I am Muchelleb, and in this video I wanna share

with you six lists that you can make to feel more organized

and feel more in control of your life.

I haven't really been keeping you guys in the loop,

but I am at a point where I am organizing the hell

out of my life for my own sanity.

I am getting my routines in check.

I am rethinking my approach to my goals.

I am redesigning my space, and don't worry.

There will be videos on all of this stuff.

So if you're not subscribed, you should subscribe.

So in this video,

I am going to be talking about six lists

that you can make to organize your life.

And at the end of the video, I'm actually going to talk

about how you can store your lists

so that they're actually useful to you

because these lists are well and good,

but if you don't use them,

there's no point in making them.

So stick around for that.

So the first list that I have made is

my weekly review slash planning list.

So I may have mentioned before how much

of an impact doing a weekly a review has had on my life.

It's a practice that I've been doing for years now,

and honestly, it has made such a difference

in how I feel every week and how I feel overall.

I have a video on how I used to do my weekly reviews.

It has changed a little bit,

but that video will still be helpful to you.

If you're interested I'll link it down below

and on a card here.

Essentially, what a weekly review is,

is you sit down, you get intentional,

you brain dump all this stuff that is going on in your mind,

you take action on things that you need to take action on,

and you generally just get your life together

in a short period of one to two hours every week.

It can also be a time where you evaluate your goals,

how you did last week,

what you need to be doing more in the future,

and getting a little bit more purposeful

with the way that you're living your life.

Having a little checklist with munchable...

Munchable? (chuckles)

What a word.

Having a little weekly checklist

with really doable, easy, step-by-step tasks

that you can tick off as you go

will increase the likelihood

of you actually doing the weekly review,

and also it'll keep you on track

while you're doing you weekly review

because that's a hard one.

And I promise you, it will help you

to keep your life organized.

Oh, no, this has been opened the whole time!

I'm just gonna close that,

and we're gonna pretend that that has not been open.

Anything embarrassing?

Wicked, I trust you guys.

Having cleaning checklists helps you

to stop being so overwhelmed with cleaning.

And also, it helps you kind of 80/20 your cleaning.

If you're not familiar with 80/20-ing,

I'll have a link to a video here and down below.

But when you get intentional, sit down and write out:

OK, what do I need to clean every day

to feel comfortable and happy with my space?

What do I need to be cleaning every week

to feel comfortable and happy with my space?

There are actually a few lists that you can make

within this one topic, some bonus checklists if you will.

Firstly, a daily cleaning checklist.

There's a website called Unfuck Your Habitat.

They also have a book,

and they have this concept of a 20/10,

so 20 minutes of working on one specific space,

and then 10 minutes of resting.

So they recommend doing at least one 20/10 a day.

Then, there is a weekly cleaning checklist,

so that's vacuuming, mopping, doing the laundry,

that kind of normal stuff.

Then there is the: Someone is coming over.

What the hell do I do?

I need to get this place clean checklist.

I would create your list in order of importance.

That way, no matter how much time you have

until that individual comes over,

you can make sure

that your ticking off the high-priority first

and not concentrating on the little, weird things,

like scrubbing the bottom of a cabinet

that they're not going to see.

The next list is a packing list.

So a packing list is just a big ol' list

of things that you might need to take on a trip

because the worst thing in the world is

forgetting something important like your phone charger

when you go on a holiday.

Now, I have an awful memory.

So, for example, last year I went to a YouTube event,

and I left my phone in an Uber,

and then I left my iPad charger in my Airbnb.

When I went to Europe,

I left my drivers license in Turkey

and my iPad in Santorini.

Thank God, somehow I managed to get these things back,

thanks to the beautiful humans around the world,

but the summary of that story: terrible memory,

which is what led to a second type of packing list,

which is things to remember before you leave

because your memory sucks.

If you have a shocking memory

and leave your possessions all over the world like me,

then you will definitely find this list comes in handy.

The next lists that you should create are

stuff that you do regularly lists.

Someone should count how many times I've said list

in this video. (chuckles)

La-la-la-lists, starting not to sound like a real word.

