Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Lionel Messi, Virat Kohli, AR Rahman, Mahatma Gandhi… what do they all have in common? They have done much more with their time than most other people. How?
They value THEIR time more than anything else and understood that putting great VALUE on time will set them apart from the crowd. Take each ones example and what they have done in their lives, is a lot for most people to do in 2 or even 3 lifetimes.
How did they achieve so much when we all struggle just to complete the basic daily chores? They organised themselves in whatever they did.
Nature, Life and Success rewards order.
We all need to understand that life and nature demands order and if things are to happen in a certain way and we need to figure out that order for ourselves to keep consistently growing in our lives. That order will make your progress systematic and eventually stand you out from the crowd.
Talent can only create a flash in the pan. But Order, can really make you go places. Now, the question arises how to bring about order in our lives? Order is not an act, it has to be a habit.
The habit of creating order and structure in your chaotic life.
Starting from the time you wake up in the morning. No . Wait. It has to start the previous night. You need to have an order plan prepared for next day. This order plan needs to aligned with your long term important goals and short term urgent ones.
Smart thing would be to touch upon all spheres of your life and categorise them under Health, Work, Relations and Giving Back to society. Each one of them need to have long term important goal and short term urgent items. For example, your long term imp goal under work could be reaching an income of INR 100k monthly, and short term urgent item in this section could be completing the project. Similarly for other heads as well.
The daily grind, this is where most give up.
Now, once the goals are ready you need to include them in the next days plan and schedule. You need to ensure that every day you are working on each of the main heads and in them, both, important goals and urgent items need to be actioned upon. Small-Daily-Actions.
Now, when you will start to work on this order, you will face resistance from the existing disorder in your life. The resistance would be both mental and physical. Your brain will give logics, as to why this is not making any sense at all, or maybe give you a false sense of achievement, so that you may falter or it may highlight things which will shake your faith in the process.
Stick to the new order & plan, voila, there is some help.
However, the plan and structure will slowly work to create an order which will be beneficial in the long run. Now the question is how to identify, whether the new order or change right?
You would be surprised to see that after sometime when the new order settles and if it is good for you, your body will in certain ways tell you. Another tell-tale sign is that when you empower anything external it will bring disorder. Like, if eating some type of food makes you happy then its not right. Certain friends talking good about you makes you happy its not right.
Why?
Because you empower them, and one day when you may not get that food or those friends then you crave for it and become unhappy. This is not order.
Benefits of working for the order aligned to nature?
Order will make you self-reliant and eventually lead you to a position where you can add true value in other people’s life, success will be a by-product. But before reaching that stage you need to work tirelessly, daily, every hour to bring about a structured approach to your life.
I have shared one such approach to bring that order in your life through planning and following it up with action and then reviewing the action for any corrections in the plan. If you keep repeating this cycle over and over again, then slowly you will fall into an order which will balance all the spheres of your life.
What is your current order in your life and do you follow any specific order?