Here are 15 mini ways to get your life together and fix your routine, habits, home, and everything that needs a reset.
Every once in a while, I get a strong urge to get my life together immediately.
I feel the need to create a better routine, exercise regularly, clean every corner of my room, drink more water, and read a self-help book that will change my life.
Naturally, this usually results in me doing absolutely none of those things.
When your life is messy, trying to fix everything at once usually makes it feel even messier.
But the key to making a real difference is to fix a few small things that have been quietly making your days harder.
This has been my recent approach to fixing my life whenever I find it too scattered, and it’s been working beautifully for me.
So, in this post, I am sharing all the mini tips with you.
If you’ve been feeling scattered, behind, unmotivated, or simply a little all over the place, here are 15 mini ways to start getting your life together without turning it into a tiring project.
15 Simple Tips For Getting Your Life Together
1. Fix one little area that’s annoying you every day
Don’t start by deep-cleaning your entire house.
Find the one little area you interact with every day that has been driving you slightly insane.
Maybe it’s your bedside table covered in random things, or the chair where clean clothes have been living for two weeks.
Maybe it’s your overcrowded bathroom counter, or the kitchen drawer that gets stuck every time you open it.
Give yourself twenty minutes and fix it properly.
Throw things away, put everything back where it belongs, wipe the surface, and make the area easy to use again.
Fixing one area won’t magically organize your entire life, but every time you use that space afterward, things will feel easier than before.
And sometimes, that’s enough to keep you going.
2. Make a ‘things hanging over my head’ list
This is different from a normal to-do list.
You have to sit down and write every little thing that’s been quietly bothering you, like:
- Book the dermatologist appointment.
- Return the package.
- Reply to a tricky message.
- Cancel the subscription.
- Buy new toothpaste.
- Send the document.
- Fix the broken button.
- Transfer the money.
- Change the bedsheets.
Basically, if your brain whispers about a task, “Oh god, I still haven’t done that,” put it on the list.
Then choose just three of the tasks on the list to get done this week.
It’ll be incredibly satisfying to remove some of the unfinished tasks that have been following you around for months.
3. Give yourself a bedtime alarm
Most of us have an alarm telling us when to wake up, but somehow we’re expected to magically know when to stop watching television, scrolling, or cleaning the kitchen at night.
If you also struggle to go to bed at a fixed time, then do this.
Set an alarm for the time you need to start getting ready for bed (not the time you should already be asleep).
When it goes off, that’s your cue to wrap things up, wash your face, brush your teeth, put the phone away, and start slowing down.
You don’t have to obey the alarm perfectly every night.
But having a signal that the day is ending is much more useful than looking at the clock at midnight and regretting your evening.
4. Decide tomorrow’s three priorities before bed
If you always wake up with many things competing for your attention, then decide what matters the night before.
Every night before bed, write down the three things you most need to get done tomorrow.
Your list might look like: Finish the presentation, do a workout, and go grocery shopping.
That will be your basic mission for the day.
You can obviously do more if you have time, but these three things come first.
Your brain will find this approach way better than waking up, starting a huge to-do list, and feeling behind before you’ve even had breakfast.
5. Create one default meal for chaotic days
Meal prepping is good and all, but not when you are just starting to get your life together.
If you can create one or two meals you can make without thinking, that would help a lot.
It can be eggs and toast, a simple rice bowl, pasta with vegetables, a sandwich and fruit, or yogurt with granola and berries. Whatever works for you!
Keep the ingredients around as much as possible.
Then, when you’re tired, busy, or uninterested in deciding what to eat, you already have an answer.
Decision fatigue is real, and having a few boring-but-good defaults can make everyday life way easier.
6. Put one annoying task on autopilot
Look for something you repeatedly forget or procrastinate on and see if you can remove yourself from the equation.
Here are a couple of ideas:
- Put recurring bills on autopay.
- Set a monthly reminder to clean something.
- Subscribe to an essential you constantly run out of.
- Create a recurring grocery list on your phone.
- Schedule your next doc appointment before leaving the clinic instead of telling yourself you’ll call later.
If something needs to happen regularly, your memory shouldn’t always have to make it happen.
So, this is a good way to stop using precious brain space to remember the same boring things over and over again.
7. Get a ‘put away’ basket
This is one of my favorite tricks for those weeks when your house seems to explode slowly.
Keep a basket somewhere central.
And whenever you find something that doesn’t belong in the room you’re currently in, put it in the basket instead of letting it sit there indefinitely.
Then, once a day (or whenever the basket starts getting full), walk around the house and put everything back where it belongs.
It will prevent random objects from getting on every flat surface you own.
On super chaotic days, having all the mess in one basket will really help you feel put-together.
8. Have a ten-minute closing shift
At the end of the day, set a timer for ten minutes and reset your space for tomorrow.
Put dishes in the kitchen, throw away rubbish, and put clothes in the laundry basket.
Clear your desk, refill your water bottle, and put the cushions back where they belong.
Don’t turn it into a full cleaning session. When the timer ends, you’re done!
I love the idea of thinking of this as a closing shift because you’re basically doing your future self a favor before shutting the day down.