You know when you say something too much?

So for me, I put together a big list of what I need to do

to get a video done from start to finish,

from the moment the idea comes into my head

to the clicking of the upload button.

For you, this might mean creating a big checklist

of how to put together an essay from start to finish

or how to put together a blog post from start to finish.

So for me, the reason that I do this is

about breaking a big task into baby steps

because we know I love baby steps on this channel.

I do videos all the time,

but I still might get to a point

in the middle of my video creation process

when I'm finished doing my video blabber,

I'm just like, OK, what next?

And you get that fuzzy feeling that's just like,

I don't know how to move forward with this.

And I think that everyone gets that,

no matter what type of project they're doing.

So having a checklist that you can go back to

that sorta takes away that fuzzy feeling

gives you a concrete step-by-step list

of what to do can really push you forward

and make sure that you're always moving

on your little projects in your life.

There is this thing called goal competition

that everyone struggles with.

So for example, I would love

to create a second channel based

on the beginners guide to politics.

I would also love to create a mindfulness course.

I'd love to deep dive

and start doing yoga three times a week.

I have this book that's great on sleeping smarter,

and I wanna go through every single item in that book

and implement all of those ideas into my life.

The point I'm trying to make is

if I actually try to focus on all of the things

that I wanted to do in my life,

I would not accomplish a single bloody thing.

A not to do list is a reminder of the stuff

that you should not be prioritizing,

the stuff that you need

to intentionally disregard in your life.

It's not a list of things

that you'll never devote your time and attention to.

It's the things that you shouldn't devote your time

and attention to right now.

Of course, a not to do list should complement a to do list

of the main priorities in your life at this point in time.

Next up is a before you leave the house list.

So you've probably heard of PKW, phone, keys, wallet,

but you probably haven't heard of PKWSTL,

which is my personal list of things

that I need before I leave the house:

phone, keys, wallet, snacks, tag, lunch.

Every day, I look in my bag,

and I make sure that I have all of those things

before I leave the house.

I literally go over those items.

I don't actually say PKWSTL, to be fair.

I just go: phone, keys, wallet.

Yep, snacks, tag, lunch because without those things,

I'd be screwed in one way or another.

Now, let's talk about how to store

and work with your lists so that you actually use them

because that's the most important thing

at the end of the day,

despite the internal satisfaction

that you get from writing your list initially.

Firstly, keep all of your lists together

in a folder, in a section, in a tag,

in a label depending on what you use.

You should only have to go to one place

to find all of these lists together.

There should never be any hesitation of like,

oh, where did I put that list again?

Because they're all in the same nice,

neat place for you to easily access.

Secondly, they should be easy to duplicate.

So if you are a bullet journaler, you love your paper,

make those lists as possible for you to duplicate

every time you need to use them.

Most of these lists are reusable.

they're things that you're going

to need again and again and again.

So for me, I have an app,

and I have all of my lists in the one place,

and all I do when I need to create a new video is

I will right-click, duplicate list,

retitle that checklist so that it's the name

of the video that I'm creating.

Then I will run through that list one by one.

Same with when I do my weekly cleaning

or when I am packing stuff to go on a trip.

So I use Things 3, which is a paid app,

but I frickin' love it, it is new.

I actually switched from Google Keep

when life just got a bit too much

and I was like, I need a genuine to do app;

however, Google Keep is great, as well as Wunderlist.

I use that for work, and it's awesome.

It has a lot of the functionalities

of Things 3 but it is free.

If you have any other app recommendations for to do lists,

chuck them in the comments below.

I'm sure everyone would want to hear them.

And my third tip for keeping your lists usable is

to now be afraid of changing your lists

because those lists exist to be changed.

I'm constantly changing my lists.

My new video list, when I'm like,

actually, no, I need to do this step over here,

or I need to decide on the thumbnail

before I even start planning the video.

I'm switching things around,

adding new steps all the time

because you're not gonna use lists

if you don't trust the contents of the list.

So you need to be keeping them up to date and relevant.

If you like this video,

you're probably going to like my video