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I Can’t Keep Track

If disorganization is making you feel scattered and frustrated, take steps to help yourself!  First, organize your belongings. Try to keep your stuff where it belongs so that you feel “arranged” at all times.  Now, continue with these steps:

Clarify your priorities:  What is important to you?

Objectives: Within those priority groups, such as school, sports and job, what needs to be achieved?

Planning: How can you best accomplish those objectives? Identify what you need to do, how you will do it and the timeline required to complete it.

Example: Mark has had poor grades on his last two math tests because by the time he left basketball practice and worked his 5 hour shift at the coffee shop, he was too tired to study.

Priority: School
Objective: Improve math test results
Planning: Write math test in calendar or add to phone app. Talk to basketball coach and pre-arrange for missing practice or leaving early when a work shift is also on the same pre-test night. Take math to work to study on dinner break. Consider asking for one hour less on that shift.

Because Mark organized his belongings and his plan, he was able to grab his math work on the way out the door, study in the locker room for a half hour and join basketball practice afterward and study on his dinner break at work. He added in a quick review during his lunch hour the next day too, because math was an afternoon class.  All of this improved his grade! Objective achieved.

Figure out what you want to do, when you are going to do it and implement the plan. You will have much less stress and create helpful habits for life.