282: Making Plans or Making Excuses?
A Slob Comes Clean
Dana K White
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
There’s a fine line between trying to think through a process and trying to come up with reasons why it won’t work. There’s a fine line between planning and coming up with excuses. Action is key, and it’s through action that we end up figuring what works, what doesn’t, and how. And it’s ONLY through […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hi y'all, it's Dana. If you're listening to older episodes, I am coming to you from the future. |
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| 1:02.3 | Welcome to AslabcomesClean the podcast. I'm Dana K. White. I blog over at aslabcomesclean.com. |
| 1:08.9 | That's where I share my personal deslabification process. As I figure out ways to keep my own |
| 1:14.4 | home under control, I share the truth about cleaning and organizing strategies that actually work in |
| 1:19.4 | real life for real people, people who don't love cleaning and organizing. Thanks for joining me |
| 1:24.5 | today. This is podcast number 282 and I'm calling it Making Plans or Making Excuses. |
| 1:34.4 | And how often there's just a real fine line between making plans and making excuses. |
| 1:40.4 | And it is something that those of us who have project brains, which I've talked about a lot before, |
| 1:47.0 | tend to fall into, we think we're making plans, but we're actually just making excuses. |
| 1:53.6 | And that is because we are trying to figure everything out first, like figure out how it's going to work, |
| 2:01.2 | how it's going to play out. I mean, honestly, I feel like that's the vast majority of books. |
| 2:09.3 | I mean, the vast majority of reviews on my books are, I mean, they're like 4.7 stars, |
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