Organize 365 Podcast

I want to help you how to have your most productive Fall ever. Make sure you listen in for the KEY concept to ensure you successfully increase YOUR productivity! In the last week weeks, we have reviewed how you can work on decluttering, organizing, and increasing productivity. If you need more information on the basics of these three steps, I cover them in detail in Podcast number 144, 145, and 147. Fall can be the MOST productive time of the year, if you are prepared to take advantage of the September and October energy. On the podcast today, I explain how I have increased my productivity over the last seven years. I have analyzed how I have improved my skills over the years and I give you the steps to help you improve your productivity. I will show you how to gain control of your life and achieve your goals, especially in the areas of Family Finances Home Self I want you to improve your productivity so you can get traction on your goals. I want you to succeed at transforming your life so you can focus on your unique purpose. Let's start TODAY!

I am grateful that you are reaching out to share your stories and progress with me and with the Organize 365 community. On Wednesdays, we will be sharing the challenges, progress, missteps, and triumph of women just like you who are progressing along their organizing journey. If you are ready to share your story with us, please apply here. I promise, I'm not scary and it's just us talking! Today, Lorie G shares her journey of getting organized after a flood. I am humbled and honored to have been part of her journey. For more information about the programs and products mentioned in this podcast please check out these links: Organize 365 The Sunday Basket 100 Day Home Organization Program ALL ACCESS Workboxes Paper Organizing Retreats I look forward to helping YOU get Organized!

As I tell you all the time, getting organized has 3 steps - decluttering, organizing, and increasing productivity. Today on the Podcast, I deep dive into productivity. If you don't move forward into organization and productivity, you can end up stuck on decluttering and get rid of too much. Increasing Productivity Today, I answer your questions about productivity including: How do I maintain an organized home? How do I maintain an organized closet? How do I keep up with daily tasks? How do I keep my car cleaned out and ready to go? How do I keep the kitchen clean during the week? How do I keep up with home maintenance tasks? Increasing organization and productivity give you more time. Time to follow your dreams and try new things! What do you want to have time for in your life? If you have been around here for more than a few days, you know I love teaching you how to be more productive! Thank you for submitting your questions. Keep making progress! If you are ready to share your story of success with Organize 365, you can apply here to be my special podcast guest.

I am grateful that you are reaching out to share your stories and progress with me and with the Organize 365 community. On Wednesdays, we will be sharing the challenges, progress, missteps, and triumph of women just like you who are progressing along their organizing journey. If you are ready to share your story with us, please apply here. I promise, I'm not scary and it's just us talking! Today, Sandy O shares her journey of getting organized. I am humbled and honored to have been part of her journey. For more information about the programs and products mentioned in this podcast please check out these links Organize 365 The Sunday Basket 100 Day Home Organization Program ALL ACCESS Workboxes Paper Organizing Retreats I look forward to helping YOU get Organized!

As I tell you all the time, getting organized has 3 steps - decluttering, organizing, and increasing productivity. Today on the Podcast, I deep dive into organizing. Sometimes, people get stuck in decluttering mode and get rid of too much instead of moving forward in the cycle. Organizing is matching like with like and then ensuring everything has a home. Today, I answer your questions about organizing including: How do I get organized when I don't have enough space to sort, group, and categorize my stuff? How do I get organized if I don't have a traditional storage area like an attic, garage, or basement? If I am in the 100 Day Home Organization Program, and I am "falling behind" (PS - there is NO falling behind when you are getting organized!), how do I know if I should keep working in an area or move along? How do I handle items if I'm on the fence about keeping vs discarding? How do I make sure I get the most important areas of my home organized efficiently? If you have been around here for more than a few days, you know I love teaching you how to get your home and paper organized! Thank you for submitting your questions. Keep making progress! If you are ready to share your story of success with Organize 365, you can apply here to be my special podcast guest.

As I tell you all the time, getting organized has 3 steps - decluttering, organizing, and increasing productivity. Today, I deep dive into changing your mindset to get better at decluttering so you can move towards a more organized home and life. I teach you how to adapt your thinking in order to be more successful in your decluttering. I answer your decluttering questions including: How do I stop bringing things I don't actually need (like those pesky just in case items) into my home? How do I get rid of the clutter associated with all the projects on my to do list? How do I keep book clutter under control without having to eliminate my entire TBR pile? How do I follow through with my decluttering plans and actually get stuff out of my house? What is the thing that is holding me back from getting rid of things I no longer want or need? And, at the root of all of this, how do I move from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset? I am here to help you get your home and paper organized in one year with functional systems that work. I help you figure out what questions to ask yourself to get some of your most difficult clutter out of your home and move towards a more organized life. I share some of my own challenges in clearing out my house. I also teach you how I was able to adapt my thinking to move me towards the organized and productive life I am living today. I look forward to helping YOU get Organized! :)Lisa

