 Do you sometimes feel like you have so much going on, so much to do, so many places to be, and you just feel so overwhelmed that sometimes we just say eff it and we don't do any of it, or we just stress and stress and stress and feel so overwhelmed and so disorganized and don't even know where to start. In today's video I'm going to share my top three ways to stay organized so that you can overall live more freely, more peacefully and less stressed. If you're new here I'm Sarah and I created this channel to help you build a more fulfilling and loving and beautiful life with a dash of spirituality and today we're gonna get organized. So did you guys know that there's something called decision-making fatigue? So basically our brains are only capable of making X amount of decisions every single day so the more that you can remove some of those decisions from your daily life the less stress you're going to have because over time that will compound and give you a bigger sense of just relief, organization and just feeling more calm when you have a lot of things going on. Actually I think it was um what's his face I don't know there's a lot of people out there that are high earners like Bill Gates and others who actually wear the exact same outfit every single day so that takes a decision out of their day that has to be made freeing up their decisions to be made for other things. Another example of this is if you're on some kind of diet you're trying to lose weight you'll notice that your willpower isn't there as much later in the day as it is when you first wake up in the morning and that's because you've used all of your decisions up so let's get right into it. So tip number one and I've been doing this for probably over two years now and it has seriously been a game changer and that is looking at all the things you have to do day by day and picking out the top three things you must do every day and this can range from big things like work related event related whether you have to get a gift for something all the way down to sometimes I do hey I really want to get this journal prompt done today I really want to write about this in my journal so it can just be an array of things obviously some days you're going to have more important things than others and you just want to take those top three things and write them down so I'll show you mine here real quick I just do it in my phone but you know you obviously can do it with the pen and paper on your computer whatever float your boat so so as you can see here I've got Wednesday I know I have a few more than three things but they're little things so I know I can get them okay don't come from me don't come from me I have Wednesdays here if you can see that hello and then we've got Thursday and then I don't have anything for Friday yet and I have my biggest thing on Saturday so all I do is I go through this throughout the day and I check things off and I just erase them I erase them when they're done and one of the things on here is film YouTube what to do when you're feeling overwhelmed so I get to check that one off when I'm done filming this and then tomorrow I have edit YouTube there we go so that is like if you're going to take away anything from these top three things this is the one to follow and look we're not super freaking human okay I mean we kind of are but we're kind of not so if some days you don't get through everything move it to the next day that's what I do and then other days you might get ahead on your schedule and pull up something from the next day or the day after or whatever but you want to just keep in mind keep those top three things whatever they may be they can be related to anything whatever's going on in your life and just focus on those three things and get them done I usually go throughout the day I'll get one done in the morning or when it fits into my schedule right now it's around 12 o'clock so I'm in the middle of my work day but I have a few hours gap so I was able to squeeze this in right here so don't stress out too much about it don't stress about the stress just organize it organize it look I'm a Virgo I live by organizations and lists and spreadsheets and all this kind of stuff so I'm just sharing my knowledge with you because I get very overwhelmed okay okay so the next thing it's a spreadsheet okay so I found myself getting very overwhelmed I have four very very close friends of mine getting married this year so that means four weddings four bachelorettes four showers four sets of gifts for outfits for sets of accommodations flights hotels I'm gonna tell you what one night I just lost it and I was like I cannot I cannot do this I'm freaking out I don't know when's where I have to be for what what do I have done what do I still need to do so I made my handy dandy spreadsheet and it made me think of why don't I do this all the time life is busy all the time so if you have a lot of things coming up whether it's birthdays anniversaries events work things vacations whatever it is make a spreadsheet okay I know it looks a lot it looks like a lot but I'll tell you what it probably only took me uh I don't know an hour an hour to do all of this so and I even have some things color coded so I've got blue things our wedding stuff purple things or other events red it's still things that I need to do outfits I need to get but our gifts that I need to buy and I will tell you guys what as soon as I finished this freaking spreadsheet I was like my work here is done because then you know what I've done after that I take these and I put the things I still need to do and I spread them out through my top three lists every single day who's all that coming so that's kind of how I work those two things together and like I've literally never done this before and I'm kicking myself because it's amazing and you just have it there and you just fill things in as you did it you know I bought a gift two nights ago so I went through and I checked it off my little spreadsheet and it's like one thing done another thing done and you just like feel really good about it okay okay and so the last thing I want to talk about I believe I may have talked about this in another video but I'm not sure so I want to bring it up again here is if you think of something that you need to do a small thing and it's something that you can do within the next five minutes do it now do it now or if it's something that you know that's going to make you feel better in an hour and a day in a week and if you just spend those five minutes doing it now do it do it get it done do it while you're thinking of it if you can't do it right while you're thinking about it what I will do is I will pull out my alarm on my phone okay and I will set an alarm for a time later in the day that I know I'm going to have time to do this thing and I set it up and I do it an example of this would be I just bought some new uh pillowcases that I'm really excited about I know adulting and last night I was like hey I should wash these so I can put them on my bed so I can sleep with them tonight and that would make me like really happy and I had a really long day at work yesterday I was on the road driving for like eight freaking hours but I was like I'm going to be so happy if I just do this so I did and guess what I was happy so it really doesn't take a lot of work to get organized it's just knowing how to do it and what to do so hopefully you guys found a lot of value in this video I know our lives can be so overwhelming sometimes I feel that way quite often but doing these three things will be such a game changer for you and over time as I said earlier you will realize that it compounds and it becomes kind of a habit or a routine where you just don't have to worry about those things anymore because you build that trust in yourself that you know you're gonna get it done so it does a lot of things for you while just doing these simple tasks so I hope you found a lot of value in this video I love you guys if you did please like this video and subscribe so we can hang out again next week I love you guys so much don't forget to hit the little bell and share this with someone who needs it and don't forget be limitlessly yourself