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Speaker: [00:00:00] Hello, hello
Speaker 2: everyone. Come on in, come on in for our bonus day four session of the breathing room challenge. I'm so excited for today's session with you because we're going to be going over exactly how to finally stay organized
got my water, my banana. It's been a busy day today. I had a, I had a doctor appointment this morning. And then, as I've been saying all week with my kids, with the summer school and the summer camp thing and having to pick them up and take them from one to the other, it's been, and it doesn't seem like it would be that much time, but it has definitely been.
Like it's taking an hour and a half out of the middle of my day every day. And when you couple that with this challenge, it's just been, it's been a little busy, a lot busy, very, very busy. So, all right, I'm going to do one more thing. Hello, [00:01:00] Karen. I'm going to pull up the captions, not the captions, the comments, make sure I can see them.
Speaker: Oh, there we go. I'm glad I got them.
Speaker 2: All right. So we're going to get into it. So welcome to our bonus day four of the breathing room challenge. Today is all about getting organized and staying organized.
Now, just as there has been every day of the challenge, there's going to be time for a Q& A session at the end. Go ahead and close some of your extra tabs, put your phone on do not disturb, and commit to showing up here for just a little bit. Speaking of, my phone needs to go on do not [00:02:00] disturb because my notifications will go off nonstop.
And as always, take a screenshot, send me a DM on social media, tag me at the Maximizing Mama. I would love to hear your breakthroughs and your takeaways and how this challenge has gone for you. I would love to hear your favorite part and what you feel like is going to make the biggest difference in your home.
So yesterday you learned the two decluttering stages that make it super easy to purge. And clear away all of your excess clutter. And you also learned exactly where to start decluttering and how to continue making progress. Just like you're peeling back the layers of an onion. Today you will learn the organized trifecta method for getting organized and staying organized.
And you will learn my secret to staying organized, calm and relaxed, even during the hardest, busiest season of my entire life. So go ahead and tell us in the chat if you want to be more organized, if you want to feel [00:03:00] like you have it all together, like you're calm and peaceful and relaxed, no matter what life throws your way.
I'm going to pull this up on my phone very quickly. Since I have the comments kind of like normally I have the, uh, the live producer pulled up and then I can see everything that's going on, but I have it closed right now so I can navigate my slides. All right. Now I think we all do. We all want to be more organized.
And that's because being organized is going to help your life run more smoothly because when you're disorganized and you're always struggling to catch up, it feels like. You're just always two steps behind, and that can make it super hard to [00:04:00] enjoy your life. Hi, Sue. And that is the reason why getting organized is a crucial step of the Peaceful Home Roadmap.
It is not something that we can leave out. As we've been discussing the last couple of days, the peaceful home roadmap is a four phase process that will help you really fully master every single home life concept that you could possibly need to do in terms of your entire household from cleaning up the mess and keeping a tidy home, clearing away the clutter, and learning how to let go of your excess stuff.
Getting organized and staying organized, getting your family on board, refining your habits, developing cleaning schedules and routines, and preventing more clutter from coming back in, and being able to maintain a peaceful home for the rest of your life. So each day of this challenge, we have tackled one phase of the peaceful home roadmap.
Days one and two were all about overhauling. Days three were all about [00:05:00] decluttering. Today, this bonus day four session is all about getting organized And then the fourth phase of the peaceful home roadmap, the maintenance phase. That is something that you can learn beyond inside of my course. It's a complete home management system called cluttered to calm.
Now, the truth is the fact of the matter is you can have a tidy, peaceful home without becoming a minimalist. That is something I wish somebody had told me years ago, because I didn't think that it was possible. However, if you want to do that, if you want to clear away some of your excess clutter and still have a lot of your belongings, if you want to do this without becoming a minimalist, the fact is the messes and the clutter will continue to creep back out as long as you feel like a disorganized hot mess.
And that's why phase three of the Peaceful Home Roadmap is all about organizing. This is when you're going all [00:06:00] in on everything that you could possibly need to do in order to get organized and stay organized. This phase is about making your life easier and more effective so you can find what you need, stay on top of everything that has to be done, and keep track of all the nitty gritty information that is required in order to run your household and manage your life on a day to day basis.
So if you have tried to organize your home, I'm sure you know that it doesn't always stay organized. And that's because being organized is a lifestyle. So if you're still leaving things in piles, forgetting to buy milk, or forgetting to do anything, and having trouble keeping track of your to do list, your home will never stay organized because you will always feel stressed and overwhelmed.
And that's why we have the organized trifecta method. It is a framework to help you organize every single aspect of your [00:07:00] mind, your life, and your home. So one step at a time, you will focus on each of these, starting with your mind. An organized mind is how you can keep track of everything and run your daily life with ease.
I didn't mean to use the word life in here. It's organized. It's how you Because organizing your mind is about the things that you're trying to keep in your head. It's about keeping all of that stuff streamlined and simplified. That way you can just run your day to day with ease. Then you move on to the second step of organizing your life.
And this is, this really comes down to your schedule, your to dos, your emails, your photos, and all that other digital information. Then once you've organized your life, then you can start organizing your home. And that is when you're able to easily find what you need. You're, you're systemizing your household.
You're, You're setting things up in, in systems. That's the best way to describe [00:08:00] it. Like if you want to, you know, put your books in the order of, you know, the color of the rainbow, and you want to arrange your things in order and have them labeled and beautiful. So all three of these together, the organized trifecta together, the final goal will give you true freedom from mental, digital, and physical clutter.
