How to get organized in as little as 2 hours a week… (Even if it’s not in your nature)

Your room and car are a mess.

You're trying to find the shirt you need for work before getting in the car, after you get in the car you realize you forgot your water bottle and you go back in the house for the third time. (Man this sucks)

There has to be a better way to live than this.

Every week it’s the same problem, eating away at you, eroding your confidence. if you can’t do this small thing right, why would you be able to do other big things right?

“It is surprising how much I can get done when I take enough time for planning, and it is perfectly amazing how little I get done without it.” - How I raised myself from failure to success selling

The big problem:

Your laundry isn't done. (Again)

Your car is a mess.

You don't have food ready for the week.

You forget things that you need before you drive to work (or School) and feel frustrated.

Your external disorganization is a reflection of your internal world (a disorganized mind).

Your lack of clarity and organization is costing you:

1. Being present (with family and friends)

2. thousands of dollars

3. your peace

What if you could have that back for just a few hours a week?

You tell yourself you don't know what you want. (because it's easier than the truth)

You're wrong.

You do know what you want. You just don't know how to get there (yet). You tell yourself (a lie) that you don't know what you want so you don't have to feel the pain of the gap. (Which is the distance between where you are and where you actually want to be)

You will move if the pain of where you are is greater than the pain of change.

It's kind of like arriving home, and finding a mosquito trying to bite me in my car. This potential pain caused me to go inside very quickly. Why?

Because the potential pain of staying is greater then the pain of leaving.

How painful is staying? (disorganized and unclear in your life)

You are doing things that are urgent all the time yet you:

• feel exhausted

• don't have time for what (you say) is most important to you.

You live this way for 6 reasons:

1. You don't want to live within the constraints of a schedule

2. You're afraid to be to structured

3. You're afraid of the being constrained from spontaneity

4. You've been late to things your whole life

5. You look busy to impress other people (who don’t actually care)

6. You've always figured things out in the moment. (rather than thinking, then acting with the plan you've set out for yourself)

It seems like you don't know what you want out of life. So how could you know what you want out of a single day or week?

Your problem is a lack of curiosity.

• How is it that you're late to almost everything?

• how is it that you forget 1-2 things every-time you drive somewhere?

• how is it that you're exhausted at the end of the day? (yet unclear on your priorities)

• If you can be consistent in this way, what if you could become consistent in the other way?

What this leads to is a feeling of regret.

wondering what if I had actually done some of the things I thought about doing when I was younger? What if you could have become all the things you thought about, but weren't willing to try. (because you were disorganized)

That this one skill, could have been the hinge to swing open a door to a totally different life.

But you failed to explore.

If you don't know what you want, any road will take you there. -Keith Kochner

How I became more organized (so that I could create a vision for my life)

Growing up I’ve always been bad with details. (ironic because detailing is my job now)

I can remember my dad's voice: "Details Daniel, Details matter" (often because I’d forget them)

This is probably the thing I feel I’m the worst at, yet am working each week to improve at organization and structure because I see the value of it.

Win the small things each week. Master the mundane each day, and you will make huge progress towards the life you long for.

Dazzle in the details, brilliant in the basics.

Create enough oxygen (space) for your life to catch fire. Everyone loves to watch someone who's life is ablaze.

POV:

you can work "all the time" and get nothing done.

Or

you can plan your work and be disciplined 4.5 days out of the week, and get a lot done.

you choose every week.

"Impossible is always a checklist. Do every item on your checklist today, do every item on your checklist tomorrow, and repeat. This is how clear goals become high, hard achievements, which become milestones on the way to massively transformative purposes." - The Art of the Impossible

What if you could consistently do the few things that really matter in your life? (instead of trying to do everything, and actually doing nothing)

This starts with creating healthy rhythms or systems that set you up for success.

It starts with having weekly necessities planned, so you don’t have to spend mental energy on small things.

It starts with knowing exactly what work is most important every day, and going to bed knowing: I did what mattered most. (satisfying)

the 12 week year explains this funnel, from long term goals, to how your daily activities effect them. And how to game-ify the process and add a process-control every week. (video explaining this concept linked at the end of this newsletter)

Where to start today: (How to think big and start small)

Have a Self organization day:

During this time you will:

1. Notice how this past week went

   1. What didn’t work (5 minutes)

   2. What worked? (5 minutes)

2. Schedule your priorities for this next week (Using the 12 week year as a guide)

3. Schedule times for all the chores/weekly things that allow you to be fully present in your business/work/relationships

these small things accomplished today help you become the person you want to become and have the life you want to have. Each thing is linked into your longer term goals. (which increases motivation)

This is cool Daniel, what does this look like in your life currently?

I'm glad you asked ;)

My self organization day Includes Scheduling the key priorites I’ve identified in my 12 week year each day:

1. Scheduling a one hour slot for 20 conversations about my detailing business each day.

2. Choose the Before and Afters I'm going to post on my stories. And decide on 3-5 reels or posts that educate my clients on the types of services I offer.