So many of you asked me to create a virtual Embrace experience. I carried you in my heart the whole time Embrace was going on. And I kept thinking ... How could I do that? I thought and puzzled and then puzzled some more. And then I did it! Listen in to the podcast this week to hear the Embrace attendees telling you about THEIR experience at Embrace and THEIR transformations. Including: Doing what you need to do to make your family better Overcoming fear and guilt Repairing a broken marriage Depression happens, but you will get through it A mindset shift from feeling like you are drowning to learning how to relax and let the next thing come How to create a life purposefully and want the best for YOU - not just everyone else We are all more alike than we are different Dumping the guilt and not looking back It's ok to be single Grieving the loss of what you thought your life was going to look like You are not broken You are WORTH IT! It is ok to accept the love you are given without trying to "pay it back" And then consider experiencing Embrace for yourself in our new "Embrace the Journey Bundle". We even created a custom Organize 365 puzzle just for you to work as you puzzle through your own organizational transformation. You can check out the whole bundle here.

I've been thinking a lot lately about both the present and future of Organize 365. I wanted to fill you in on everything that's been going on here at Organize 365. That's right, we've got lots of exciting things happening including an awesome book tour following the release of my new book that's hitting the market in August 2020! So, if you're dying to hear more, tune into this podcast episode to discover everything you need to know about the big things that are coming to Organize 365 very soon! The Evolution Of Organize 365 Sometimes, I have to really give myself a pinch when I look back at what we've accomplished to date with Organize 365. Setting out with the goal of helping people to organize their lives has inspired me in so many ways as I've moved forward on this journey. Visions happen when you take the right steps to make them work. You've probably heard me say that before, but it's so true! Hiring a team gave me time to launch this podcast as a free learning resource followed by lots of amazing products that I'm extremely proud of including the Sunday Basket, 100 Day All Home Program, Paper Organizing Binders, Workboxes and lots of great Masterclasses, too! Along the way, we partnered with other professional organizers all over the United States in our Certified Sunday Basket Workshop Organizer Program. Most recently, we came out with the Kids Program, which is a digital course designed to walk your kids through all sorts of skills they need for organizing their bedrooms, clothes, backpacks, and whatever else they manage to bring into the house! With such a great choice of products and resources available, I feel like this leg of the journey has come to an end. We have all the basics needed to help you organize your home, develop your organizational muscles, and keep it going. So, it's time to move onto the next thing! NEW Book Coming Soon! Did you hear? The Paper Solution will be published by Putnam Books next summer! Since launching my business back in 2012, my vision of what I wanted Organize 365 to become has developed into something more than I could ever have imagined. My ideas continue to be crazy exciting, not just for me, but hopefully for you guys, too. One of my biggest visions I have had was to become a traditionally published author and have a national book tour. My main vision with this new book is to take the message of paper organization NATIONAL. In America, so many people are fooling themselves into thinking we're a paperless society and we're not. You can have less paper, but you're probably not paperless. The Paper Solution will help people from all over the country get their paper organized. My Dream For The Book Tour You might not know this about me, but I've always wanted to have a book tour. I don't know how it's going to go or where I'm going to go just yet, but I can promise you this – I am going to have the book tour to end all book tours! If I could have my dream book tour, I would spend 12-14 days in a different part of the country every month for eight months. I know it might sound a little crazy, but that would be my dream. In the first leg of the tour, I'd hit the West Coast and do morning TV, book signings at Barnes & Noble, and attend a few paper organizing retreats hosted by the certified organizers. Tune into the podcast to hear about all my dreams! Are You Dreaming? I bet you are! As you take back the organization of your home, you start to realize how much control you have over your space, your energy, and your time. The next step – to dream about the next thing you want to design and put your time and energy into... Are you ready to take back your home? Registration just opened for the fall round of the 100 Day Home Organization Program. We would love to have you join us! Have you been *thinking* about becoming a Certified Sunday Basket Workshop Organizer? Registration is OPEN today through July 28! Already IN the 100 Day Program? The new Fall Planners and Planning Day are ready for you in the Shop! Sign up for one of the last Paper Organizing Retreats Lisa is doing in Cincinnati. September, January, and April are all open for registration. Enjoy the last full week of July! View the full post here: https://organize365.com/certification-update/

Learn more about the Organize 365 Kid's Program here.

