This week's mailbag comes to us from Vicky via email.

I always appreciate every opportunity to hear your thoughts, especially on the topic of planning,

which I now see is my weak area. In all of the interesting and helpful

information that you shared today, I think that the most significant person I'll take away

from me was that I should limit my focus areas.

I have always been a person who chronically has a growing to-do list.

As a creative idealist, that's Dana White's term, I am always generating massive amounts of ideas, new projects, new organizational systems, new ministries, etc. But working with the Sunday Basket System and

hearing your insights via the podcast and classes has helped me to see that

there is simply no way for me to accomplish all of these

things and that most of these projects shouldn't even be attempted because I

only have one lifetime. However, I am starting to understand that by focusing on very few goals in a limited

time frame I can achieve significantly more than I have in the past. I think this is going to be a game

changer for me. With appreciation and thanks. Thank you, Vicky. Do you have an organized 365 success story. We would love to hear about it.

Please send us an email at Lisa at organized 365.com and tell us how you have taken back your home, your paper, and your life

with Organized 365 Podcast. I'm your host, Professional Organizer,

Productivity Expert and motivational speaker Lisa Woodruff. organizational create lasting functional organizing in your home. I have so much to share with you, so

let's get started. I have often shared with you that decluttering leads to organization leads to

increase productivity it is a cycle that goes round and round and round. You

declutter then you get, then you increase productivity.

I've also shared with you that you need to go through a space three times

in order to achieve maximum productivity or to get all the way through the cycle.

The first time through you'll spend the bulk of your time

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