Lets ignore how boring the title sounds and jump straight into the meats of it. Organizational practices, such as success or planning boards, categorizing things, organizing things, in the right order, helps organize and improve one's personal life considerably.
Point one: a checklist or a to-do list. This one has been beaten to death here so not going to repeat too much here. The main point is that keeping a written list of things you need to accomplish by certain point, and holding yourself accountable if you were unable to do them by requiring you to fill out why they were not done, makes you be more conscious of things you do on a daily basis and that you need to do. It makes you more disciplined.
Point two: Sorting things helps even in the most basic of tasks. Organizations tend to divide their tasks according to the size of the workload, and allocate accordingly. There's lots of sorting involved. They don't just pick up random things from the grab-bag and go through each of them as they come. There's a method to analyzing the load, and figuring out which should be done first. This is even besides the prioritization. This adds a slight overhead in the beginning but pays for itself many times over during execution. For example, when you're folding your laundry, consider sorting the clothes by their type and where they go to in your hamper, and start with the easiest one, instead of picking whatever is at the top of the cloth mountain. It'll make the folding considerably quick. And even fun perhaps haah.
Point three: Categorization is important, and efficiency is important for certain things. I'll cut the chase: when you're brushing, how do you decide to approach your teeth? My general approach had been 'front teeth, & everything else'. When I read about the concept of 'quadrants' aka dividing your mouth into quadrants and doing each quadrant for a certain time before moving to a different one, it made my brushing more methodical, quicker and efficient. Hurray!
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