3. Create or refine one offer this week. (this week is around monthly plans and how to incentivize)

4. Scheduling these Key activities in my calendar for this next week. (this is the key step)

5. Refill and reorder chemicals and supplies once a week.

What it looks like for my Environmental health (aka Chores)

1. Grocery shopping (scheduling this at a low energy time)

2. Laundry (clothes and bedding)

3. Cleaning my own car

4. cleaning my room (5 things a day)

5. Cleaning bathrooms (one each week day)

6. vacuuming (once a week)

7. mowing grass/yardwork (every other week)

8. Cleaning the Kitchen (once a week)

Writing:

1. Choose a topic or outline for this weeks newsletter (in my self organization day)

2. Invest 30 minutes writing my newsletter (this) Monday through Thursday, Edit newsletter Friday and Saturday and post on Sunday

3. Write and post one tweet (from the last weeks newsletter every day)

Education:

1. Listen to 1 hour of an audio book or podcast every day.

2. read 10 pages of a book

Health:

1. Workout 3 times a week for 60 minutes.

2. No more than 2 back-to-back nights where I don't get 8 hours of sleep.

Time with Family and Friends:

1. Have time with close friends once a week (or call at least once a week)

2. Call one family member per week.

3. Monthly zoom with Family

4. Once a 12 week year visit family (LA or Florida)

Faith / Time with God

1. Read a proverb daily

2. Memorize Roman 8

3. 15 minutes prayer

Small group planning:

Meet to plan group each week: (either Sunday night or Tuesday night)

Why does this matter?

You have to get your head above water enough to where you don't feel like you're drowning. So do the small things, do the next right thing. For me this meant taking a few hours on Saturday morning to plan my week.

this can look like brain dumping onto paper when feeling overwhelmed.

It meant saying no to hanging out on a Sunday so I could clean my car and do laundry and clean the house. As you do these "small things" it frees up mental capacity to think about your long term goals. You begin thinking about the life you want to live. (that's the true value of this system)

These things may seem small in the moment, which they are. With time, you understand what you want in life, which then gives you a chance of creating it.

If you don't know what you want, any road will get you there.

With clarity on what you do want you can take a step. it will help you measure if you are actually taking steps towards the life you say you want. (removes the uncertainty if you can see your progress in black and white)

All these ideas state that you have to start with vision. I disagree. I think you need to start with small actions, and as you take action it creates the space for you to have vision, but if simple things are not getting done, you may not have the mental space to dream and create a vision.

The proper planning and execution of hours creates a sense of peace.

knowing that you’re doing the things that are within your control to create the outcomes that you say you want in your life.

It's easy to have big goals without the action to back it up. And you’re tired of living this way. you’ve loved thinking big without the pain of working at that level. now It's time for you to either increase your activity or decrease your goals. because you can do a lot, but you can't do everything. (JOMO)

We either Discipline ourselves or are disciplined by the world. - How I reaised my self from failure to success selling

What you do on a daily and weekly will be ordered. The question to ask yourself:

Will you dictate the answer or will your job your school or external forces do this.

Even when you have to show up to work by 8 you get to dictate if you wake up at 5 and read or workout or write.

There may be some hours in your day that are cut out depending on your career and life stage. But even around those things there is a level of freedom in HOW you choose to spend those hours.

If you can become clear and what is important to you, and measure your progress on a weekly basis, that gives you 13 opportunities in a "year" to grow and make minor adjustments. but if you don't reflect and look at what you've actually done then your in the exact same spot which you were a year ago, just a year older.

"You can give love to your family and engage your life's work, if you discipline yourself to act on your deepest desires with priority." - The way of the superior man

conclusion:

You may be saying: I need to find clarity so that I can then have the motivation to start being organized."

Wrong.

Do the obvious things right in front of you. You will not do all of this today, but you can vacuum the inside of your car. You can pick up 5 things in you room today. Start with the small things that create the internal space to see what you want out of life.

What I'm recommending to you and what I've done is taken the action (even when I didn't want to) and that small action over time gave me the space to think and clarify what I want in my life.

• Do the laundry

• Read a page

• Clean your bathroom

• Create a beautiful environment

This is the first step to creating the beautiful life you dream in your mind. But if you can't keep your room clean, how are you going to keep your dream clean? (they both take constant maintenance)

CTA: What Do I do now?

1. Have a weekly Self organization day where you:

   1. Notice how this past week went:

      1. what didn’t work (5 minutes)

      2. What worked? (5 minutes)

   2. Schedule your work for the week:

   3. Get the chores that set you up for success that week done (Laundry, cleaning, car detailed, Ect)

   4. Review this last week of the 12 week year and measure if you hit at least 85% of your goal.

   5. Brain dump all the extra things that you'd like to do, and prioritize all those things and do what you said was most important first.

2. Clean up your room, (even if it's cleaning up 5 things right now, because that's all you have time for)

3. Create a rhythm/schedule to maintain this cleanliness. keep things in order for the next 30 days. (it'll create mental space, the ultimate resource)

4. Schedule your priorities for this next week (Using the 12 week year)

5. Schedule times for all the chores/weekly things that allow you to be fully present in your job/work/relationships

6. Read the Art of the Impossible, 7 habits of highly effective people and the 12 week year (they will give you the structure to find your purpose, and work towards it every day in a way that is measurable)

7. Find people who want to grow like you do either online (I'll link a discord server that does a weekly accountability check in on Mondays) or in person. This isn't meant to be done alone, and finding your people is important.

8. Start your first 12 week year. (Build out the long term vision and break it all the way down into the daily activities and measure your results)

P.S. live in the sacramento area and finding cleaning your car is lowest on the list but still need it done?

Schedule a detail for your vehicle here: https://calendly.com/danielbaarns/detail-appointment

Free Resources:

12 week year summary video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wQhRRWPqFE&feature=youtu.be

Recommended reading:

How I raised myself from failure to success through sellin