ORGANIZING BEHAVIOR OBSERVATIONS

How do organized people behave?

Overview:

If you’ve gotten to this point, it’s clear you’re confident of attaining a higher level of self-accomplishment! The harsh reality of our world is that we’ll always have underachievers or average achievers, and then high achievers. There’ll always be a chasm between these two sets of people.

ORGANIZING BEHAVIOR is a term coined by Jesmine Onyeukwu, which is defined as the way a person thinks, acts, responds and or functions in a state of order. It is the ability to properly define, digest and disseminate information, ideas, thoughts, activities, processes and systems in order to attain a set of objectives and an expected result. Highly organized people certainly have a set of traits that make them highly functional.

In observing the behaviors of an organized person, we will analyze some behavioral patterns like mental agility, emotional agility, stress management, creativity, self-leadership, etc.

Module Objectives:

After completing this module, students will:

• Identify the organizing behavior misconceptions that are limiting.
• Understand the following behavioral concepts and how they affect organizing. There are three areas of focus in this section:
  1. Behavioral approach
  2. Behavioral economics
  3. Behavioral management
• Explain the behavioral patterns and practices of highly organized people.
• Define their personalized organizational patterns/attitude and select specific target practices.

DEVELOPING AN ORGANIZING HABIT COMPETENCE

How do we master the art of LIFE organization?

Overview:

In the previous modules, we looked at the 3 most important steps in the Organizing Mindset Mastery. These are:

1. Identifying behaviors that need to be altered.
2. Identifying organizational behavioral patterns that should be learned
3. And clearly defining target practices.

This module will help us effectively apply the appropriate attitudes, habits, beliefs, thoughts, feelings, actions, etc., and approaches like iterative approaches, in the improvement of our organizing skills.
Organizing is a life skill. It requires constant practice for improvement, just like swimming or exercising. The more you learn and practice a thing, the better you get at it. You’ll do it with seamless effort. The more you practice the art of organizing, the more you’ll enjoy the benefits of being organized. However, you must understand the right application of the required practices in both mental and physical organization. In developing competence, the use of reinforcements and triggers have a significant effect on behavior. There is the need for positive reinforcements that reward the right behavior and triggers that prompt or remind us of those habits that need to happen.

Module Objectives:

Upon completion of this module, students will:

• Define their most appropriate and most effective patterns and practices.
• Evaluate the tools for applying those patterns and practices.
• Learn to use behavioral techniques like self-modification to enhance the new process.
• Create a personalized schedule of reinforcement and a list of necessary cues.

Bonus Objective: Join the support group and learn from target behaviors models.

DESIGNING FOR THE BRAIN

What is the easiest and most effective way to high-level achievements using organizing skills?

Overview:

Here, we’ll understand how to optimize the behaviors, habits, and skills we’ve learned in Module 2 and 3.

In this module, we will focus on MINDSET MASTERY principles that’ll help us effectively maximize our organizing and productivity skills. We will be challenging conventional knowledge on how the brain works, with the latest research in developmental thinking, cognitive psychology, and social psychology that allows us an easier path to success. The brain is built to serve us and assist us in our overall optimal functioning, both in the short and long term. So, let’s learn how to put it to effective use with the best mental practices.

Think of the brain as an engine that needs regular oiling and refueling to operate at maximum capacity. Ponder on oiling/refueling as what happens to the brain when you stay relaxed, encouraged, and in an emotionally stable state. Many of us think that peak performance or high-level achievement happens when the brain has been worked out and worked up, but the reality is that peak performance is most likely to occur when the brain is less exhausted and when we optimize our balance between high and low cognitive load activities.

Module Objectives:

Upon completion of this module, you will:

• Understand your autopilot and how downhill activities affect the mental process.
• Learn how to activate your ‘brain power’ to support the achievement of long-term goals.
• Understand the OMM 6 Brain Design Techniques used to correct skills deficit problems.
• Learn personal development with the application of 3 Meditation strategies and 21 Meditation practices.
• Learn the use of affirmations and aligning words and desires with attitudes/actions.
• Create your own LIFE statements using the right approach with assistance from the instructor.

