Easy Ways to Get Your Life Together

While no one has it all together all the time, to make your life feel more together more often, there are things you can do.

Take Control over What You Can

When life feels stressful or out of your control, the best thing to do is to take back the control of the things you feel you don't have control over.

Even when what's happening in your life feel out of control, there are always some things within your control.

You can learn some strategies that help you feel like you are more together, more of the time. It all comes down to creating a solid foundation in your life. Making life easier to navigate without always feeling totally out of control or like everything is falling apart.

How to Get Your Life Together

If you've ever found yourself wondering how to get your life together, here are some strategy tips to help:

Do a Life Audit

Firstly, assess what is and what isn't working right now. Look for pain points in your days and your life right now. Things that feel stressful and aren't working or just feel off. You can't take steps to fix things or change things until you know exactly what needs changing.

Assess your home life, work life, finances, relationships (romantic, family and friendships), personal health and self-care, personal growth, recreation and hobbies.

Track your time for a week. It can be an eye-opener to see how you are spending your time. Notice how you are actually spending your time. Does it align with how you want to be spending it?

Look For the Root Cause

Once you have done your audit and identified as many pain points as you can and then try to go a little deeper. Identify the pain points and the root that is causing them.

If you feel like your house is always a mess and you can never keep up, that is a pain point. The root cause might be you have too much stuff, making it hard to keep your house tidy and manage all that stuff.

If financial worries are a pain point you identify, one root cause might be your spending patterns. You might need to think about stopping impulse spending.

If you feel like you never have enough time for friendships, the root cause could be a tendency to overcommit yourself and take on too many obligations and commitments.

Set Clear Goals

After you have finished your life audit, the next step is to take control over what you can and set clear goals.

Even when you can't completely change or control something, there will be still parts within your control. Take action and start brainstorming ways you can make some of the pain points you identified a little less painful. Focus on changing the things you can.

Learn to stop reacting to the pain points in your life. Start being proactive instead. Look for ways to solve problems, reduce pain points or find ways to better manage the stress until a bigger change is possible.

Create a clear vision for how you want each area of your life you identified in your life audit to look, feel and flow. Especially the parts that aren't working right now. Get clear about what it would be like if they were working. Bring that vision to life.

Set Specific Goals

Set specific goals, with clear, actionable steps. Detail exactly what you'd need to do to reach your goal. Break down big goals into smaller one.

Setting a goal to get your finances in order is great, but it doesn't make it clear what you need to do to make it happen.

Break it down into small, specific steps to take to get there. Track spending, take a month long no-spend challenge, create a monthly spending plan, set up weekly financial reviews.

Tracking the progress, you are making helps keep you motivated and inspired.

Slow and Steady Progress

Slow and steady progress is the best way for most people to create lasting, sustainable change. Focus on one goal at a time to avoid overwhelming or burning yourself out.

Don't get to excited and try to make dramatic changes all at once. Often, big dramatic changes isn't sustainable and doesn't last long. Make slow and steady progress.

Reduce Mental Clutter

One of the biggest reasons life can feel chaotic and stressful is because of mental clutter. A great place to start getting your life together is to reduce the mental clutter you are carrying.

Brain Dump

Too reduce mental clutter, the best way is to write everything down that is swirling around in your head, onto paper.

All these things in your head are taking mental space and energy from you. A brain dump gives you the chance to get them out of your head so you can stop carrying them around with you.

Doing a brain dump also gives a place to start. Once it's all out of your head, you can look at what needs to be done and needs attention. Make a plan for when and how you will tackle it.

You will find that there are some things that you can eliminate completely. You realize that you don't need to keep carrying them or doing anything more with them.

Make a Prioritized To-Do List

If you find yourself procrastinating or struggling to focus when you have a lot to do, a strategy is to make a prioritized to-do list.

Write down your top 3 to 5 most important tasks of the day. Do those things first.

This will ensure you complete your most important tasks first. It also helps get those things done and out of the way so they don't continue to hang over your head, adding stress and mental clutter to your day.

Let Go of What You Can

Being able to identify what you can let go of, reduce or eliminate is freeing.