And this is the secret to how you can get organized and truly stay organized. Now, I'm going to share with you how you can, the overarching framework for how you can do all three of these, starting with organizing your mind. So in order to organize your mind, you want to start with a brain dump. And that's when you're getting all that shit out of your head.
Every single thing that you're trying to remember, you're dumping it all out of your head. Because the fact is our brains were not made to remember things. Our brains were made to remember our memories. And to literally keep us alive and prevent us, keep us out of [00:09:00] danger, keep us living on a day to day basis and stay safe.
Our brains were not made to remember to buy milk and call your mom and buy cat litter and order groceries and do this and do that. And our brains, there's no possible way that we can possibly remember all of that stuff. So if you're trying to. That's exactly why you feel stressed and overwhelmed and that is exactly why you might be piling things up in your house because your mind is disorganized.
So as an example of this, um, I'll get to that in a minute. So the first step is to do a brain dump and get all that out of your head. When I've done this in the past, It was even having an organized mind on a consistent basis. About once a year, I'll do it and just dump everything out. And it's just insane the amount of stuff that I'm trying to remember.
Then after that, you will categorize all that information from your brain dump into a next actions list. Then you want to have one [00:10:00] spot to write things down. And this is a huge, very crucial, important part of the puzzle. Because if you're, if you're Like I said a minute ago, if you're trying to remember things in your mind, and you're, you also may be writing things down randomly in random spots, keeping track of things that pop into your head randomly, maybe that's on a post it note, maybe you have a planner, maybe you're using the notes app on your phone, and it's just all jumbled, of course you're not going to be able to remember anything, of course things are going to slip through the cracks.
So as an example, From my own to do list, my own, uh, list of things that I need to do on a daily basis. If I were to try to keep all of these things in my mind, I would not be sitting here in front of you today. Um, I need to renew my food handlers permit for my part time job as a bartender. I need to call my pharmacy.
I need to get my [00:11:00] son A swimsuit. He still doesn't have a swimsuit. My youngest son since we lost him in a house fire. I need to, um, I need to call my boss about a schedule change. I mean, there's, you know, 20 different things that I need to do for this challenge and for the doors opening to clutter to calm.
There's so many things I need to do in my business. You know, there's 30 other things I need to do regarding our house fire situation regarding my wound, my dog, the dog fight, buying a new house. You get the picture. So with all of these things, if I just had this stuff wrote down. randomly in 20 different places, that would lead to me literally like spreading water on a daily basis, putting out fires, reacting to things as they come and truly doing things as I remember them.
Like, Oh shit, I forgot. I got to call the pharmacy. Let me do that really quick. Oh no, I've got to call my boss. I was supposed to do that yesterday. And so instead, [00:12:00] when you're during this, during this process, when you're organizing your mind. You need to have one spot to write things down, always, forever, for the rest of your life.
One spot that you can easily reference. every single day. And then from there, you want to have dedicated landing spots for you and your family. And this kind of is the same concept of as having one spot to write things down. If you have one spot in your home, a landing spot where you always put your things, I saw somebody mentioned in the group, having a place to put your purse.
It's the same It's the same concept. If you always put your keys and your sunglasses and your phone and your purse in the same spot, if you always put the mail in the same spot, you will always know right where it is and you will essentially have created a home for it, but you also want to encourage your family to do the same thing.
And then finally, another step of organizing your mind is about developing routines for all the common things that you do each and every week, routines and rhythms [00:13:00] for your planning. Shopping, paying bills, taking medicine, cleaning, etc. And this will take the mental load off of you. This is crucial because your mind is the center of every single thing that you do in your home, your family, your relationships, your work, and your life.
It's the center of it. It is, it is, it's, your mind is what makes everything work. Your brain is. So if you feel scattered, overwhelmed, and defeated, it's It rarely has anything to do with your physical environment and everything to do with your mental environment. And that is because our homes are like a mirror, the way that our homes, the way that we keep and maintain our households is a reflection of how we feel internally.
And so that is why organizing your mind is not just a nice to have thing. It is crucial in order to truly be able to maintain a peaceful home for the rest of your life. Because you can do the [00:14:00] work. You all have been doing some incredible work in your home this week. You've been making amazing progress, and you can continue doing that in your home.
But as long as your mind is disorganized, your house will get cluttered again.
And that's because you're the head of your household. You're the sole contributor for making sure that things are getting done, that the house is clean, the meals are cooked, the kids are bathed, and that everyone is going to sleep at a reasonable hour, even if it's just you and or a partner. You're the one who's making sure that you're going to sleep at a reasonable hour.
So it is imperative that your mind is running smoothly. An organized mind, what you need to know is that it is a very important key to having breathing room. Without it, you will be hard pressed to keep your house tidy. Once you've done that, once you feel like you have organized your mind. Then you're ready to move on to the second [00:15:00] step of organizing your life.
And this comes down to simplifying and streamlining your schedule. This is going to be more so for those who are like me with younger kids, like how I mentioned earlier, like with the. picking my kids up from summer school and taking them to summer camp. I can already tell four days into this, this is not going to work.
And I'm not going to continue letting us do this. Like I said earlier, even though it's been hard because of this challenge, I was just driving back from taking them to summer camp. And I thought to myself, I will not do this next week. So I'm going to have my kids make a hard decision. You do summer camp or summer school, you choose one or the other for the month of June because going and picking them up on a daily basis, it's eating into my schedule and it's making, it's, it's taken away from my breathing room and my peace of mind and it's making it harder on me and going back to what I just said, [00:16:00] I'm, I'm the head of my household.
