139 - How I lost 80 hours in 2 weeks and what I did to survive

Organize 365 Podcast

Lisa Woodruff

Lisawoodruff, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 21 December 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Listen to how being organized, and living an organized life allows you to be more productive, and be able to handle those unexpected emergencies and events that come into every person's life. Change is inevitable. Unexpected events are going to happen. They are a guaranteed but they're unexpected.

A few weeks ago, I had a series of events happen in a matter of just two to three days that cost me 80 hours out of the next two weeks of my life. Some of these were good changes. Some of these were bad changes. And all of them were unexpected.

I'm going to walk you through that 16 days, how these events unfolded over that time, what ended up getting sacrificed out of my schedule, and how I got back on track.

So what did I do?

#1 - I managed my expectations.

#2 – My systems are rock solid.

#3 - I used my phone for almost everything!

#4 - I remained calm so that the kids and Greg remained calm too.

So this getting organized thing, it's a big deal. It's a really big deal. It has a huge impact, not only on your space and how your space looks, but your ability to drop everything and take care of your kids or the people that you work with so that they can go and grieve or do what they need to do, and you can pick up the pieces and not be a hot mess or all stressed out about it. It's important for your marriage if you're married. The more organized you are, the more time you have for those people that you love and for yourself.

The quickest way to get to a productive life is to get your home organized. Join me in the 100 Day home organization challenge and let’s do this!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio.
0:10.0	I want to help you get your home organized and help you organize life stages and
0:15.6	unexpected events. So sit back, relax, and let's get organized. This podcast is all about how I lost 80 hours of time in two weeks and still managed to stay on top of things.
0:30.0	Today in the podcast, I'm going to share with you how being organized and living an organized life
0:37.1	allows you to be more productive and be able to handle those unexpected emergencies and events that come into every person's life.
0:46.2	Change is inevitable.
0:48.3	Unexpected events are going to happen.
0:50.8	They are a guaranteed, but they are unexpected. We don't know when they'll come, how
0:57.1	they'll come, how long they'll take, and when they will finally go away, but we do know they will come.
1:05.0	A few weeks ago, I had a series of events happen in a matter of just two to three days
1:11.0	that cost me 80 hours out of the next two weeks of my life.
1:15.0	Some of these were good changes, some of these were bad changes, all of them were
1:20.1	unexpected. I'm going to walk you through that 16 days, how these events unfolded
1:26.3	over that time and what ended up being sacrificed out of my schedule and how I got back on track. Now the irony of this is that as it was
1:36.3	happening I was super excited to share this information with you on the
1:40.1	podcast both to show you how much easier it is to handle the unexpected
1:44.9	when you're organized and I want to help you with the everyday processing that I
1:50.3	need to go through on a consistent basis to re-priorize what I do in my schedule.
1:56.0	I figured the best way to show you that was to actually take you through these weeks in my life. Being organized means you can handle a lot more uncertainty
2:06.0	without as much drama and stress.
2:09.0	Ironically, as I'm recording this,
2:11.0	I've had another unexpected event happen in our life.
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