How to Organise Around What Truly Matters to You

Welcome! If you've ever created a beautifully colour-coded organisation system only to abandon it days later, you're in the right place. The truth is, the solution isn't about finding the perfect planner or app. It's about building a personal organisation system around what genuinely matters to you, not what you think you 'should' be doing. When your setup aligns with your values and how your brain actually works, you'll find yourself naturally using it instead of avoiding it.

The 'Should' Trap

Let's start by acknowledging a common mistake: building systems based on what we think we 'should' do. You've probably been there—buying that elaborate planner because everyone swears by it, downloading apps that promise to transform your life, or trying to maintain a system that looks impressive but feels exhausting.

Here's the reality: if your organisational setup doesn't match your brain's natural way of working, it becomes another source of stress rather than support. The first step is accepting your reality. Your brain has unique strengths and genuine limits, and that's perfectly okay. Stop forcing yourself into an ideal you think you should live up to.

Find Your 'Why'

This is where the magic begins. Take a moment to reflect: what truly matters to you? Not what society says should matter, not what worked for your colleague, but what genuinely lights you up and gives your days meaning.

Your 'Why' might be:

• Being a present parent who never misses important family moments
• Completing creative projects that showcase your talents
• Maintaining meaningful relationships with friends and loved ones
• Building a career that aligns with your passions

Once you've identified your core values, every organisational decision becomes easier. If being a present parent is your Why, your system should make family time easy to see on the calendar and simple to protect. If finishing key projects matters most, your tools should make next steps obvious and genuinely hard to forget.

Build a Simple System

Now it's time to construct your personalised organisation system, and simplicity is your best friend. Choose tools that feel natural in your hands and brain. If an app feels clunky or a notebook system seems complicated, you won't use it—and that's valuable information.

Follow these principles:

• Remove steps you genuinely dislike or find difficult
• Place things where you'll actually use them
• Make the easiest path the right path
• Keep asking yourself, 'Would I actually do this?'

If the answer is no, simplify again. Don't organise for appearances or to impress anyone. Organise for your real, everyday life. Remember, your brain is a thinking machine, not a storage unit. The more you can externalise tasks and commitments into a system you trust, the freer your mind becomes.

Live in the Flow

When your Why leads the way, something remarkable happens: you stop arguing with yourself and start flowing with your day. Your system might not look like anyone else's, and that's precisely the point. The more it fits you specifically, the less effort it takes to maintain.

You'll notice the difference immediately. That sense of calm in the final panel of our comic strip? That's what happens when your organisational setup works with you, not against you. Ease beats ambition every single time.

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