What Are Your Beliefs About Being Organized?

In this blog post, I taught you about the difference between thoughts and circumstances.    At the end of the article, I mentioned that this understanding was a powerful step in managing your mind around creating and maintaining an organized life. 

Why is this skill so powerful? 

It’s because when you are able to determine the differences between circumstances and your thoughts, it’s easier to really focus on the thoughts that float through your brain all day long.   

Becoming super aware of your thinking then makes it much easier to understand how it’s not the circumstances in your life that create your problems, but that it’s actually your thoughts about those circumstances that create them. 

Eventually, it becomes apparent that the problems in your life are actually “thought problems.”  You can stop seeing the circumstances surrounding you as the cause of your troubles and understand that it’s just the way you think about them that is problematic.   

This is awesome news because when you realize that you have the power to change your life experience by choosing how you want to think about it, you take back control of your life and aren’t at the mercy of your surroundings. 

From Thoughts to Beliefs 

Whenever we set a big goal for ourselves, it is imperative that we have the belief that we can reach that goal.  For example, without the belief that you can create an organized space to live and work in, you have little chance of actually reaching that goal. 

Beliefs are simply thoughts or a series of thoughts that you’ve had over and over again so often that you believe them.   They are thoughts on repeat and deeply ingrained in our minds.  And like all other thoughts, beliefs are optional. 

Since we learned that our thoughts about the circumstances in our lives are up to us to choose, we can see how beliefs are also something that we can choose to create, discard, or hold on to.   

With that in mind, questioning your beliefs can be powerful.  Especially when you challenge the damaging ones that you have about your abilities to be productive and organized. 

“I am a disorganized person.”  

“I’m always running 15 minutes late.”  

“I’m too busy to make a schedule and stick to it.” 

These beliefs are the result of thoughts that you have repeated over and over again – in some cases for decades.  They probably feel like facts to you – kind of like you’re just reporting the news. 

But my challenge to you is to start questioning some of these negative beliefs.  If getting organized and productive in your business is your goal, let’s get your beliefs aligned with the results you want to achieve. 

In my next blog post, I’ll teach you a simple exercise that will help you deeply examine your thoughts and beliefs and get them out on paper.  It’s surprisingly effective in getting you where you want to be.