You’ve gotten your house nicely organized and you’ve developed habits to keep it that way. Good for you! One more thing is necessary for an organized life—learning to control how you use your time. It’s not hard, once you know how. Organized people understand the two secrets that make it easy and guarantee success. They focus on priorities and divvy up their time wisely to reach them. That means, you simply must:
• Say no to less-important, C-list priorities. We have so many opportunities and so many demands on our time in today’s busy world. That makes it important to practice saying no to the requests of other people and often to our own desires as well. We don’t have the time or the energy to do everything. That means we have to ignore what we may call our C list, in favor of giving our attention to what’s essential.
• Shout a resounding yes to a few, well- selected activities in your life—your A- list priorities. When the yes areas are determined, you can say no more easily to other areas, many of which may be excellent activities, but just are not right for you at this time.