Have you ever wanted to make a behavior change to your personal or professional life? Maybe you want to start eating healthy, pick up a new hobby, or live a more organized life. Whatever your "big change" is, there are five simple steps you can take to help conceptualize lasting and impactful changes to your behavior. All these steps are outlined in the Transtheoretical Model, a biopsychosocial model that incorporates five sequential stages to help you modify your behavior long-term. If you're anything like me, you probably freaked out a little bit with the mention of the Transtheoretical Model. I mean, it sounds so serious. Thankfully, I know just the person who can help break it down for you into bite-sized chunks that you can follow and apply to your own life. Meet Rachel Miller Kroouze, a Health Communication and Education professional with experience in health and prevention programming. Rachel has always been interested in health communication and helping others make positive health behavioral changes. She's also an organizer at heart and has a lot to say about the Transtheoretical Model and how it can fuel positive behavior changes in just about anyone. So, if you want to make some impactful changes to your personal or professional life using a tried and tested method with a proven track record of life-changing results, dig in! Stage 1 – Precontemplation The precontemplation stage is when you don't have any foreseeable intentions to change within the next six months. This is the very first stage of the Transtheoretical Model and you might not even notice you're in it or have been in it in the past. You might have a few habits that aren't doing you any favors. You continue to do them because you aren't aware of the consequences. You're probably not even aware that a problem exists and if you do, you're ignoring it. Or, you might have even tried to put a stop to them in the past but failed and continued along the same path. Thinking the classic "failure is inevitable, so why try?" is a common thought to have when you're at this stage of the process. Stage 2 – Contemplation Ah, contemplation… an inner epiphany in which you finally start to think about change. This is when you know you need to make a change to your behavior and fully intend to do so within the next six months or so. To move from precontemplation to contemplation means something sparked you to put this goal to change on your radar. Maybe your doctor told you that you needed to make lifestyle changes for your health. Or, perhaps your home has run out of storage space and you realize it's time to declutter and get organized. A wake-up call has happened and now you're asking yourself what you should do next to address the problem. You begin thinking about what action you need to take, and you may spend weeks or even months hanging out in this contemplation stage, which is totally normal. Stage 3 – Preparation When you move out of contemplation and into preparation, you're ready to make a change. You know that you've reached a crossroads and you can't linger in the middle forever. You need to move forward. The only thing stopping you is figuring out how you're going to do it and what action you're going to take. So, it's time to make a plan of action. If you're trying to organize your paper or get fit and healthy, for example, this is when you prepare and get yourself ready. You may want to learn how to get organized across the board, in which case the All Access Membership may be for you because it gives you EVERYTHING you need to get your home and paper organized in 365 days. But, if you want to focus on something more specific and keep most of your organizing to one day of the week, the Complete Sunday Basket System may be more to your liking. Take your time and have a look through our different offers to find what works for you. What's going to help you make the behavioral changes in your life that you desire? Once you can answer that question, it makes the preparation stage so much easier. Rachel and I are both huge fans of the Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies Quiz, where you'll discover whether you're more of an upholder, questioner, obliger, or rebel. Understanding your tendency and how to leverage it to your advantage is a great way to help you find ways to plan for action, make better decisions, and meet your own expectations. Stage 4 – Action The action stage of the Transtheoretical Model is when you're in the process of making behavioral changes with your actions. You've made different modifications to your lifestyle and are trying to turn these into habits that will soon become second nature. The strength of action comes from the preparation stage. So, if you've prepared well enough, you'll be more than ready to take some action and make the necessary changes in your life that you know you need to make. Action is when you've convinced yourself why this is something you need to change and act on. You've prepared yourself, done the research, got all the approvals, everything is in line, and you're ready to do the thing! Remember that action includes making modifications as you go. Nothing is set in stone. If you find that something isn't working for you and you want to change it, do it. Stage 5 – Maintenance Once you reach the final stage, you're maintaining the changes for a prolonged period of time. You've been working hard to sustain the behavior change and as the months go by, you're working to prevent a relapse. The more you do something, the easier it becomes. As you develop new behaviors, the initial resistance you felt at the beginning gets lower. You start to see the benefits of what you're doing, and you'll be even happier with the decision you've made. Maintenance is the stage we all aim for when we set out to make a positive behavior change in our personal or professional lives. If you find that you make your way through these steps, only to find something that didn't work for you or maybe you've "fallen off the wagon" and are right back at the first step again, don't be too hard on yourself. Each time you climb up the staircase, you build upon it. You've been there before, and you know where the squeaky step is. You know what not to do and you know what you need to change in order to make it this time. And you WILL make it! Rachel is a member of the Organize 365 Facebook group and we expect a lot of interesting conversations to come from this episode of the podcast (and blog post) so if you want to talk to her more and get involved with the discussion, join the Facebook group – we'd love to hear from you! View the full post here: https://organize365.com//transtheoretical