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