The things you don't want to do

It’s fun to make new plans. In the beginning of the new year many of us feel optimistic and full of

energy. It feels like anything can be done. Then the reality comes in. It doesn’t feel so easy to make

the positive changes you have planned.

The mornings didn’t suddenly turn easier this year, and I wasn’t feeling more energetic in the

evenings than last year. Still I have tackled the difficult things and my never ending to do list.

There are things you could just leave them as they are. Who cares about emails? You read them and they stay nicely in the inbox. They will never quit to come. It’s the same with cleaning the house. The cleaning is never ending. But stopping cleaning would be crazy. Who wants to clean a house, that hasn’t been cleaned in a long time? I try to remind myself of being consistent.

My organized year started with going through my emails, pressing the delete key and cleaning the house. It’s amazing how many useless emails you can save. The question is, why they are saved and not deleted, because you don’t need them. Well, the answer is simple: you might need the information some day. Just might.

One interesting thing is the notifications different programs send to you. For example I got a notification last year from my Dropbox-account. It said something like this: your Dropbox-account is decreasing in October on a specific date. And it meant, that the account should be checked so that no photos would disappear. I did it, in the last minute.

The solution to the problem could be this:

• going through emails on a regular basis
• deleting the useless ones
• checking trash also
• deleting junk mail
• archiving emails and creating folders
• reading the notifications from different programs (Dropbox for example) 

Another useful thing, that I started doing, is keeping my calendar up to date. When I know about an event, I put it in my calendar. This sounds very simple too, but it isn’t. Because it’s easy to forget it. It has to do with the emails. You get an email, and there is something important, and you think about adding it to your calendar later. Later. Then you forget about it. And of course you can’t find it anymore, because the inbox is full with emails.

The lesson learned:

• add important events to your calendar as soon as possible
• also add important information about the events
• add reminders about things you have to do

I also did a weekly cleaning schedule for the house.

“It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.”-Tony Robbins