I'm the sole contributor for making things better. making sure that things get done. If I'm stressed because of our schedule, that's going to seep over into my family. So organizing your life, this is another crucial piece of the puzzle. You need to simplify and streamline your schedule and make sure that it's working for you.
This also comes down to organizing your to dos, managing your projects. And a project is not just Like, a physical household project, I define a project as anything that has more than 2 steps to completion. So, um, uh, let me think of an example off the top of my head.
I'm trying to think of 1 really quickly. Um. Like organizing my kids artwork that has more than two steps to completion, because there's a few things that I need to [00:17:00] buy. I need to, of course, sort through the artwork, decide which ones I want to keep, which ones I want to get rid of. Then I need to organize it based on each child, and then I need to actually categorize and organize everything into individual file sorters.
So they have these little keepsake memento boxes to store all of their artwork and all of their mementos for the rest of their school. Life. So that's a project. It's anything that has more than two steps to completion and I can guarantee that you have dozens of projects going on in your home in your life at any given time.
And so to organize your life, you need to have a way to manage these things easily so you can actually achieve them like you want to. This is also about achieving inbox zero because We all know having 50, 000 unread emails is exhausting and defeating. Just opening up your email inbox and seeing that number there can drain you physically and [00:18:00] mentally and emotionally drain you.
But when you have inbox zero, you can easily stay on top of everything that's coming your way. And it feels so peaceful. And finally, organizing your life is about organizing your photos, your text messages, your voicemails, your mail, your paperwork, bills, recipes, receipts, and on and on and on. It's about all those little nitty gritty things.
Your life, like I just said, it's all those nitty gritty things that you need to deal with on a daily basis. When these areas are chaotic and disorganized, life will feel stressful and that will then be reflected in the shape of your household. Because these areas will never go away. Even if you want to become a minimalist, you still must have a way to easily stay on top of the things that you need to do, buy, call, and make, so you can keep track of everything.
No matter what life throws your way, [00:19:00] an organized life is another very important key to having breathing room. Without it, you will have trouble staying on top of everything that you need to do to fully enjoy your life. So once you've done that, you've organized your life and you've organized your mind and your life, then you're ready to organize your mind.
And I will say very quickly, I'm sorry, let me start that over. That whole sentence came out wrong. Once you've organized your mind and your life, then you're ready to organize your home. And I will say very quickly that you can definitely start organizing your home while you're going through the process of getting your mind and life in order.
But there is a method to the madness. If you are trying to organize your home first, before your mind is organized, your home will not stay organized. So you really want to somewhat follow this process of organizing. First, your mind, then your life, and then your home. So [00:20:00] organizing your home, this is about systemizing your household.
As an example, you can set up a command center. You can arrange your things in order. You can add labels and make these spaces beautiful. And this is also, you can easily find what you need at the drop of a hat and always know right where everything belongs. And I'm not going to get too much into this because you all know exactly what this means.
You know what it means to organize everything. Like the home edit does in these perfectly systemized areas that look so beautiful and pleasing to the eye. That's you don't have to do that if you don't want to, but there are different things that you can do to help you stay organized. And so what I mean by this without getting too much into it is, uh, Like, as I just said, you don't have to arrange your things like the home edit does.
That's just an example. So, you know what I mean? But when I [00:21:00] first started trying to get organized, I learned a life changing process that made it so incredibly easy for me to organize my entire home as quickly as possible. And I'm not going to share it with you today, but it's, um, What it really came down to is prioritizing the areas that were bothering the crap out of me.
That's, that's what it really is. Because, like, as, as an example, when I realized that this needed to happen in my home, my, I still had two kids under three, and we had, Dozens of pacifiers and they were all over our house at any given point. And the problem was that whenever I needed a pacifier, I couldn't find one.
So once I followed this process of organizing the different areas of my home that were important to me and my family, I was easily able to organize those pacifiers and one little. So that way I [00:22:00] could always find one when I needed it. And this really came about because of this method. I teach it inside of clutter to calm and it is, it's a game changer.
So, as I said, you don't have to organize your things like the home edit does, but being able to organize particular areas of your home will give you so much peace of mind and breathing room. You already know the value of having an organized home. And now that you know how the Peaceful Home Roadmap works, you will be able to finally get an organized home.
Once you have overhauled the mess and cleared the clutter, organizing your home will be a breeze. Because by this phase of the process, You will have routines to help you keep the messes at bay. You will have cleared away the clutter. You will have an organized mind. And you will have organized systems for your life.
And that means that your home will finally stay organized. [00:23:00] An organized home is the last piece of the puzzle to give you more breathing room. It is truly like the icing on the cake. And now you know exactly how to make it happen. So what do you think? Do you feel like? This is something that you can do eventually, that you can start working your way to being an unnaturally organized person by organizing your mind, your life, and your home.
Let me know in the chat. The reason today is a bonus day is because this is not something that Any of you need to be, let me, let me take that back. And I don't know, I think it might have been Rose. Somebody in the comments said yesterday that they realized they didn't really have a whole lot of clutter.
For that person, this phase of the process, getting organized, this might be something that you start on very quickly, you know, maybe the [00:24:00] beginning of July. For most of you, This step of getting organized is going to come later. First, you will overhaul the messes throughout the rest of June. Then you will focus on clearing away the clutter over the next three months or so.
And then after that, then you can dive headfirst into getting organized and becoming a naturally organized person. Now I'm going to share with you my secret to staying organized even during the hardest season of my life.
This secret is how I am able to keep a tidy home. Stay on top of the laundry, the dishes, the cleaning, make dinner most nights as often as I want to spend evenings together with my family, prioritize my own needs and goals, work part time and run a full time business with a wound on my foot. blocked arteries and swollen legs all [00:25:00] while recovering from a total loss house fire and trying to buy a new house.
