The Efficiency Proposal

What were you just thinking? Did you just forget because you were clicking on this post title? Was it something you were supposed to put it on your grocery list? Or possibly something more important? Maybe it’ll come back to you, but maybe it won’t.

The simpler we attack our lives, the more productive we will be. Is there anything more simple than a pen and paper? For some, the paper affects the thought process.

It’s all about personal opinion but here are a few places where you can store your thoughts:

• Moleskin or composition notebook – This paper is lined and can be easily bulleted.

• Google Notebook – The benefit of this is that it is free and you can do it while at your computer! You can make quick little logs.

• Binder – If you are looking to add notes in, either from a printed or new documents, you may want to go the route of the binder.

• Journal – This option is if you want to track your life with writing.

• Folder – Do you have a lot of loose papers? Stuff them in a folder and sort later. Although this is no efficient way to go through your life, they can be sorted at a later date.

After we have decided what paper to use, we have to move our decisions towards the places of how we are going to go about writing down our thoughts down. Sometimes the type of notebook we use will affect what choice we choose. We’ll call this book your “life book” from now on.

How do we get down to business?

Jotting down notes of your life takes patience, persistence, and determination. Just by understanding the concept of my post you’ll know this. If you constantly show an effort to take something out of the experience of writing down your life, you will benefit from it.

Your successes and failures, triumphs and defeats, will go into your life book. It’ll become an important aspect of your life, and later you will cherish it. Now it may seem like “that book” that sits and waits in the corner, but later it will play a major role in your life development.

If anything in your life takes place, let your notebook know about it. Don’t worry about what you write, just make sure you do write. The goal is to increase the significance of your book in your life and you can’t do that if you are lazy.

Planning and jotting down your thoughts are in the same category of time management. I have never been a planner. Whether it had to do with essay writing or party committees it just wasn’t my thing. Until blogging. I have always dismissed writing thoughts down, I mean, “Hey, my brain is smart enough. When I write something down it just seems like I waste of time.”  One month ago, I was thinking those previous thoughts. Now I’m thinking along the lines of, “If I forget to plan today, what am I going to do in three weeks when such and such post goes live?!?”

The brilliance of the notebook is that you don’t need to think while you are writing. Any thought in your head, jot down for future reference. Live by the saying “you never know.” Very easily could you be asked about what happened at work the previously day. Just find out by checking your notebook.

When writing in your notebook, don’t distract yourself. The last thing you want is to find yourself talking to a friend or watching television. You want to produce productiveness, not avoid it. Slap yourself into shape!