Get Remarkably Organised

When you experience an organisational slip-up, don’t use it as an opportunity to beat yourself up. Instead, focus your energy on doing one of these things: 1. Do a ten-minute tidy-up of a room in your house or your workspace. 2. Write your to-do list for tomorrow. 3. Go for a ten-minute walk around the block with the express intention of hitting yo

4. Read ten pages of a book. 5. Read the most relevant troubleshooting topic from the next part of this book.

Author Sarah Wilson advises those who slip up on her ‘I Quit Sugar’ program to eat a pork chop. One reason is that the fat and protein in the pork helps to stabilise blood sugar. However, another – and greater – reason is that it gives the person a proactive course of action to deal with the inevitable slip-up.

When I’ve got something on my list that I’ve never done before, it’s likely that I’ll procrastinate for a few days about getting it done – or even weeks if it’s something really big. It was only when reading Neil Fiore’s The Now Habit that I realised why I do this.

1. You don’t want to do it Do you actually have to do it?

Even though she was hardly aware that she was making the bread, every loaf was perfect. I never once remember a loaf not turning out well. She was operating on Level 4. She had created the necessary neural pathways so that she could bake the daily bread with little or no active thought

Pleasure, he explains, is a short-term win that we derive from activities like eating delicious food, watching TV or having a massage. Enjoyment, however, comes from working on tasks that are productive and get us closer to our goals.

never leave the scene of setting a goal without doing one thing to get him closer to that goal. It might be putting a meeting in his diary or calling a potential mentor to make first contact with them – anything to start some flow.

Scent is a great cue for me. I’m sure you’ve experienced the power of scent to transport you to a specific time or place, or remind you of a certain person. It might be a shampoo you used on a foreign holiday, a certain kind of food cooking or the perfume of a loved one.