268 - YOUR Why: WHY Are You Thinking About Getting Organized Now?

Organize 365 Podcast

Lisa Woodruff

Education, Self-improvement, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

There are 4 main categories of reasons why people decide to get organized. In this episode, I walk you through the main reasons to help you find YOUR why.

Unpacking your why will help you stay motivated and keep your eye on the prize when you get stuck in the day-to-day of your organizing.

Which of these four reasons for getting organized resonates most with you?

I got caught up in the hype of New Year's resolution or the Marie Kondo Netflix series.
I'm tired of feeling behind and reactionary.
I'm looking for my home to be a restful haven.
I want to break a family cycle of disorganization.

Every reason has its trouble spots to overcome. If you jumped in spontaneously, the beginning is fun and easy, but then you find an area that requires more thought or doesn't fit the model, and you get stuck. Dig into another reason to continue organizing. If you're reactionary, there will be a period of time in which you feel like you're going backward. If you didn't have a model of organization growing up, it's probably going to take a little longer to learn the skill of organization.

Be sure to take (and print) pictures of your progress too! It's hard to see your progress when you're so close to your home. Taking a step back and comparing before and after photos will help you see the progress.

I don't want to see you give up! Figure out your why and hang onto it when you feel discouraged. What will getting organized allow you to do or be?

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0:00.4	Nancy gives us the mailbag for this week. The thing I'm finally embracing and I thank you for
0:05.9	this completely is a change in mindset and I'm not exactly sure how you phrased it but space is
0:12.0	more important than the stuff without value or purpose. Thank you for all your encouragement,
0:17.6	podcasts, information and mostly for letting us know we are not alone and the only ones who need
0:23.3	help with clutter and organizing. If you have an organized 365 success story, share it with us.
0:30.4	Send us an email at Lisa at organized365.com and tell us how you've taken back your home,
0:37.1	your paper and your life.
0:44.6	Welcome to the organized 365 podcast. I'm your host, professional organizer,
0:50.4	productivity expert and motivational speaker Lisa Woodruff. This podcast will help you embrace
0:57.4	progress over perfection and create lasting functional organizing in your home. I have so much
1:04.2	to share with you so let's get started. Today in the podcast, I want to go over the four main reasons
1:13.0	why people decide they are ready to now get organized and in unpacking each of these reasons why
1:20.2	you've decided to look into or you've started your organizational journey. It will help you with
1:26.4	how to maintain your motivation going forward and keeping your eye on the prize. So often one of
1:32.8	these four things I'm going to mention get you started in searching for or trying another organizational
1:39.1	product in order to get your life more organized but as you get going and as you get started and you
1:45.9	get into the day-to-day of really trudging through making the decisions and working out the
1:51.3	organizational process, we forget why we got started and we easily slide back into not doing
1:58.2	any organization whatsoever or it seems harder than it needs to because now we're doing organizing
2:05.2	for organizing sake versus why we got started. So I love for you to identify with one of these four
2:11.6	and maybe there are four beyond here that I haven't noticed that you can tell me about all
2:16.0	address and another podcast. I'm going to go from the most like spontaneous oh overnight I decided to
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