Your Weekly Challenge:

REMINDER: You don’t have to do the challenge! See it as an idea on how to spend your week more productively.

Know what to do everyday. Commit to setting aside time for scheduling MUST DO tasks for the next day on your calendar\any way you keep your lists. To make sure these tasks are achievable, make them as clear as possible so that you’ll know that you finished them when you do. For example:

“Read 5 pages in [book X]”

Your Weekly Inspirational Story:

“I am a home-based entrepreneur and my home office becomes cluttered.

Very cluttered.

Sometimes the clutter is due to me being too busy to tidy up.

However much of the problem is that my home office serves more functions than just work.

For instance, my office is used for opening mail and managing our home finances;

as a sewing room for my quilting projects; as a kennel so our dogs can nap while I work; and as a dumping ground for items that need to be put away or returned to a store.

I have been fascinated with feng shui* for many years and wanted to share some of the principles with members of my Serene Solopreneur community.

I decided to use the principles of feng shui to declutter my office.

Yesterday I realized that I'd had the most productive two weeks in recent memory. Seriously productive.

My friends have been telling me that I am "on fire!"

Equally shocking was that my dog had been sleeping quietly in her pen beside my desk -- highly unusual for my energetic 2-year-old mini dachshund.

And it dawned on me -- my surge in productivity started the day my office was clean. Although I didn't feel like the clutter was holding me back,

clearly a clutter-free office is propelling me forward.”

Source: www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-decluttering-my-office-made-me-more-productive-sue-allen-clayton

*Feng shui- an ancient Chinese art of arranging objects and the space around you in an environment to achieve harmony and balance.

!!!- I advise you to write the answers down on paper, as they help you figure out stuff about yourself, which you might find useful later on!

Reflective-thinking question:

• Is your room as tidy as the author’s? If not, do you notice anything in your area that you can move to organize?

Critical-thinking question:

• Do you believe that being organized increases productivity? Why or why not?

Your Weekly ‘Food For Thought’ question

What helps you declutter your mind? Do you notice it boosts your productivity?

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