Six Ways to Minimise Mental Chatter & Organise Your Thinking
How does the constant internal chatter in your head reflect physical environment and life?
What you experience as your life is a direct result of your thoughts. If you have chaotic and cluttered thoughts you will have a chaotic and cluttered environment and life. This is why personal productivity and organisation must be addressed from the outside in AND the inside out… This is The Zen of Organisation.
6 ways to minimise mental chatter and organised your thinking
1 – GOALS
Regularly clarify your goals. Ensure they are meaningful, achievable and broken down into milestones. Have them visible as a reminder so your daily decisions are aligned with achieving those goals.
2 – PRIORITORISE & PLAN
Re-prioritorise and plan daily aligned with your goals, to ensure that your time, energy and resources are channeled proportionately to those priorities.
3 – CAPTURING AND MANAGING THOUGHTS AND ‘TO DO’S’
Review how you manage your lists and notes so it is streamlined. Create a central point to consolidate lists and notes into daily, for example in Microsoft Outlook or a paper diary. Consider using a voice recorder to capture ideas when you are driving and keep a note pad and pen by the bed so you can download the mental chatter before you go to sleep.
4 – MANAGE PROJECTS
Write a list off all the projects you have on the go or would like to begin, and priorities them into categories such as ‘current’ and ‘parked’. Visit the list regularly and decide how you can move each project forward or eliminate the project all together as your priorities change.
5 – PEACE OF MIND
With honest self reflection make a list of any transgressions, miscommunications or areas you feel uncomfortable about and go back and clean them up.
6 – MAINTAIN BALANCE MIND, BODY AND SOUL
Maintain a discipline that quietens the mind, strengthens the body and increases energy such as yoga, exercise or meditation.
7 – MAINTAIN A STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE
Schedule in regular time to step back from the day to day to get a strategic perspective on your progress. This can be as simple as taking yourself out for a coffee with your journal or a road trip to the beach on the weekend.