That sentence is literally crazy sounding. I do not say this. I said this the other day. I'm not saying this to brag. I'm saying this because I want you to know that it is regardless of what's happening in your life. You can do this too.
Catherine. Yes, it does sound lovely. Doesn't it? And, uh, over the weekend since work is busy. Yes, I totally understand. That's always a problem when I have these challenges, I'm wondering, should I, should I do the live sessions on the weekend or should I do them during the week? And I ultimately choose during the week because it's easier for me when my kids are in school and summer camp and stuff.
But, um, definitely Catherine, you can catch up on the first three days and follow along with the action [00:26:00] steps. So, yeah, Karen, I've been through a lot, and, and this is just, this sentence right here, this paragraph, is just what's going on, like, right now. So, even with all this stuff, the secret that I'm about to share with you is how I'm able to stay calm and relaxed, and, and just literally enjoy my life.
kickoff party on Sunday, There was a time where I was not enjoying my life. I was not enjoying motherhood. I was so pissed and so angry and stressed and just overwhelmed on a daily basis because of the messes and the clutter and the chaotic lifestyle. And over the years, After trying everything and finally putting all the pieces together, there's truly, like if I had, I would not be able to narrow it down, because of course, [00:27:00] having less clutter contributes to me being, being able to feel more calm and peaceful throughout the day.
But, Last, I think it was a year and a half ago, January, 2022, even after having cleared away all of my clutter, I was starting to feel angry and chaotic and stressful. Not 2022. It was the beginning of 2023. Karen, it's when You were taking place in foundational decluttering. It was at that time. I was beginning to feel stressed and chaotic and overwhelmed again, and I didn't even have any clutter in my house.
And I realized it was because my mind was disorganized. And so I was snapping at my kids. I was, I was just having a really, really hard time at that phase of my life. And it's, it's because My mind was so chaotic and out of control. And so I say all of this because even though clearing away the [00:28:00] clutter has helped me have more breathing room, it's not the only thing.
It's not the only puzzle piece. There's so much here and this that I'm about to share with you right now, this is how I am able to hold everything together, even with a clutter free home. Even with the busiest, hardest season of my life. So my secret, it lies in a project management system because trying to keep track of everything in your head is never going to work because every time you have to stop.
To think about what you need, should, or want to do. It's costing you breathing room and digging into your limited daily decisions. We make on average like 30, 000 conscious, subconscious decisions every single day. Or we don't even realize it. From what to eat, what to wear, Where to walk, which direction to drive.
It's crazy the amount of decisions that we make on a daily basis. [00:29:00] And so that is why if you ever reach the end of the day, and you literally can't figure out what to make for dinner, or if you have young kids, you'll know, like, you can't answer one more question. You cannot tell them why the sky is blue one more time, because you are suffering from extreme, extreme decision fatigue.
And so with that in mind, if you're trying to manage, I need to buy milk. I need to call the pharmacist. I need to buy my son a swimsuit. I need to make dinner. I need to prepare my breakfast for the morning because I have an appointment at 8 a. m. If you're trying to do all of that stuff haphazardly, it's costing you peace of mind and breathing room.
So think about all the things that you do on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Basic morning care tasks. Eating breakfast, unloading the dishwasher, some type of morning routine like devotions, gratitude, prayer, [00:30:00] checking your calendar, your emails, your text messages, social media, working out maybe, or doing yoga or meditating, paying bills, making phone calls, running errand.
tidying, cleaning, decluttering and organizing, going to the grocery store, making meals and or cooking dinner for your family, showering, washing and folding laundry, improving yourself and focusing on your goals and improving your relationships, whether that's with your partner, your friends, your kids, your mom, your dad, any kind of relationship, even your pets that you might have.
All of these things. And this isn't even an exhaustive list, our basic things that we do every single day. So if you're trying to remember all of that, of course you're going to forget things. Let things slip through the cracks, feel like you're spinning in circles, reacting to everything as it happens, putting out fires, and staying two steps behind.
And that is exactly why you have no breathing room. [00:31:00] But when you can put all of those tasks into a simple digital organizing system, you can get things done, stay on top of everything, and improve your productivity. And that will free up your time and your mental clarity to fully clear away the true clutter.
Because as I hope you're starting to see here, when you feel stressed and chaotic and disorganized, you will be hard pressed. To focus on through decluttering and purging and letting go of decades worth of stuff. Like I said yesterday, decluttering is decision making. And like I just said a few minutes ago, we make on average 30, 000 decisions a day.
So if you're trying to make extra decisions as you decide, And try to remember to call the pharmacy, it's that's going to spill over and make it harder for you to decide what to let go of from that pile of stuff on your table. So that is why this all works together [00:32:00] in 1 beautiful home management system.
So let me know if you're ready to have more breathing room in less than 20 minutes. I'm going to share with you your action step for today to help you do this. And this is a bonus action step. You're going to create a simple project management system for yourself. Like I said, a project is anything that has more than two steps to completion.
So this could be, um, let me go back to this list right here. Um,
let's see. Like, If you're running behind on your laundry, and it's just piling up, that would be a project. Uh, if you have a goal to improve your relationships, if, uh, you need to make a phone call, or let's say, as an example, um, [00:33:00] uh, there's like a, uh, what is the word? This doesn't ever happen to me because of our insurance, but like, if there's an insurance charge that you need to dispute.
So you need to, as, as an example, you need to find the statement. You need to call your insurance company and then you need to dispute it. That is a project. Let me look in my own system right here. I'm trying to think of examples that are going to resonate with you all because a lot of my examples are going to be, uh, More in line of having an online business and also having young children.
