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 six and being more productive.

Now last time we talked, I talked to you that there are four different kinds of tasks that I find personally on my to-do list. There are ideas that I get,

repetitive, easily distractible tasks that I do that are mostly the household tasks, and then

focused work, which is something that I always used to defer and

keep writing from one to do list to the next, and rarely got done.

But once I started carving out time for that focused work, I started to see a lot of progress in my marriage, my family, my house, and my business.

And then the fourth kind of task, which I guess it really isn't a task, but I definitely need to find time for it in my schedule is thinking time.

I need a lot of thinking time, and I need to plan it into my schedule.

Well, you may have been a little bit frustrated at the end of the last

session because while maybe you were able to start tasks stacking those

repetitive daily tasks and getting more done. You may also have been like

great now she told me I need focus time 30 minutes to four hours a day like are you

kidding me I don't even go to the bathroom alone I have little kids and I'm

lucky that I get a shower every day where am I going to find 30 minutes to four hours

for focused work and the podcast today is all about where do you find that time. I am going to

give you ten things that I have done in the last five years that have helped me

and some of them have not helped me get more focused

time and just pick one of these pick one that's how I did it like I pick one I work

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