Maybe you decide keeping up with your book club just isn't working for you right now and take a break from it. Or maybe you notice you have a busy/stressful week coming up and decide to reduce the time and energy you will spend cooking and opt for simple, quick meals.

For example, maybe you decide keeping up with your book club just isn’t working for you right now and take a break from it.

Or maybe you notice you have a busy/stressful week coming up and decide to reduce the time and energy you’ll spend cooking. Opting for simple, quick meals instead.

Simplify Your Space

Clutter is anything taking up your time, space, energy and attention, but not adding enough value back into your life in return.

Removing the clutter from your space means you will have less stuff to manage. This saves you time and energy, while also reducing the number of distractions needing your attention.

If there are things in your space you don't use, need, love or could comfortable live without, let them go. Decluttering and organizing your home create a home that will support you, not steal time, energy and attention from you.

Simplify Your Time

In the same way that there can be clutter in your home, there can also be clutter in your schedule. Be intentional with how you spend your time and where your time is going.

Don't be afraid to say no or reduce the commitments and obligations taking up your time in order to protect your time and save it for the things that matter most to you.

Set up a calendar for yourself and use it. Decide what will work best for you. Whether it's a paper planner, a digital calendar, or a time planning app.

Find a calendar system that works for you makes it easier to keep track of what needs to be done. It clearly shows what's coming up so you can plan for things rather than forgetting or getting caught off guard as they pop up.

Create a Spending Plan

Financial stress is one of the top sources of stress for many people. Having a plan for your money can reduce some of that stress significantly.

The word BUDGET can often get a bad reputation as being boring or restrictive. If you don't like the idea of budgeting, think of it as a spending plan instead.

A spending plan helps ensure your expenses will be covered. It helps you set financial goals and have a plan in place to reach them. It also helps you feel in control of your finances. This is an important way to reduce financial stress and worries.

Clean a Space

Cleaning a space is a great way to give yourself a quick win and feel like you have your life more together.

Whether it's your kitchen, your desk, etc. Put it in order. Take back some control and reduce feeling of chaos and overwhelm.

Our brains love order and tidiness. Organizing a space might not solve the root cause of the stress, but it will give you a clear, tidy, functional space to work in as you tackle what needs to be done. It's a quick win that can give you confidence, motivation and inspiration to keep taking action and solving problems.

Set Up Rhythms and Routines

By setting up rhythms and routines for tasks that need to be done regularly, is a good way to get your life together and reduce stress in your life.

Rhythms and routines mean you have to make fewer decisions about what to do and when to do it. Getting certain tasks done becomes automatic.

You will always know that what needs to get done will get done if you follow your routine. You never have to waste brainpower remembering what needs to get done and when you will do it.

If you consistently throw a load of laundry in every morning, you will never have to worry about laundry piling up or when it will get done. Instead it becomes rhythm and routine you do automatically. You never have to give laundry much though. It will always get done.

For example, if you consistently throw a load of laundry in every morning, you’ll never have to worry about laundry piling up or when it will get done. Instead, it becomes a rhythm and routine you do automatically. And you never have to give laundry much thought, but it always gets done.

Take Care of Yourself

A very important aspect of getting your life together is taking care of yourself. It doesn't have to be complicated, time-consuming or expensive. Simple things like making sure you get enough sleep, drink water and eat well can make a huge difference.

Everything seem harder and more stressful when you are exhausted or haven't fueled your body with the nutrition it needs.

Practice Gratitude

Rather than getting stuck in a cycle of focusing on everything you lack, aren't doing, complaining, negativity, gratitude invites you to notice the good already filling your life.

Find the joy in your days. Find ways to actively add pockets of joy to your everyday life. Simply shifting your mindset to gratitude can make a huge difference.

How to Get Your Life Together

Learning how to get your life together is an ongoing, life-long process. Life is always shifting and changing. What's working and not working will always be shifting and changing along with it.

Getting in the habit of assessing, adjusting and working towards goals to create a life you love will not only help you feel like you're getting your life together, it will also feel like you are living an intentional life that's meaningful to you.

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