Waking up to a tidy space will make your mornings feel so much better than having to look at yesterday’s chaos.
A tip totally worth adding to your ‘get my life together’ plan.
9. Have a personal reset day before you need one
We sometimes treat resets like something we need to earn after a particularly bad period, when really, doing them regularly can stop things from getting big in the first place.
Every couple of weeks, have a mini reset.
- Change the bedsheets.
- Do your laundry.
- Tidy your room.
- Restock your everyday essentials.
- Cook something decent.
- Go for a walk.
- Take a long shower.
- Wash your hair properly.
- Clip your nails.
It’s basically like doing maintenance on your life.
Don’t wait until everything is falling apart to decide you need to take care of yourself. The present you deserves love and care just because.
10. Check your bank account once a week
Avoiding your finances does not make them more relaxing. But of course, you don’t want to stress yourself about them every day either.
So, pick one day every week and spend ten minutes checking your money.
Look at your account balance, scan recent transactions, and pay anything that needs paying.
See how much you’ve spent, and make sure there aren’t subscriptions or charges you’ve forgotten about.
You don’t need to build a financial spreadsheet unless that’s genuinely your thing.
Just know what’s going on with your money, because trust me, personal finance feels much scarier when it’s vague.
But even when the numbers aren’t exactly where you want them to be, just knowing what they are gives you something solid to work with.
11. Pick up the easiest workout routine you can
On my best days, I can pull off good workouts for months straight. But when I am resetting my life after a bad phase, it’s hard to move even for a minute.
Still, your body needs movement.
It’s the best (and kinda important) way to get your energy flowing both inside and outside.
So, get yourself out of the all-or-nothing mindset and pick up a very simple workout routine.
Commit to 20 minutes of active walking, or a 15-minute stretching routine every morning. You can do at-home walk workouts from YouTube, or do just 15-minute HIIT workouts every evening.
If you have a gym membership, just show up for a treadmill walk. Put yourself in that environment for a few minutes.
Whenever your mind and body are ready for it, feel free to level up the intensity and duration.
But for now, go easy and show up every day. You’ll feel like a champ.
12. Delete five things from your phone every day
Digital clutter is still clutter, and considering how obsessed we all are with our phone, it probably weighs on our mental energy more than the physical clutter.
So, do this.
Every day, while you’re waiting for your coffee to brew or sitting somewhere with two spare minutes, delete five things, like:
- Screenshots you don’t need.
- Duplicate pictures.
- Random downloads.
- Apps you haven’t opened in a year.
- Emails you’re never going to read
- .Notes that made sense to you in 2023 and now look like coded messages.
Deleting five digital things is a small enough task that you’ll actually do it.
And if you keep going for a month, that’s at least 150 unnecessary things gone from your phone without ever having to dedicate a full noon to digital decluttering.
13. Give yourself one life-admin hour every week
You remember the ‘things hanging over my life’ list from tip number 2? Well, this is a tip in continuation of that once your life has some stability.
Once a week, sit down with your ‘things hanging over my head’ list and get through as many of those boring tasks as you can in one hour.
Reply to emails, book appointments, pay bills, fill out forms, make returns, update something, and order the thing you’ve needed for three weeks.
Put on music, make yourself a drink, and get it over with.
I do this religiously every week, so I know how helpful it can be.
Just one hour of life admin will keep the extra tasks from leaking into every other day and making you feel like there’s something you should be doing.
14. Keep a running ‘need to buy’ list
Stop trusting yourself to remember that you need shampoo when you’re standing inside a shop surrounded by countless other things.
Keep one list on your phone called Need to Buy.
The second you notice you’re running low on toothpaste, add it.
If you need batteries, add them to the list. Need dog food? Add it.
You need new socks because three pairs have mysteriously disappeared? Onto the list.
Then check the list whenever you’re going shopping or placing an order.
This sounds almost too basic to mention, but systems like this are what make your life more organized.
You’ll stop realizing you’re out of something at the exact moment you need it, and will always have the small basic things you need every day.
15. Fill up a water bottle and keep it next to you right now
I am ending the post with my most favorite tip, and also the easily forgotten one.
As soon as you’re done reading this, walk into the kitchen and fill up a water bottle (doesn’t have to be new or fancy; an old one will do just fine).
And then keep it close to you all day. Sip from it regularly while you work, scroll, or think.
Then tomorrow, fill it up again and keep refilling and sipping.
Water is the basic thing our body and mind always need. The better your hydration is, the calmer, healthier, and more energetic you will be.
So, really, this is the least and also kinda the best thing you can do to get your life together.
Simple, cheap, healthy, and worth doing!
You Don’t Need to Fix Everything at Once
I think that’s the biggest thing I’ve learned whenever I’ve gone through one of those I desperately need to get my life together phases.
The temptation is always to go big, and maybe that works for a few people.
For me, getting my life together usually looks much less exciting (which is what I’ve shared in this blog post), and it works.
So if you’re currently looking around at everything you need to fix, don’t make yourself a life makeover plan tonight.
Choose one mini thing from this list, and do the rest later.
P.S: Deleting five things from your phone is always a good and easy place to start. You can do it right now. Just saying!
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