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3 Ways to Organize Your Life

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Chatham chapter.

Sometimes life can get out of hand and leave us looking like crazies. Deadlines are missed, appointments forgotten, meals skipped and you are lucky if you can get a solid 3 hours of sleep. These are 3 tips to organize your life.

1. Use a planner

It might seem tedious to use a planner, but it is a real life organizer. Plus there are tons of different types of planners. You can pick up a low maintenance one from places like CVS, Target, or Walmart, or you can get a legit one from companies like Erin Condren or Plum Paper so you can customize your own. You might have to try out different formats to find the one that fit you, but they can be fun to decorate.

2. Use your phone calendar

If you are a millennial, 9 times out of 10 you have your phone either in your hand or within a foot of yourself. You can use this to your advantage. Made a verbal appointment with someone? Put it in your phone calendar and add a reminder. The reminder should be the amount of time it takes you to both get ready and get there. This will assure that you’ll remember and get there on time.

3. Try the Eisenhower box

This is probably the easiest way to determine what is important and what needs to be done now or later. You’ll be surprise at how many things you can toss off your to do list just by using this box. Take your basic to do list and put them into this box as you see fit then start with the critical & urgent box.

Iyanna is an English and Creative Writing major at Chatham University. You can follow Iyanna's Instagram @lively_bones where she pretty much posts selfies and crafts, or you can follow her Studyblr @studymydeer.
Indigo Baloch is the HC Chatham Campus Correspondent. She is a junior at Chatham University double majoring in Creative Writing and Journalism and double minoring Graphic Design and an Asian Studies Certificate. Indigo is a writer and Editorial Assistant at Maniac Magazine and occasionally does book reviews for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She is also the Public Relations Director for The Mr. Roboto Project (a music venue in Pittsburgh) and creates their monthly newsletter. During her freshman and sophomore year, Indigo was the Editor-in-Chief of Chatham's student driven newsprint: Communique. Currently, on campus, Indigo is the Communications Coordinator for Minor Bird (Chatham's literary magazine), the Public Relations Director for Chatham's chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, and a Staff Writer and Columnist for Communique. She has worked as a Fashion Editorial Intern for WHIRL Magazine, and has been a featured reader at Chatham's Undergraduate Reading Series and a featured writer in Minor Bird. She loves art, music, film, theater, writing, and traveling.