Set Your House in Order Before You Criticize the World

About self-awareness and humility

Lukas Purba W
2 min readDec 6, 2024
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Personal chaos leads to external frustration.

When our lives feel disorganized or out of control, it’s tempting to direct our dissatisfaction outward — blaming others that are little to no correlation with your problems such as societal structures, politics, or other people.

Order cannot be born from chaos, it needs an intelligent mind to set it in order, and you are the intelligent mind of your life. God gave us free will to think and make the correct judgement.

This is how on how to organize your life

A. Identify Personal Chaos
Take inventory of your life. What areas feel disorganized or neglected? Let me summarize it into 8 things

  1. Intimate partner
  2. Family
  3. Friends
  4. Job or a career
  5. Use your time outside works productively
  6. Treat yourself physically and emotionaly (health, not hedonism)
  7. Engage in broader community
  8. Continually educate yourself and develop skills

Are you lacking in one of these ? Go fix it

B. Prioritize Small, Achievable Goals
Begin with manageable changes, like organizing your living space, sticking to a budget, or establishing a consistent routine. Small wins build momentum and confidence.

C. Take Responsibility
It might be others fault, but the one who can make the change is you, take action, take responsibility, do not blame, find excuse, or justifying it. be humble and take your own accountability.

D. Develop Consistency and Discipline
Building a “perfect order” isn’t a one-time task — it’s a continuous process. Commit to regular reflection and adjustments to maintain progress.

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