find that all of the ?little things' that used to get in your way, actually weave into the ?bigger' things, and then everything gets done, your level of self-satisfaction jumps through the roof, and you leave your peers behind in the dust, unless you share all this with them of course.
I hope I've freed you from some unnatural restrictions on using time.
And these days I almost never burn my cooking.
Ooo speaking of which?.
Nathan Shaw
Organized Living World
Do you have to neglect certain areas of life because other things are ?more important'?
Should you list priorities by 1 to 10 and just focus on number 1 until it's done and then move on to number 2?
You would never get round to things like cutting the grass, exercising regularly, filing papers, reading your kids night time stories.
So Let's Try Combining Importance with Urgency
If it's Saturday afternoon, and Sally's appointment with tutor is 4pm, then that's an urgent priority. So you can read your memo after taking Sally. But what about your hair cut? At what point do you consider that 'urgent'? When it's long? Or when it's 'too' long? Or when the wife nags, or the boss frowns?
How do you really prioritize between reading a memo and taking Sally to her tutor and getting your hair cut? Should you try to prioritize by urgency?
Taking Sally to her Tutor lesson is not as important as reading and responding to that Memo in your briefcase by Monday morning, plus it's not till tomorrow afternoon anyway. So on Friday the memo is urgently important at an A level, and Sally's tutor is only urgently important with a B level.
The wife made fun of your hair again today so you'll cross off the hair cut from the C priority list and put it on the A priority list. You can read the memo tomorrow (friday) with enough time left while the shops are open, and in time to get back to take the Wife out, so you decide the hair cut is urgent, and should move to priority level A.
Along comes Saturday afternoon, and Sally's tutorship now gets crossed off the B list and put on the A list because it's Saturday, and you've got Memo and Sally's Tutorship on the A list.
Is prioritizing by importance really going to be a long-term useful technique for [tag]time management[/tag]?
Of course not.? The TIME-Lattice Time Management System Report reveals the full story, and what to do about it..
Nathan Shaw
Organized Living World