Um, but to, to name off a few right now, I still need to order our school photos come this year, their spring photos. Um, I need to call the bank and change that my address. I need to, uh, update a [00:34:00] payment, like a credit card on a payment plan that I have. Again, my food handler's permit. I need to record a few videos for my business.
I need to, um, research dark web social security activity. That's an example you all can resonate with. I recently got a new credit card through Capital One. They have that little thing on there where it can show, like, if your social security's been used on the dark web. And mine is. So I need to, I put in here, research dark web social security activity.
Because number one, I need to figure out, like, Who do I call about that? How do I get this? My social security number off the dark web, et cetera. So that's a project. I need to, uh, I think that's it for now. So those are all projects and that's just projects. There's so many other fly around me. There's so many other tasks, daily tasks, calling the pharmacy.
That's not a project. That's a task because it has [00:35:00] 1 step, um, just things like that. And so. When you're able to have a simple project management system to keep track of all these things from the projects to the tasks, that's how you can have real breathing room. Karen, it does sound awful, but I will say to be honest, I figured this is probably been have had happened a long time ago.
I've honestly just never had a credit card until recently. I'm only doing it so I can improve my credit and buy a new house. Um, But, you know, you know, I'm 39 years old. I, it does sound awful and not to, I don't know the word I'm trying to come up with, um,
not to say that this doesn't matter, but I feel like this is probably the case for everyone. I feel like [00:36:00] everybody at some point has had their personal information compromised, even if we aren't aware of it. And it's just something that we're kind of experiencing in this digital information age that we live in.
Diminish, yeah, like I'm not trying to diminish the fact that this shouldn't, of course this shouldn't happen, but I feel like it is happening to everybody. Um, so with that said, if I do figure out, like, how to, like, who to call about this, et cetera, I'll, I'll let you know, because, um, it's just, this is, it's a big project.
It's something that I know will benefit me in the long term. And those, that's one of those things that will fall through the cracks. If you don't have a way to remember these things while you're in the process of taking charge of your home, months will go by where you just feel. chaotic. And that's honestly probably why I never did anything about it [00:37:00] before now, but the reason why it's a priority for me now is again because I need to buy us a new home after losing ours in the fire.
So let's get into how you can do this for yourself. First, I want you to choose an app or a project management system that you will use consistently. I use Notion, but it is very, very advanced. I don't recommend diving into that because It takes, it's got a, a bit of a learning curve. It took me a couple of weeks when I first figured it out about two years ago.
And then even like, it took a lot of playing around with over the years to really be able to use it consistently. So with that said, you don't need to use what I use. You can instead use Trello, Asana, or even the Notes app on your phone. Yes, it's an app, Karen. You can use, all of these are apps, or you can use the, the, [00:38:00] um, the general app that comes on your phone's operating system, whether that's Apple, Android, et cetera.
However, with that said, I don't recommend that you just use pen and paper for this, because this is a system that you will need to update daily. For it to work. So digital is best. I'm a pen and paper girl. I know how it is. I feel like if you really want to use pen and paper, you can do this, but just keep that top of mind that the whole goal is for you to access this on a daily basis and to update it every single day because every single day.
You're gonna be knocking things off this list. So when you research the dark web, so social security activity, crossing it out, and then the day after you cross out that you called the pharmacy, et cetera, et cetera, it's gonna start getting messy and then you're gonna wanna redo it, et cetera. Yes. So that's great.
Google tasks will [00:39:00] work too. Um, I don't know how Google, now that I say that, how Google tasks works because. Let me pull this up and see, because, um, you want it to, again, with the projects having several steps to completion, you want to be able to manage a project easily. If it's just a task management system, sometimes it can be harder to do that.
Let me see if I can figure this out. One thing, this needs to go on my project list, because it's really starting to get on my nerves. I have like McAfee on my computer or something like that. And it keeps changing my browser automatically to like the secure Yahoo browser, but I [00:40:00] don't want Yahoo. And so not only do I not want Yahoo because all of my stuff is inside of Google, I also don't want it because I've noticed that their search results suck.
I literally just searched Google tasks and it won't even bring it up for me. It's, it's showing me Yahoo. It's so messed up. Like, are you freaking kidding me? I'm trying to find this. There's no reason it should be this hard. And, uh, see when I go to google. com and do it. Oh, it's like so easy to find Google tasks, but Yahoo literally won't even show it to me.
So that's a project I need to figure out. How to stop my computer from automatically changing my browser, because I have done it myself and it keeps changing back. So then the next step is to research a different, um, antivirus software that's not going to change my browser for me, because obviously McAfee isn't working very [00:41:00] well.
So when I pull up this Google Tasks right here, I can see that I used this one several years ago. And, uh, that's because I've tried the different systems and apps and everything over the years to see which one I liked best. So let's see. Add a task. Yes. Sue, this is going to work great because when I'm on Google tasks on my calendar, or I'm sorry, on my desktop, you can categorize everything into what's called a Kanban board and it's where everything is grouped.
So, from years ago, I have these different groups of household, admin, planning. Recording because of my business, creating, writing, etc. So I had, like, a group of things that would fall under things. I needed to write things. I needed to record and then household. It says declutter master bathroom, put away Christmas gifts, unpack suit suitcase, things like that.
So, let's see. [00:42:00] Let me open up. a task and see how this will work.
Okay. Yeah. I think it's working just like a calendar. Yes, this is great. So when you're on a task on Google tasks and you click on a three dots, you can click add a sub task, which would essentially turn it into a project. So this is perfect. That's a great example for how you can do this for yourself. Let me get back to my slides.
