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Organize 365 Podcast

227 - Having An Adult Spring Break

Organize 365 Podcast

Lisa Woodruff

Lisawoodruff, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Spring break isn’t just for kids. Adults need a breath of fresh air every so often to recharge their batteries and diminish work-related stress and anxiety.

Taking a spontaneous break isn’t something I do very often, but the more I live a truly organized life, the clearer I can see the patterns of how to breed more productivity in organization and a large part of this is taking the time to relax, unwind, and de-stress.

My impromptu adult spring break adventure began a few weeks ago without me even realizing it until I was mid-way through the week!

I share my story on this week’s podcast episode and it begins with replacing the windows in my home. I know what you’re thinking, what does something as mundane as windows have to do with spring break? As it turns out, deciding to upgrade my windows kick-started a week of relaxation and organizing because it gave me the opportunity to take some time off work.

Upgrading Our Windows

Greg and I had been thinking about moving for some time, but we finally decided against it and focused on renovating and upgrading our current home instead.

Our old wooden windows were once the envy of the neighborhood back in 1986. But that was over three decades ago and they are no longer functioning.

The entire process took three days. Although this didn’t bother us much, our dog Hunter wasn’t pleased since he had to get shipped to doggy daycare until the workers were done.

Even though all of this work would be going on in the house, I knew I couldn’t take a break from my work schedule. However, I also knew that the workers would be replacing the windows in both of my kid’s bedrooms and trying to walk through the room to reach those windows would be almost impossible!

There was one clear solution – I had to take a break from work (if only for a few hours) and clean my kids' rooms so the workers could cross the threshold to reach the windows.

Cleaning & Organizing The Kids' Rooms

Since both of my kids are teenagers and their rooms are more like mini apartments than bedrooms, let’s just say that I don’t go in there very often!

But on this occasion, I didn’t have a choice. I took the morning off work and assigned myself an hour and a half to clean each room. I stuck to my schedule and finished both rooms on time, but when I finished cleaning, I didn’t feel like working.

If you know me, you’ll know that I always feel like working. However, Monday passed, and then Tuesday came and went, and I still didn’t feel like working.

My Adult Spring Break

By the time Wednesday arrived, it hit me. I had scheduled my own spring break! Granted, most of you probably would prefer to go on a sunny vacation for spring break, and the idea of cleaning your kid’s rooms and organizing the inventory sounds like work. But for me, it’s heaven!

I spent a large part of my spring break creating and organizing my Household Reference, Household Operations, Financial and Medical Binders. I even revealed how I arranged them and I also recorded a podcast series that you can listen to on The Sunday Basket Podcast.

When I wasn’t organizing my binders, I was out shopping with my family and getting things done that I usually didn’t have time to do.

Finding The Time To Organize

We all live such busy lives that it can be challenging to find the time to organize anything. The more I started to think about a week-long adult spring break, the more I was convinced that this is something I’m going to do every year.

My Sunday Basket and 100 Day Home Organization Program with 100 Day Productive Home Planner saves me a minimum of five hours per week. It helps me to organize and plan by season – which is much more practical than planning for the entire year in advance because life always gets in the way of our plans.

By planning your schedule every 100 days, you can carve out pockets of time for yourself so you can spend your time wisely and get more done.

Find out how you can live a more organized and happy life by joining us at the Organize 365 National Convention. It’s going to be an awesome experience and I would love to have you there. Grab your tickets here before they sell out!

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. I'm your host, professional organizer, productivity expert and motivational speaker Lisa Woodrow. organizational create lasting functional organizing in your home. I have so much to share with you, so

0:25.9

let's get started. The more I live a truly organized life, the more easily I'm starting to see the patterns of how I do, what I do, breeds more productivity and organization. So a few weeks ago we got new windows and doors and if you've been following me on social media or if you're in any of my programs where I do my Monday night Facebook live, you have heard

0:54.2

about these windows and doors.

0:56.1

I just kind of have to laugh at myself because I remember, you know, in my 20s and 30s when people

1:01.7

would say they were getting new windows and I would be like why

1:04.8

first of all why would you spend that kind of money like I did the math it's going to take you

1:10.4

10 years to recoup your investment in saved electrical costs like are you even gonna still live there like didn't even seem like a big a good financial investment to me

1:20.0

furthermore they're windows you know how many trips we could go on when you buy windows?

1:24.8

Like what a big expense for something that's so boring. Well, now that I'm 46, windows can be really

1:31.6

exciting. They're really exciting. Like I didn't even

1:35.0

realize this but as the installers were putting them in the next day after all the

1:38.4

windows were in they said didn't you notice how much quieter your house is? I was like

1:41.9

my house is quieter. I had no idea. And I got the kind of

1:47.4

windows that I always wanted in my 20s and 30s that you could flip in both the top and the bottom so that you could clean the

1:54.5

windows top and bottom inside without going outside. So exciting. Ask me how

1:59.3

many times I've cleaned my windows in the 22 years we've lived here? Yeah, two. So just in case you're

2:05.6

wondering it's a nice feature. I'm not saying I'm going to take advantage of it. But

2:11.2

I really enjoyed getting these windows and doors. I have really enjoyed with Greg the

2:17.8

household projects that we've been doing a little last year, a little this year, we'll do a little

2:21.6

bit more in the fall.

2:23.1

When we made the decision we were not going to move, well we were still deciding if we were

2:27.6

going to move or not, we realized that some things would have to be fixed no matter what.

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