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Ep. 283: How To Organize Your Life

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Organizing Your Life Outside of Work

✨Key takeaways:

  • Start with discipline, then vision, to achieve a deeper life.
  • Take control of your life by organizing it.
  • Simple system for life organization: calendar, file storage, and mail sorter.

Organize your life to gain control of time and obligations. This control helps enact future plans stemming from a clearer vision for life. By confronting your schedule, you gain an objective view of your time expenditure, enabling better decisions about activities like phone usage or social outings. Implementation steps:

  1. Calendar: Use for scheduling and time management.
  2. File storage:
  • Physical: Filing cabinet for paper documents.
  • Digital: System for organizing digital files.
  1. Mail sorter: A system for processing incoming mail efficiently.
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