So I want you to find an app. That you will use consistently some kind of app or. Thing that you can access on a desktop and your phone.
Why are my slides not changing? Okay, then, once you've found this app that you feel comfortable with, you'll brain dump all the things that you're trying to keep track of in your head. Every [00:43:00] single one of them, you're gonna put them all into one list. Like all the things that I was naming earlier, you know.
It could basically be Anything that comes to your mind, you set a timer for 10, 15 minutes, and you just start writing. You just start dumping out your brain, literally every single thing that you're trying to remember. You don't edit yourself. It's no big deal. You're the only one that's going to see this, but you're literally dumping out your brain.
You're getting all that information out because once you're done with that, then you can go back through and edit it as neat. If you dump something out on, out of your brain that says, uh, mow backyard, and then you realize you already did it, you can just cross it out. It's no big deal. So you just want to get all that stuff out of your brain.
And then from there, you can categorize all that stuff into different groups, like things you need to do, things you need to buy, call, make, order, etc. And as a side note, things you need to buy and things you [00:44:00] need to order can be two different categories. Because as I'm sure you know, You can easily order everything you need online, but you may also need to go to a store in town to buy something.
So these are called contexts, and it's the context in which you will be doing these things. If it's a phone call, if you're running an errand, if you're sitting at your computer, etc. So you can categorize all the stuff that's coming out of your brain into these different groups. And then finally, the final step of this process is to check the system every single day to make it a habit and to help you easily reference your literal entire life.
So every single day, whether that's morning, afternoon, before bed, whatever works for you, you're going to pull up this app. And you're just going to scan through it and you're going to process everything like, Oh, I called the pharmacy. So I'm going to cross that off. [00:45:00] Oh, I just realized I need to schedule the lawn service to come mow my yard.
So I'm going to add that here being able to do this. Every single day will give you, I mean, I can't stress this enough. It will give you true, true breathing room because you will have one dedicated place to manage all that nitty gritty stuff. And the, and the, the best part about this is you can literally use this project management system to manage and organize and maintain what you're learning during this challenge.
Yes, Sue, it does. It feels great to cross things off. So that's another reason why it's so helpful to check this every day, because you're not just, let me start over. So you know how sometimes you go to sleep and you're ruminating about all the things that you need to do? Well, that's How this is going to serve you because you're not going to be laying in bed wondering, did I call the [00:46:00] pharmacy?
Did I order my son's swimsuit? Like you're going to know because you're going to have it all right there in one spot that is easily referenced.
And in bed or wake up in the morning and do it and, and literally cross off everything that you did. And what will end up happening is you will feel so motivated and so encouraged to keep going and to keep staying on top of everything. Now, um, in terms of managing what you've learned during this challenge, you can do the same thing.
You can create a little project to overhaul individual rooms in your house. I wouldn't say overhauling your entire home. I wouldn't recommend having that as a project because that is, it has a lot of steps to completion and that would really be comparable to Uh, like, trying to declutter your entire [00:47:00] house, for example, there are so many different steps that would fall underneath it.
Instead, you can just break it up and choose smaller rooms. So 1 project would be I'm going to overhaul my living room over the next week and then underneath that you would have all the steps that you need to do. And you could even break it up based on. The individual spaces of your living room, for example, so let's say.
Your, uh, living room bookshelf is full of homeless clutter. You could write. In your project management system, tackle or overhaul the homeless items on living room shelf, and then it could be, uh, gather the everyday messes from the coffee table and put them away. So that's another step. And then every single day, when you're checking this system of yours, and this app on your phone, you will be able to pull it up.
And what that's doing is reminding you consistently like, oh, I need to overhaul the homeless [00:48:00] items in my living room. I'm going to do that. As soon as I finish eating breakfast, for example, it helps you stay motivated and helps you hold yourself accountable and just feel relaxed. Just knowing with confidence that you have it all together and that you will be able to stay on top of everything consistently, no matter what life throws your way.
So once you've done this, Step three right here is not something that you will clear, obviously need to do making it a habit and checking it every day is something that I just want you to do consistently going forward, but your action step for today is to choose an app that you will use consistently.
And then categorize and organize all of your projects into it. And then that is your homework, your action step today for our bonus day four. And because this is a bonus and because This is so crucial. [00:49:00] This will earn you 60 points instead of our usual 40 points that we've had the first three days of the challenge.
So I'm going to share a little post in the group like we've done all week that says bonus day for homework. You can add your progress photos under a comment. Within this post, and all you got to do is take a little screenshot of, um, this app that you created. Or if you don't feel comfortable doing that, you can just share some details about what you did, uh, the app that you chose the, um, and then a few words about, like, how, how you feel from finally being able to categorize and organize all the things that you need to do.
So you can share that for a chance to win 60 points. So let me know if this sounds like something that you can do. Share, I'm getting organized in the chat.[00:50:00]
Now, so far today, you have learned why getting organized is crucial for breathing room. It's crucial to create breathing room. You've learned the organized trifecta method for staying organized. You've learned how to organize your mind, your life, and your home one step at a time. And you have learned the secret to keeping track of your entire life with ease.
Now, we've covered a lot. During the last four days together, and the good news is that every single thing that we have covered all fits into one simple home management system that you can complete in less than 30 minutes a day. Clutter to Calm is a comprehensive, very robust online course in home management system that covers all of this and more.
