5 things that are important to write down to make your life easier

5 things that are important to write down to make your life easier

We tell you how to keep a diary with benefits.

Practicing psychologist, member of the Association for Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy, storyteller.

The right list will help you organize your life. What should you write down?

Basic to-do’s for the day

Having an outline of your own day on hand is both helpful and harmful. The pros are that you plan in advance, in what actions to invest energy. And also reduce anxiety by identifying specific items and move strictly within the priorities.

The downside is the inability to accept uncertainty and force majeure, and the need to make changes to your to-do list. That’s why I recommend including only basic things in the plan: “need to go to work”, “report”, “meet my wife”, “doctor’s appointment”.

Ideas

You don’t have to be in a creative profession for your mind to come up with interesting and potentially useful ideas. For example, a psychologist can, during meditation, imagine the project and the outline of a future book. If there is no time for it, written down in a special notebook, it will come in handy at the time of a more free schedule. Recorded ideas will be a contribution to the future.

Goals

These are not plans for the day or ideas – they are specific goals, the realization of which is necessary in the timeframe you have defined. It is better to supplement the list of goals with a list of tasks, breaking down the big things into small steps. Such an approach will avoid procrastination due to the presence of global aspirations. More about what prevents us from achieving goals, told earlier.

Life Values

Where there are goals and objectives, your life values should definitely be present – they are the foundation and support. For example, staying healthy, helping world peace, caring for the environment, starting and growing a family, etc. By building on these, you more quickly find the strength and energy to overcome challenges and refuse temptations outside of your values.

Commemorations

Family, collective, social life. It is always nice for a partner to receive from you congratulations on the anniversary of the first date, and a colleague – congratulations on his birthday. It is all the more important to congratulate significant clients on memorable dates, birthdays and so on. This is an extra reason to strengthen the bond.