When life get hectic and we don't have enough time in the day to get everything done, how do you feel?  Are you anxious, frustrated or overwhelmed?  Well, as you know here at The Happiness bucket I like to give you tools to help you reduce and eventually eliminate those feelings and replace them with calm and happiness.  So I'm going to help you out!  Lets talk about the Get Things Done Challenge, because it will help you identify and prioritize all the things you need to do to get things done.  You will find areas where you can batch your to do's and even find ways to delegate tasks to other people.
<h1>The Steps to the Get Things Done Challenge</h1>
For those who are new to this, the challenge is set up to hold you accountable.  To make you think through what you have to do, write it down and take action.  This is how it works:

1.  Number a piece of paper (or your spreadsheet for you techy's) using the number of days in a month (i.e., November has 30).  So using this example your page should be numbered 1 - 30.

2.  On each of those lines identify something you need to do.  Make your holiday card list, Wash the car, clean out your purse, make the Thanksgiving menu, take items to goodwill, read a book for a bookclub mtg, etc.

3.  On November 1 (or whatever day you start the challenge) you are to take a photo of your list and post it in the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChangeAcademy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">group</a> with #gtdchallenge.

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4.  Each day, you should complete at least one thing on your list and post in the group what you completed (note:  if it is a personal task, just say I completed task number 3 today!) I would love for you to take a photo of the completed task (if that is possible) and/or list how it made you feel to have it done. Remember to use the #gtdchallenge.

5.  On November 30 (or whatever day you end the challenge) share a summary of how the challenge helped you.

If these tasks are things for the house, I would encourage you to incorporate the entire family.
<h2>Identifying the Challenge Goal</h2>
The goal of this challenge is to get you used to taking action, even if it is small action.  I don't want you to panic if you don't finish your whole list the first time.  Next month just move any items you haven't completed to a new list and pick additional items so that your list totals the number of days in the following month (i.e., December has 31 days).  You continue this through to the end of the year and if you decide to keep the list you can see what all you accomplished throughout the year...but ummmm lets discard it at the end of the year.  Seriously, no need to hold on to clutter.

n the process of developing the list.  It's also okay to put fun stuff on the list, I mean all work and no play makes you well...not so much fun LOL.

Get creative.  Enjoy yourself and see how much you can accomplish!