My main organisational issue is to get started / not procrastinate. I always have better things to do.

Oh, and I hate to have to make choices and take decisions because that means not choosing something and I’m afraid it’ll be the wrong choice. So any advice about those two topics are warmly welcome!!

Chloé from France.

Chloe, sometimes we procrastinate because the thing really shouldn’t even be on our to-do list. If that’s the case, let it go and be free. Maybe that’s why you say you always have better things to do

Otherwise, if it does support your lifestyle goals, then here’s how you can overcome procrastination:

• break up the project into small steps
• focus on just the very next action step, e.g. if you need to get a new job, don’t start thinking about what you’re going to wear to interviews….just yet. for now, decide what kind of job you want – that’s the first action step. Then update your CV (resume), etc, etc.
• what gets you motivated? If it’s accountability, then tell someone to hold you accountable.
• work with a timer and get it done

Bath, England, May 2008

About making decisions, I wrote about 3 steps to confident decision-making.

Have a read

How do you overcome procrastination?

P.S. here are tons more tips on overcoming procrastination.

The reason many of us have clutter is because we are indecisive.

1. We bring in a pile of mail, don’t want to decide what to throw away so we just put it somewhere to decide later.
What is that called? Clutter!

2. We come back from the shops with bags and bags of stuff. We haven’t thought about where all that stuff is going to go, so we just shove it in the back of our wardrobes where it becomes…clutter!

Let’s do one more – and it’s one of my favourite examples too!

3. You download emails. Some of them you can answer easily, so you do. You need to think about others, some are a bit difficult because you might have to say “no” and don’t want to be mean. You don’t know how to deal with those so you close the email and there it stays – electronic clutter!

Ouch!

Bet you didn’t realise how quickly all those moments of indecision piled up and left you a house and computer full of clutter!

My challenge to you is this:
1. Spend 15 minutes going around your house and make some of those tough decisions so you can eliminate the clutter!

2. Spend another 15 minutes working through your email inbox and exercise some discipline in making decisions.

Personally, if I have some tough decisions to make, I’ll leave emails for 24 hours.

But then I decide. I can always change my mind but a decision is better than none at all!

Let me know in the comments if you decide to take up the challenge!

I’m cheering you on.