12- Clutter Cures: FlyLady's ADD-Friendly Answers to Eliminate Household Chaos
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2013
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Are you living in CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome)? Marla Cilley, the founder of flylady.net, explains the concrete "baby steps" ADDers can take to de-clutter and establish new household routines.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:07.0 | Good afternoon everyone is Susan Cloughin for Attitude magazine. We have a very |
| 0:16.8 | special guest today, the fly lady. Some of you may know or many of you may |
| 0:20.9 | know her. She has over a million followers on her social network and I have |
| 0:25.1 | long been a follower and fan of the Fly Lady's methods for organizing your home. She is the |
| 0:31.5 | founder and the host of her popular website. It's called Fly Lady.net. |
| 0:35.4 | Check it out right away if you haven't yet. And she is sort of a mentor to those living |
| 0:40.1 | in what she calls Chaos, CHAO-A-O-F can have anyone over syndrome and clutter. |
| 0:46.8 | So today she's going to focus on answer your questions about how to grapple with the clutter |
| 0:52.0 | that all of us live with and some of us live with more than others, especially the mom's stay at home or working, but you know dads too who are trying to keep a meat house so thank you so |
| 1:05.3 | much fly lady and we are very happy to have you today. You know we all get |
| 1:09.6 | overwhelmed and you know I get overwhelmed trying something new and, you know, people with A.D. |
| 1:16.0 | They throw the baby out with the bathwater before they ever get started because they're overwhelmed. |
| 1:21.0 | And what I realize myself back in 1999 when I made that New Year's |
| 1:27.8 | resolution that I wanted to get organized I realized that I hadn't been very high to myself. |
| 1:33.0 | So that's when I started taking baby steps to establish a simple routine. |
| 1:38.0 | And my very first place to get started was shining my kitchen sink. |
| 1:43.3 | So that's where I recommend everyone starts. |
| 1:46.5 | And I can hear them now saying, |
| 1:48.3 | but the kitchen is so messy I need to clean it off. |
| 1:51.6 | Nope, we're just gonna to start with the kitchen sink |
| 1:54.1 | and go look at my little shiny thing video |
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