It will help you overhaul the [00:51:00] mess, ditch the clutter, and get organized so you can have a calm, orderly home, peace of mind, and hours of free time every single week. And there are step by step instructions for every single phase of the Peaceful Home Roadmap. There's workbooks and resources that suit your learning style so you can easily reference the steps.
as you put this all in place in your home. And there are first class comprehensive lessons so you can follow along for through the entire process as you transform your entire household from messy and cluttered to calm and organized. So as a little bit of a program overview, what's included with this comprehensive course?
We start out with the first phase of the process. This is the foundations. It's the foundations of a calm home. It's the basic knowledge that you need to know to start taking action, such as a lot [00:52:00] of what we've covered throughout this challenge, the peaceful home roadmap, the big three messes, et cetera.
Once you finish the foundations, you're ready to get started on the overhaul phase. And as I said yesterday, you can do this. By the end of June, you can overhaul your entire home by the end of June, because it's not about being perfect. It's about Messes and all the things that you want to keep that are around your house to give you breathing room and peace of mind and sanity.
That way you feel confident to go all in during the third. Let me rephrase that. So that way you feel confident going all in on the decluttering phase. I said third because I saw three right here. The decluttering phase is the second phase of the peaceful home roadmap. And during this phase. You're learning how to clear away and let go of your excess stuff, one layer at a time, just like you're peeling back the layers of an onion.
And we have lessons inside of Cluttered to [00:53:00] Calm to support you with this one step and one layer at a time. There's then once you've done that, then you're ready to move on to the organized phase. So the decluttering phase will take you about three months to clear away the clutter from your entire house.
So at this point, that would be the end of September. By the end of September, you can dive into the organized phase as you follow what we've covered today. The organized trifecta to organize your mind, your life in your home, and that will take you About two months max to fully get organized. completely with your mind, your life, and your home.
So that would be right around the holidays. And then finally, the last phase, the last step of this process is going through the maintenance phase. And this is the phase that you will be in for the rest of your life. And there are lessons to support you with this every single step of the way. [00:54:00] So that way, whether that's next year, five years, ten years from now, if you need to, uh, Let's say your, your, your kids have a grandchild and they're five years old and you want to teach them how to clean up after themselves, you can come back here to this program that you will have lifetime access to, you can reference the maintenance phase, you can go through the lesson and, and fully understand how to.
Teach kids to clean up after themselves, how to get them on board, how to teach them how to declutter. So my point in sharing this with you is that you will be able to use and reference the content in this program for the rest of your life, because managing and maintaining your home is not a one and done thing.
It's something that you will need to do as long as you have a roof over your head, as long as you have a household. And that is exactly what Cluttered to Calm is here to support you and help you do.[00:55:00]
And there are bonuses worth 1, 791 starting with the organized moms toolkit. Sometimes I call it the organized like a pro toolkit, because I know we have women and people in our group that are not moms, so the organized like a pro toolkit, it's going to help you get organized like a professional organizer.
This is what you see here on the left. I'm giving you in this toolkit. All of my digital organizers, like we've been talking about today, all the organized that helped me run my life, my family, my household, and my business, just like a pro organizer. You can see some of them right here. This is notion. This is my.
I think that's my yearly goals right there. Yeah. And this is a cleaning schedule to help me clean, maintain my [00:56:00] cleaning on a daily, on a weekly basis for my entire house. And then this top run right here is my recipe management board. This is in Trello, and this is incredible because when we, I lost all my recipes in the fire.
And I've since learned how crucial it is to have everything digitized. And so I've been putting all of my recipes into a digital recipe book. That way they're easily accessible, even if I'm at the grocery store, even if I'm visiting my dad, et cetera. So I've been putting in dumping a lot of recipes in here.
And this is not the only thing that's included. This is just what I have pictured here. This organized like a pro toolkit has. Lots of digital organizers, as well as a home management binder to help you keep track of every single thing that you need to keep track of on a daily basis, like. What size shoe your grandson wears when you're at the store and you can't remember, ah, is he a size one or a two?
You can pull that up and reference it at the [00:57:00] drop of a hat. Another bonus that is included is a paper, a paper organizing system that I call paperwork on purpose. And this is a training that will tell you exactly how to declutter. Organize and maintain all of your household paper for good. And this is based on me doing the same thing in my home.
Seven years ago, I literally had no clue how to manage my paperwork. So our mail was piling up on the dining room table so bad that the piles were toppling over. And, um, so, and, uh, I realized finally, I was like, this isn't going to work. I need to do something now, like immediately. So I went out and I bought a filing cabinet.
I gathered up every single piece of paper from my entire house. I threw it all on my office floor and I figured it out. I got to work and I figured out how to declutter every single piece of paper, every pile that I had in my entire house, I figured out how to [00:58:00] organize all of it, and I figured out how to maintain it consistently for the rest of my life.
And what I learned during that process is what you will find in this training system, paperwork on purpose. And then finally, we have another bonus that is bi weekly support calls. And this is the game changer. This is the key to making sure that this System and these methods work for you for good this time that you don't ever have to buy another organizing book or download another decluttering checklist ever again, because every other week we meet live on zoom.
That way you can get support and coaching and accountability as you make a change in your household, as you implement all the phases of the peaceful home roadmap and accountability. Overhaul the messes, clear away the clutter, get organized, and create a lifestyle change. All of these bonuses, they work together to make up the [00:59:00] entire program, the entire offer of Clutter2Calm that will literally give you a complete home management system, so you can have full certainty knowing that You have every single thing you need for your entire household to ensure that your household is running like a well oiled machine for the rest of your life.
