Do You Want Tips, Lessons, or Help?

Just tell me what to do.

Telling me what to do is not helping.

I don't know where to start.

I got started but got stuck.

I don't know where to put it.

I know where to put it but there's no room.

I found a youtube, but it's not helping.

These are comments from people trying to get through a project or organize life's demands. The reasons and frustrations are all over the place.

Every one of them is valid, requiring a different problem-solving approach.

The most challenging is the person who says, "I just want you to organize everything for me."

Think about what's bothering you.

Honestly, I don't think if I can do that for you. Definitely not all at once and not without you being an active partner in the project.

Creating the life you want is not linear nor is it once and done. It's a constant swirl of these elements:

These 5 work together.

So while I can't offer organizing your life, what we can offer you are tips, lessons, and help. For your benefit, start here by Reviewing the Life Mastery Assessment.  

Use the related subject assessments on the webpage to narrow where to focus next.

There are at 10 areas of your life that we can address in general:

Growth, Health, Credibility, Social, Recreation, Work, Finances, Time, Information, and Environment.

Discouraged?

Don't get distracted or stalled. A reality check is the first step.

Let's give some examples of how coaching and organizing work, including tips, lessons, and appropriate help.

• Tips are quick nuggets of ideas.

• Lessons explain methods, the what and the why of something.

• Help can be tips and lessons, but take them further by working with you to learn, change, or compete whatever you need

But first, there is nothing more annoying when you only need a tip and people offer long lesssons. Or when you need someone to physically work with you (or dedicate online time), and you're offered a quick tip on how to keep the situation from happening.

It's up to you to help guide what assistance you need.

Start with "I just need a quick tip, a pointer."

Or, "I know all the tips, tricks, and methods, dammit; I need someone to be with me to work on it."

Examples:

A tip: Most folks want to address the last on the Mastery list: their environments. It's an excellent first step because small tweaks in your physical spaces often solve a lot of other frustrations.

A lesson: Start by mentally and physically touring your spaces, recording what bugs you, what you'd like to function better. Note layouts, lighting, smells, colors, traffic flow, and divide the stuff you see into clutter and needed. You're good to go on your own.

A help is asking someone to help you refine what's needed and help you design, move, and arrange things.

Small changes make daily life easier and open your mind to identify more good possibilities, but we need to refine where to focus.

What's next on your list?

A tip: Pick the one that returns the most satisfaction for the least amount of stress and effort. Perhaps it's the about the demands on your Time. (Click the link for a time assessment. Click the pix below for current Time class info.)

Tips and lessons help you manage your time.

A lesson: Review your current time commitments for work, personal and home care, relationships, recreation and whatever else you do. Do you spend enough or too much time? What did you learn?

A help: Who can you share the load with? When you have data of you how you spend your time, you can tweak your calendar, tasks, and responsibiities.

Catching the pattern now? Feeling less overwhelmed and more confident?

Decide what's easiest to start with and if and what kind of help you want. Yes, youtube is fair game.

But if you're still stuck, Let's talk.

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."  

~Albert Einstein

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