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Trying to not be late in the mornings......

This was a question posted recently and featured in my newsletter (subscribe to it via www.organisemyhouse.co.uk) - Hope the advice helps!

I am always late getting out of the house in the morning, if its not the children losing things its me - how can i get under control?

• The best thing to do in any part of your day that has the same sort of routine in it is

Getting ANYWHERE on time!

We've all been there - the best intentions in the world and yet, somehow, here we are again, sitting in traffic in our car, sat nav telling us its 15 mins to go to get to the meeting - and we are already 5 mins late. HOW HAS THIS HAPPENED AGAIN!

There are a few ways that you can try that will help with this in future - see which work for you and let me know how it goes!

What about the NICE TO DO's?

Most of us have a TO DO list that gets increasingly long, more overwhelming, and when we have a look to see what can be done next, its just too much to make a decision about so we end up doing nothing. Sound familiar?

What I suggest (and use myself to great effect) is to have

When is a holiday NOT a holiday?

Myself and my family have just been away for a long weekend - having picked the sunniest and hottest october weekend on record (temp in the late 20's!). While we were away it struck me that although this was a great holiday, and felt very relaxing, it wasn't a "much needed" one, like so many people feel when they go away.

Now this isn't because we are away every few weeks - in fact this was our first break since January! - so it got me thinking about why we don't really feel we desperately need a holiday and why we aren't a very holiday-oriented family at all.

TO DO lists - Why they are so needed?

I sat here this morning with my brain on overdrive, going through all the many things I have to get done. Some of these things are urgent, some are not, but its easy for my mind to get overloaded and then I end up doing nothing but think about the best way forward. Good time management? I think not! Most of us have busy lives, with work, social, leisure, family, friends, hobbies and much more, taking it out of you each week. To remember everything that needs doing is a feat in itself, and having ad hoc lists won't help anyone as they are likely to get lost and things missed anyway. Whats needed is a fail safe plan to get things done in a timely and organised and STRESS FREE way.

The absolute best thing I can suggest for you is to have somewhere to place everything that you have to do, so that you can really prioritise and scrutinise it without it taking over you life. If you continue down the path of doing what needs to be done at that specific time, then you may never make it towards your goals, and will feel that you are working hard for nothing. Thats where a MASTER TO DO list comes in.

Tricks that Organised People Use

How can some people get so much more done in a day than others? Whats their secret and how can you be more like them?

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• JUST DO IT – Stop procrastinating about how much you need to get done, and get started. The mere time it takes to worry and moan could have been used much more wisely and you could have taken something off the TO DO list easily. Some of the most productive people swear by doing what hurts most, first. Getting the worst of your days tasks over and done with can really give you a lift, and you may find that you can get loads more done than you thought, and the opposite is true if you are leaving the worst jobs til last, your subconscious will try and delay getting to these tasks, and as a result you will go slower, feel slower, and feel very demotivated.