Everything that is included inside of Cluttered to Calm, including the full course, the bonuses, and the bi weekly support calls, they have a total value of 8, 782. But you can get started today for just 134
and I'm going to share the link in the comments for you to go check it out, where you can get enrolled.
Susan, my grandson has grown and wears a size 17. So funny. [01:00:00] All right, let me pull the comments or another comments the slides back up. So let's get started on our Q and a if you have any questions about cluttered to calm anything that's included. Let me know. I'm going to share a post in the group. That tells you everything that's included that takes you behind the scenes and literally shows you the back end of the program.
So you can see exactly how comprehensive it is and I will also share the link. So you can check it out again if you need to. But if you have any questions, I am here to support you through the process and to help you make the right decision for you now. With that said, if you have any questions about. If you have any questions about the organized trifecta method or about anything that we've covered throughout this challenge, just let me know.
No, Karen, I personally do not. [01:01:00] A lot of people do. Let me start over. Karen asked how to decide how you should let an item go. Do you ask yourself questions about that? A lot of people do. I've seen so many people say on social media, like, these are the four questions you should ask. I think that's ridiculous.
I'm just going to be blunt and honest because
I mean, yeah, you could keep them like posted at the wall on the wall. You could have a sticky note with them, like run through these questions, but it just prolongs the process. And like I was saying yesterday, Karen, I think what's going to help you specifically is to continue taking action and not letting yourself.
overthink the process. So asking yourself questions, a bunch of different questions, or a handful of different questions, is going to cause you to get caught in the overthinking, and that's what we want to avoid. [01:02:00] So I ask myself one question. Do I, I mean, there's a, there's a few options you can choose from.
Is this important to me? That's it. It's one question. Is this item important to me? If it's a yes, Then you keep it. If it's a no, then you don't keep it. There's so many other things of like, uh,
um, would I buy this again? You know, all these different questions of like scenarios that people run through. And I think some of those options can be good, but I also think that you can pick and choose the one that works for you. Somebody shared a comment yesterday. I don't remember who it was and I don't remember what it was.
Um, let me see if I can find it because I remember thinking, Oh, that's a good question. Like to ask yourself during the decluttering process. [01:03:00] Um, let me see if I can find it really quick.
Okay. Yeah, it was Dorianne. If I was moving and I had to pay a mover for this, would I keep it? Um, Or if I didn't have this item when I purchase it now, those are amazing questions, but I feel like for me, and this is why to answer your question in regards to what works for me, I feel like I would not remember those things in the, in the process.
It's so much easier for me to be like, Do I want this banana? I'm kidding. Banana is sitting next to me on my desk and there's not really anything else. I've got the same LOL doll that I've been [01:04:00] talking about for days. Do I want this LOL doll? It's so much easier for me to just say yes or no. Um, with that said, what could maybe be helpful for you is you can make a list of all the different questions that you've heard about.
Like Dorianne said, if I was moving and I had to pay for a mover to move this, Would I do that? That's an, that's an excellent question. And for that, it's either going to be a yes or a no. If you would pay a mover to move this LOL doll, then you keep it. If you would not pay somebody to move it, then you let it go.
Or you could choose, would I purchase this now? Yes or no. Is this important to me? Yes or no. Do I want this? Yes or no. They're really all the same questions, just with different. Raising what I buy this again. Yes, it's, it's really all the same thing, but I think, like I said a minute [01:05:00] ago, I think it's ridiculous to run through a multiple questions because, and it's not just you, Karen, most people that I have worked with over the years, the reason why their homes are cluttered is because they're overthinkers.
And so we want to get you out of that process and have you taking quick, fast action.
For me, the, uh,
Asking if something is important to you. I love that because, um, it really goes hand in hand with my proprietary decluttering method. It's called the clarity method. I think I've shared it with you before, Karen, and it's really about having clarity on which items are important to you and then letting go of everything else.
It's also called reverse decluttering and it's where you're just. [01:06:00] Prioritizing and focusing on the items that are important to you. So you're not rummaging through a desk that's piled with stuff and trying to force yourself to get rid of things. Instead, you're Opening up a drawer, you're separating all the items that are important to you, all the items that you would pay a mover to move for you.
You're separating all those items out, and then every single item that didn't make the cut, you're choosing to get rid of. That's how the Clarity Method works. And, uh, it's just so easy to know if something is important to you. It's a yes or a no. Does anybody have any other questions?[01:07:00]
Oh, you're very welcome. So we're going to be in this community for a couple of weeks together. So 2 more weeks from this Saturday. So, as you continue doing all of this, and really, as you continue letting this all integrate and soak in, and you have a good understanding of how this entire process works.
If any questions come up, you can. Reach out, you can share, you can continue to share more photos of your home. You will. You will have, I will be in this group helping you out, supporting you through the process. And of course we also have a few more, I'm going to be going live a few more times. So I'm going to be [01:08:00] live in here tomorrow at six o'clock to announce our winners. I'm going to be live next week. That was my dog sneezing. It scared me. I'm going to be live next week for a Cluttered to Calm Open House to answer any questions that you all have before the doors close.
So I'm going to be in here supporting you. You're very welcome, Karen. It's been incredible having you guys here. And I'm very, very, very excited to see the progress that you continue making in your home over the next couple of days. I would love to see. Your day for action step and see how you're able to organize all of this nitty gritty information in a little app on your phone, because this is a bonus way to create breeding room that will free up so much mental clarity and peace of mind.
And I can't wait for you to make it happen in your home. Yes. I will put, um, an email and a post in [01:09:00] the group, Karen.
So thank you all again for being here. Share your, um, A little screenshot of what you were able to achieve, and I will talk to you guys soon.
Speaker: Bye!