PRIORITY MANAGEMENT

How do we sustain a state of being organized?

Overview:

You are now at the point where you must align your goals with your activities. It is time to set your priorities straight by determining the cost and value of everything you do. This is where you learn how to apply clarity, focus, effective planning, and execution skills to the core elements of your life also known as your ”GAIT” (Goals, Attitudes/Actions, Information, and Time).

As priorities change over time and require constant reviews, we need to learn how to regularly commit every single aspect of our ”GAIT” to value. Our ”GAIT” must be set to deliver what is most valuable to us at every point in time. This is where we get to set smart LIFE Organization Goals (LOGs) for ourselves and develop measurable, realistic steps for accomplishing those goals.

Module Objectives:

This module will help you:

• Understand the implication of cost and value in prioritizing.
• Follow the step by step guide for effective goal statements and goal setting
• Align your most valuable priorities with your SMART LIFE Organization Goals (LOGs).
• Determine their personalized SMART LOGs and break major goals into sizeable minor goals.
• Develop a step by step plan to achieve those goals by determining tasks.
• Add time components to tasks and goals.

ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES

What is the framework for planning and implementing organization?

Overview:

Organizing principles are the core components of all organizing concepts and organizing projects (physical or mental). These principles are the framework that helps you define the direction and systems/tools required for any organizing project, whether it’s a basic closet organization project, a critical one like mental organization or a complex one like digital information management.

In this module, we’ll learn about the significance and implications of the principles of organizing. You’ll learn how these principles are applied in organizing. and you will carry out your own mini project applying one or more of these principles and explain the implications you notice.

Some organizing principles that will be examined are:

1. Streamlining
2. Decluttering
3. Categorization, etc.

Module Objectives:

Upon completing this module, students will:

• Understand how each of the above-listed principles affects organizing.
• Identify the organizing principles that best applies to their organizational situations.
• Carry out a personal organizing project to analyze one or more of these principles.
• Share findings with the class.

ORGANIZING SYSTEM AND TOOLS

Are there any problem-solving techniques and formulas used by organized people?

Overview:

An effective way to organize and accomplish any tasks is to first get equipped. Just as there are tools for every trade, and instruments for every craft, organizing requires specific systems and tools for planning, developing, and implementing projects. An Organizational system is the structured and detailed step-by-step procedure involved in a basic organizing project. Organizing is an active mental process. It can be a complicated process of decision making without a system (modus operandi) and tools and failure to apply them will turn any organizing project into an unsuccessful venture.

These are 3 of the 10 steps that are the basic processes in an organizing system:

1. Initial Assessment
2. Challenge Identification
3. Asset Evaluation

We will also learn the variety of organizing tools to use alongside the organizing system and organizing principles that make the implementation of an organizing process easy, sustainable and efficient.

Module Objectives:

Upon completion of this module, students will:

• Have a good understanding of the basic organizing system/tools and how they are used.
• Understand the easy and effective ways to implement and maintain organizing with this 10-step system.
• Carry out personal organization assessments by applying the JessylsCharm Assessment Tool alongside other organizing tools.
• Share their results with the group.

10 BASIC O.R.G.A.N.I.Z.I.N.G. RULES FOR DAILY EFFECTIVENESS AND SUSTAINED ORGANIZING

What are the daily practices of organized people?

Overview:

Some people are quite mentally organized but still struggling with keeping their physical space as organized and vice versa. Some are struggling with being organized in both aspects. These basic daily rules for personal organization will help align our organized mental state with our physical space, thereby, creating a positive environment for us to grow, thrive, and achieve much more. Very importantly, this module will provide the rule for sustained organizing. No relapse! No falling off the wagon!! We can’t afford to return to the kind of lifestyle that made us underachievers and average achievers. No, we won’t!

These 10 basic rules will help us imbibe values like consciousness, carefulness, intentionality, accountability, simplicity, etc.

Module Objectives:

This concluding module will:

• Teach you the 10 very handy rules (you can literally carry in your purse or wallet) for everyday effectiveness.
• Teach you the steps for simplifying every single aspect of your life.
• Help you stay on track and keep you motivated to continue in your new-found lifestyle.