CHRISTINE BECKWITH
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Managing & Organizing The Notifications In Your Head How to journal your way to mental freedom in 10 easy steps BY CHRISTINE BECKWITH | CONTRIBUTING WRITER, NATIONAL MORTGAGE PROFESSIONAL
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could tell endless stories about my growth over three decades in handling high stress levels and multitasking. For the better part of the past two decades, I have been a senior sales executive, a business owner, a fundraiser and a health enthusiast. I work in a high demand, fast paced, all stakes deadline environment, driven on constantly assessed metrics and results, while managing a home, traveling for work, raising a child and trying to be a healthy professional. So, I have mastered the art of compartmentalizing it all. I would love to say I did this through personal insight but the truth is I did it through professional training. Training that taught me how to off-board the clutter and chaos and make organization out of all of it. Training that taught me how to shut off the work brain and turn on the home brain at the flip of a switch. Then finally
experience allowed me to put it all into a simple system I have shared with hundreds of other people who are equally as hectic in their own busy lives. I hope it helps you as well. Once I learned the “Ten Tips for Professional & Personal Organization” that I have written below, my life, which I felt I had been chasing, suddenly changed and I was in complete control. I have been teaching these tips to professionals for two decades and it is one of my most raved about classes. So here goes, enjoy! First, did you know that every single thing you need to do is swirling around in your head and because these things are outstanding things due, that your brain or as I call it, your human computer, will keep sending you memory messages? They remind you that these things must be done. So, the simple act of writing things down will off-board or shut down the reminder. Almost like clicking “Dismiss” on your computer pop-up reminders under activities.
So, starting a working journal is a straightforward way to clean up all your repetitive thoughts and clear your mind. When you do this, your level of creativity, ability to think, ability to digest reading, to absorb meeting materials and even clearly learn class education is at a far higher and more receptive level than you would be left with otherwise with all that chaos happening in your brain. Furthermore, what is that chaos doing to your stress levels? To the output of great work results? What is the price you are paying for this level of overwhelming thinking? Doing the working journal daily can physically change your entire outlook on the quality and happiness of your work and your personal life. You can be a more attentive partner and spouse, parent and coach. Simply put, organizing thoughts and offboarding these thoughts can lead to a healthier lifestyle, one you control and one that gets amazing results.
“This seems like such a simple process, too simple, stupid simple. But it’s harder than you think to create these organizational habits.”
