Create Projects — Some To Organise & Others To Expand Your Life
Our lives demand & need projects
During the morning, I still had a nagging need for some sort of ‘stimulus’.
So I went through some old photos and screenshots and deleted many of them. I’d like to know why our phones don’t have a screenshot option that self-deletes after 24 hours. Seems so easy to do. It would save me and many others the tedious task of deleting old screenshots.
This is one of my mini-maintenance projects mentioned in the previous post.
Projects:
For me, a project is something that has a clear outcome and timeframe for ending. It’s not a habit or an activity you keep doing. Once finished, you will move on to other projects.
It is more than a to-do list since it often comprises a few more steps than a simple task.
My current projects can be divided into two categories (which will likely evolve in the future), organisational projects and uncharted territory.
[i] Organisational Projects
The things you have been putting off but know will make you feel better when completed. Or just little jobs you’d like to see done.
Organisational Project List:
- Clean, sort and organise my folders at home, binning anything not needed
- Clean, sort and organise my folders on my laptop. Back up important files.
- Go through photos, delete duplicates and unnecessary screenshots
- Print photos and put them into albums
- Go through the saved Instagram tab [will not do now, obviously]
- Creating a password system
- Create an information-unclogging system
- I will keep these a live document and add to these in my future posts*
This is part of a 30-day challenge series, where I quit social media and other distracting apps for this period. You can read the reasons and protocol I decided to follow in my first post here.
Although this writing series reflects my personal experience with the 30-day challenge. I’ve focused on axillary benefits and practical ideas in each day’s post that can benefit the reader doing or thinking of doing a similar challenge.
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In other words, it may be a reason to read other titles you like. At the bottom of each post, I have a list of the 30 days of writing with a brief description.
ii] Plunging into ‘organisational projects.’
As I wrote on day 1, I have been arranging to complete some of these organisational projects, which will make me feel better when finished.
They are preparing me for more creative and exciting projects in category two.
Although these projects seem like detours to doing more daring projects. Organising our physical and digital life provides the space to grow.
Although some people can function flawlessly with clutter, it’s not the optimal state for me.
Analysing this list of undertakings, I have noticed two personal needs.
The first is about arranging my life, and the second is saving time in the future.
For example, in my digital world, I often save screenshots and grab the bits of information I like. However, it’s helpful only once I sieve through these and categorise everything. Keeping only the finest ideas.
Furthermore, I will know when to use it. So, for instance, if it relates to my business or health, I will see the idea I liked in a folder.
This way, the images or thoughts I liked will move from potential to kinetic energy and turn into something quicker. I will see them in front of me in that folder and can do something with them there and then if I choose to.
The second category of saving time in the future is my way to battle the first category. Once I do all the decluttering, I am looking to create simple systems that can spare me the joy of organising in the first place.
For example, a habit of deleting a screenshot once taken and used or the zero email inbox strategy I’ve implemented recently. Some will be manual, and others automatic.
[ii] unchartered territory.
The second are less pressing, and their rewards can be unclear, enriching or not. However, these can propel you further than the safe and apparent projects and even impact + inspire others.
They are optional, and what makes working on them even a bit scary.
The second category is where the top people in any field live. To get there, some groundwork needs to be done.
My unchartered territory list:
- Photos of others (Instagram)
- Post a YouTube video
- Post a TikTok video
*In my next post, I will expand on each of these projects and maybe even include my current progress on them.*
