Organize 365 Podcast

I talk a LOT about saving your memories. And while I tell you to save your memories in blankets and photo albums, I have not given you a resource to do so. Until today. I am SO excited to introduce you to  Once Upon A Time Creation . Jen Anderson has created a beautiful line of keepsakes that can be created from your storage room treasures. Check out my favorites in this week's blog post . What tr...

How will you get your storage area organized? Lots of boxes eh? I'm teaching you how to go through those boxes, how to get them organized and how to set up the storage space. I'm going to review 4 spaces within the storage area; seasonal, baby, photos, and random. The First step is always to take one box upstairs into your kitchen and empty the box completely.  Disperse Now that you are comfortabl...

The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan is the book that has helped me the most in achieving increased productivity. Using the focus question, "What is the ONE thing I can do, such that by doing it, everything else will become easier and unnecessary?" I prioritize my day on a continual basis. In this podcast you will hear: Why I prioritized a nay over recording this podcast. How extraordinary...

The audio book version of The Mindset of Organization is finally here!! I hope you enjoy these sample chapters today. You can get a free audible copy of The Mindset of Organization and start a free 30 day trial at Organize365.com/audible

Listen to how being organized, and living an organized life allows you to be more productive, and be able to handle those unexpected emergencies and events that come into every person's life. Change is inevitable. Unexpected events are going to happen. They are a guaranteed but they're unexpected. A few weeks ago, I had a series of events happen in a matter of just two to three days that cost me 8...

I'm sharing what I like, don't like and why I think that this book doesn't work for American women. Talk about a controversial statement, I know, but I think "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" does not work for the majority of American women. Marie and I approach organizing differently based on our ages and countries of origin./p> There a few things that I do like about Marie's book. I love t...

When your family gathers together for the holidays this year, bring out your memory boxes! Organizing old family memories, treasures, photos, and memorabilia is time-consuming and hard emotional work. Why not involve the whole family this year and conquer a few boxes at the same time. Pull out all the photos. Grab a few boxes of photos and let you family enjoy them, unorganized and all. Enjoy shar...

For many of us, it is relatively easy to let go of inexpensive items of clutter that we no longer love and need. As you progress through your home decluttering/organization journey, you will naturally start to question why you are keeping items of greater value. For many of us, the act of collecting is fun. As children, we collected Beanie Babies, Happy Meal toys, and rocks. As we age, the desire...

I always thought that I divided my calendar into three separate years because I was a schoolteacher or because I had children. But the more I talk to women without children who work 9-to-5 jobs, the more I find that this way of looking at the calendar actually rings true for most women. In this week's post, I will walk you through how I organize my calendar three times a year, and how each time bl...

Match your holiday gift to the recipients "love language" and give clutter free gifts this holiday season. Have you heard of the 5 love languages? Understanding how we give and receive love helps us make more meaningful purchases and give gifts that will be used and appreciated. The five love languages are: Quality time Acts of service Touch Gifts Words of affirmation In this week's blog post, I h...

It is so easy for us to start organizing ourselves and start making progress. Then we look at our spouses and notice that they have not made the same progress we have made. We want them to be doing what we are doing. However, they need to see a few more things from us before they're ready to jump on board. Here are the steps: Husbands are looking for you to be consistent. Your husband is looking f...

Just as there are 4 phases of life that I identified in the Mindset Of Organization Book, these 3 phases of parenting all need different organization as well. The more you understand where you are in life, the more successful you will be at finding and implementing the organization you need to make your life function better. Parenting Stage 1: 0-6 years old – You Do It All The first stage of paren...

Almost all sports involve special clothing, equipment and leaving the house. Even walking my dog! Here are 8 steps to get your sporting equipment organized and have everything you need – when you need it! Get a bag for EACH sport and each person. Create a custom checklist for each bag. Buy MORE of anything you can! Keep the sports bags and uniforms in the car, garage or laundry room. Stocked "Mom...

You only have 24 hours a day. The only way to get more time is to eliminate tasks or get help doing them. I know this is a hard concept for some to embrace. The idea of paying someone to do something you CAN do is a big mental mindset shift. By PAYING for a task to be done by someone else you are saying. I can't do it ALL. This is important enough to me at this time to make sure it is done and don...

Boys have fewer categories of "toys" but more pieces and parts than girls. The key to having an organized boy's room is to buy organizers specifically designed for each of their precious collections. Understanding how boys go from toys to collections will also shed some light on the husbands and fathers in your life.  

Our natural inclination is to want to organize someone else or dive deep into organizing our "passions." The easiest way to actually GET ORGANIZED is to go through your home in a logical progression starting with one room and slowly working your way through the whole house. But we get stopped by wanting to organize family members or jumping into the deep end with Passion Projects. Everyone has 1-3...

Today's podcast came from a reader's submission, "Now that I no longer have kids' schedules dictating my time, I have no clue how to start planning MY time." I find this is SO true. When I have very little time, I manage my time and tasks well. When I feel like I have "all the time in the world," I waste almost all of it. In this podcast, I am diving deep into how we look at the time we have and h...

Basements and storage areas are the easiest places to hide treasures we aren't sure if we still want and items we don't know how to properly get rid of. Today, I am revisiting this space with more ideas to help you tackle your storage monster. And with the winter holidays just around the corner, I have a challenge for you and some tips on scaling back and organizing your holiday decorations. You c...

This summer, I took the 10 Weeks To An Organized Move blog series and organized it into a free eBook resource. This is now located in the Productive Home Solution

Once you have your tasks divided out by type, then it's time to find new pockets of time to accomplish your to-do list! Here are 10 ways I have been able to find more time in the last 10 years: Watch less TV. Limit my time on social media. Turn off my phone notifications. Shorten the amount of time I spend straightening up in the morning. Smoosh household tasks together. Skip household tasks all t...

Once you have streamlined and moved most of your household tasks to large chunks of time in your calendar, you can now start to use 5 minute snippets of time to knock off some of the repetitive routine tasks on your list. This opens up more valuable chunks of time to get done bigger - and more valuable - projects.    I know it sounds kind of counterintuitive, but if you are always doing little tas...

All work is NOT created equal. Before you listen to the podcast this week, make a giant list of all the tasks you want and need to get done. Then listen in to discover how to re-organize your to-do list to get the most done. There are 4 kinds of tasks that end up on my to-do list.  Here is a brief synopsis of each one: 1. Ideas - Oh boy, do I have a BUNCH of ideas! Instead of putting my ideas on m...

Checklists save time and sanity! In this podcast I am going over the checklists I use for monthly tasks and remembering one time yearly to do's.   All the posts in this series will be linked at  www.organize365.com/ product ivity   See my specific checklists here:  http://organize365.com/ checklists/

The Mindset of Organization: Take Back Your House One Phase at a Time has launched on Amazon. This book will help you identify the phase of life you are in, and will help you to learn the skills of organizing that are needed at that level. I look forward to helping YOU get organized!

Step 2 in becoming more productive is to take your Sunday Basket to the next level. This is part two of Sunday Basket 2.0     It's time to add some planning time to the Sunday Basket. Once you have all your actionable to do's chosen for the coming week, group the tasks that make sense to do together. Like all the errands.    Then using the Sunday Basket planning printables decide which days you wi...