Life can be overwhelming and unpredictable.
You play many roles. Parent. Child. Sibling. Entrepreneur. Employee. Boss. Colleague. Friend.
Whether you run a business, a family, a household, your own life, or all of the above, you’re the CEO, Chief Marketing Officer, and Head of Operations.
As if that weren’t enough, you must maintain your health and fitness, make time for friends and family, and tend to the daily chores of life.
Then there are creative projects and hobbies.
How do you keep yourself from spinning out?
How do you organize all of your many hobbies and projects, roles and responsibilities?
How do you manage the information you take in and the ideas you generate?
How do you keep track of your necessary tasks and actions so that things don’t slip through the cracks?
The Limits of Most Organization Systems
Modern productivity systems offer many different systems for this: from to-do lists to complex “second brain” systems, planners and organizers.
But even if where these frameworks succeed at helping you organize your tasks and information, they don’t tell you how to organize your time.
With so many competing responsibilities and roles, how do you know where to direct your focus at any point in time?
A System to Organize Your Ideas, Information, and Time
What if there was one system that could help you organize your life: your roles and responsibilities, your ideas — and your time?
What if there were a system that helped you place your various roles and responsibilities into clear categories and told you what to focus on in any point of time?
There is a system that can help with this. It’s been around longer than anything modern productivity “experts” are offering. It’s proven and it works.
It’s called the House system, and it’s part of the framework created by ancient astrologers.
A Precursor to the Wheel of Life
If you’ve ever filled out a “wheel of life,” this is the original “wheel of life” framework: a circle divided into 12 sections, with each section representing an area of life.
Unlike a modern “wheel of life” framework, which might assign spaces on the wheel in random order, ancient astrologers organized the areas of life in a specific sequence.
Houses that sit across from each other relate to each other.
Houses that sit at certain angles to each other also have relationships.
You can use the House divisions as the basis for any type of organization system, whether you’re following David Allen’s Getting Things Done, Tiago Forte’s PARA method, Tony Robbins’ RPM method, or any other framework.
The framework of the House system works for organizing your ideas, your files, your information, your roles, and responsibilities.
Unlike those other systems, however, it also gives you a framework for organizing your time.
The House system gives you a map of your life that you can use in connection with observable phenomenon.
How to Use the House System to Stay Organized and In Time
The House system tracks to the map of the zodiac, so that in your chart, every sign correlates to a specific House.
As the sun, moon, and planets cycle around the zodiacal wheel, you can map their positions to see where they are in your chart by House position.
On the most simple level, following these transits tells you where to focus.
The sun will cycle through one house a month, directing your focus to that area of life for a particular month.
As planets travel around the sky, they also bring focus to an area of your life. Faster planets will pull focus to an area for a few weeks.
Slower planets will pull focus for years at a time, albeit with less intensity than a shorter transit.
When planets congregate in a House, that’s a sign to direct more focus there.
The moon will cycle through all 12 houses in each month, giving you approximately 2.5 days per month to give a little more focus to each house — a great way to ensure that nothing falls through the cracks.
In this way, the movement of the sun, moon and planets therefore acts as a type of “cosmic clock” that tells you when to focus on each area of life.
You don’t have to “believe” in astrology to use this system. It’s a framework that relies on following observable phenomenon in nature to a map of your life.
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