Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional

organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio. I want to help you get your home

organized and help you organize life stages and unexpected events.

So sit back, relax, and let's get organized.

Welcome to Week 2 in the productivity series.

All right, last time I told you that you need to slow down in order to speed up.

We need to slow down, think about how we're spending our time, think

about the things that are filling our time, and order our tasks so we can do task

stacking in order to speed up the productivity that we have.

I also talked a lot about how you need to be proactive in taking charge of your productivity.

If you are reactive, if you are responding to life, you will not be productive, you'll be following somebody else's agenda for your life.

The only way to achieve your own goals is to become proactive with how you spend your time. So along those lines I want to talk

about what does productivity look like, like why do we want to be more productive

anyway? Because if all you're doing to be more

productive is to cram more things into the day, you're going to end up even more

tired, more exhausted, and more frustrated because the bottom line is you are never going to finish your

to do list. I've tried. I don't know anybody that's ever finished their to do list

ever and anybody who has I remember I did once in the summer of 2001 while we were waiting for the adoption of our second daughter, and then we got her.

And then the to-do list has never been finished again.

So my to-do list was done for a couple of days in my entire life.

Like it's just not realistic that your to-do list is going to be 100% completely done.

And I remember being frustrated about that. I spent years and

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