How To Structure Your Life

If you want to know how to structure your life, it is a must that you have goals that you want to achieve because structuring your life means orienting yourself towards an end result. For most people, the end result is usually a life well lived and the fulfilment of their potential. Others just want to have children, some to finish their education, others to get married but whatever it is, a life structure will make it easier for you to go through the motions of life and to achieve the level of success that you crave.

But before you begin structuring your life, it is important that you have a clear understanding of what a structure means. A structure is the foundation on which something is based. To give you an example, the laws of physics give order to our universe. They determine what happens and what cannot happen basically the reality that we experience every day. Similarly, a life structure will determine your reality, the rules that you follow, the goals you set, what you expect of yourself and those around you.

Essentially, a life structure is a guide that will orient your decisions towards a path that you will have to carefully craft for yourself. The good thing about life structure is that you already have one in place as long as you have a behaviour pattern that defines you. If you for instance brush your teeth when you wake up, walk your dog, take your kid to school, drive to work every morning or do any of the millions of routine things that people do on a daily basis, it means that your life is already structured around these things. The objective, therefore, is to make you better at doing them, eliminating the noise that is.

So how do you structure your life for the better? Here are a few tips on how to structure your life

Something in the Hero has to die or Change

Every hero has his or her journey and in their chosen path they must make sacrifices to slay whatever dragon obstructs them from their ultimate goal and the same is true in life. Assuming that you are not Hercules, the journey for you will be the things that you want to achieve in life, your goals that is and to get to them, you must drop some habits along the way. It is not easy of course to just say I have stopped drinking or to end a life sucking relationship abruptly but you’ve got to have the will to try. Martin Luther King Jnr once said, “If you can’t run then walk if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you must keep moving forward.” The thing is, take it in bits; it is easier that way.

Engage in Deliberate Practice

Most people have never practiced any form of organization in their life, all the rules they follow are the same ones they were taught at home by their parents, at school or picked up randomly here and there. And there is no way that an assortment of attitudes and behaviors picked up this way are optimal for performance. Socrates noted that “an unexamined life is not worth living” and there is much truth to this it is also what Buddha advocated when he called on people to be mindful and to meditate on the nature of life. In short, you need to examine your life, make a list of your behaviors note down the ones that displease you and one by one replace them with the “examined ones.” Socrates would applaud you for that, and by doing this, you will have structured your life for optimal performance.
Structuring your life is that easy, and it begins with your willingness to change and to be consistent. It requires above all that you examine and reflect on your current behaviours tick the ones that you admire and do away with those that hold you back.

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Mateo Ngatia

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